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2020/2021 AP BIOLOGY
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  • Introductory Material
  • Unit 1: The Chemistry or Life
  • Unit 2: Cell Structure and Function
  • Unit 3: Cellular Energetics
  • Unit 4: Cell Communication and Cell Cycle
  • Unit 5: Heredity
  • Unit 6: Gene Expression and Regulation
  • Unit 7: Natural Selection
  • Unit 8: Ecology
  • End of Year Agenda
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 1
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 2
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 3
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 4
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 5
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 6
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 7
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 8
2020/2021 AP BIOLOGY
  • Home
  • Introductory Material
  • Unit 1: The Chemistry or Life
  • Unit 2: Cell Structure and Function
  • Unit 3: Cellular Energetics
  • Unit 4: Cell Communication and Cell Cycle
  • Unit 5: Heredity
  • Unit 6: Gene Expression and Regulation
  • Unit 7: Natural Selection
  • Unit 8: Ecology
  • End of Year Agenda
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 1
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 2
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 3
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 4
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 5
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 6
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 7
  • AP TEST PREP: Unit 8
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    • Home
    • Introductory Material
    • Unit 1: The Chemistry or Life
    • Unit 2: Cell Structure and Function
    • Unit 3: Cellular Energetics
    • Unit 4: Cell Communication and Cell Cycle
    • Unit 5: Heredity
    • Unit 6: Gene Expression and Regulation
    • Unit 7: Natural Selection
    • Unit 8: Ecology
    • End of Year Agenda
    • AP TEST PREP: Unit 1
    • AP TEST PREP: Unit 2
    • AP TEST PREP: Unit 3
    • AP TEST PREP: Unit 4
    • AP TEST PREP: Unit 5
    • AP TEST PREP: Unit 6
    • AP TEST PREP: Unit 7
    • AP TEST PREP: Unit 8

Unit 5: Heredity

Monday February 1st

DUE TODAY- Chapter 13: Meiosis and Sexual Life Cycles BOOK WORK

Chapters: 13 MEIOSIS AND SEXUAL LIFE CYCLES

Book Power PointClicker Questions

Essential Understanding- 5.1 Meiosis

1) Introduction to Unit 5- Hand Out Unit Guide (print)

2) Watch video: Bozeman- Cell Cycle, Mitosis and Meiosis (video worksheet) (14 min) (print)

3) Watch video: Bozeman- Haploid vs. Diploid (Video Worksheet) (9 min) (print)

4) POGIL: Meiosis (teacher's key) (print)

HMK: Take Progress Check 5.1 on College Board

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Tuesday February 2nd

1) Take Section 5.1 Quiz

2) Quick opening activity- Diploid vs Haploid

Essential Understanding- 5.2 Meiosis and Genetic Diversity

3) Activity: Exercise 3B: Simulating Meiosis- Crossing Over Bead Activity (Follow Along with Bozeman) (12 min) SEND BEADS HOME!

4) Watch: Video - Bozeman: Mechanisms that Increase Genetic Variability (video worksheet) (12 min)

5) Meiosis/Mitosis/Cell Cycle Check In (Key) (print)

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Wednesday February 3rd

1) Meiosis/Mitosis/Cell Cycle Check In (Key) (print)

2) Origin and Evolution of the Ribosome- Read and ANNOTATE! (print)

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Thursday February 4th

PIVOT!!

1) Bozeman: AP Biology Lab 3: Mitosis and Meiosis (video worksheet) stop at 4:15 (print)

3) Mitosis Onion Root Tip Lab Portion 5 min

5) Onion Root Tip Digital Lab Activity (complete digitally)

1) Bozeman: AP Biology Lab 3: Mitosis and Meiosis (video worksheet) start at 4:15 (print)

2) The Sordaria Cross 8 min

3) Sordaria Cross Lab - Modeling Meiosis Lab (print)

  • Sordaria Cross Pictures

Hmk: Take Progress Check 5.2 on College Board (Key)

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Friday February 5th

1) Take Section 5.2 Quiz

2) Get out your annotated reading- Origin and Evolution of the Ribosome- Discuss

Essential Understanding- 5.3 Mendelian Genetic

3) What Was the Ancestor of Everything? 12 min

    • What is LUCA?

    • Review of Protein Synthesis (we will cover in more detail in Unit 6)

    • Central Dogma Explained (6 min)

4) VIDEO: Bozeman- Genotypes & Phenotypes (video worksheet) 13min (print)

5) Go over 6 possible crosses and Hand out Review/Refresher Sheet (print)

6) WATCH: VIDEO: Bozeman- Mendelian Genetics (video worksheet) 16min (print)

7) Practice Problems 1: Basic Mendelian Genetics (print)

8) Dihybrid Cross Practice (complete on notebook paper) (print)

HWK: Start Completing Chapter 14: Mendel and the Gene Idea BOOK WORK (due Thursday February 11th)

Chapter 14: MENDEL AND THE GENE IDEA

Book Power PointClicker Questions

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Monday February 8th

1) WATCH: VIDEO: Bozeman- Probability in Genetics (worksheet) 11min (print)

2) Practice Problems #3: Probability and Stat (print)

3) PRACTICE: Beyond Dihybrids- Using Statistics (print)

4) POGIL: The Statistics of Inheritance (print)

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Tuesday February 9th

-Discuss Assignment for Wednesday

- BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT- parents will need your chromebook

Opening Activity: Varsity Tutors Practice Problems

PEDIGREES.

1)DISCUSSION- Discuss Pedigrees

2) CLASS FUN: Create a Pedigree for you or a family you know (can be from a TV show)

3) PRACTICE: Practice Pedigrees (print)

MULTIPLE ALLELES, POLYGENETICS, INCOMPLETE DOMINANCE, CODOMINANCE, Sex Linked

1) Review Terms

2) WATCH: Bozeman: Advanced Genetics (Worksheet) (print)

3) OVERVIEW PRACTICE: Putting it all Together- Beyond Mendel Biology Corner Practice- Non-mendelian, Multiple Alleles, Polygenics (print)

HWK: All work from today

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Wednesday February 10th

1) Blue People Genetics (article) (print)

2) Chapter 14 Book Work Due Tomorrow

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Thursday February 11th

Today's Bell Schedule:Homeroom: 9:45 – 9:55A Block: 9:59 – 10:59B Block: 11:03 – 12:03C1: 12:07 – 12:37C2: 12:37 – 1:07C3: 1:07 – 1:37D Block: 1:41 – 2:41

Chapter 14 Book Work Due Today

1) Sordaria Group Data

2) Discuss Blue People Pedigree

3) WATCH: Bozeman- Chromosomal Genetics (15 min) and take notes (Worksheet) (print)

4) Practice Problems #4: Pedigrees (print)

5) AP Population Genetics and Evolution LAB (SEND CARDS HOME) (print)

HWK: Complete Statistical Analysis Section with Group Data on Sordaria Lab and complete to page 11 on he Population Genetics Lab

....and Start Chapter 15

Chapter 15: THE CHROMOSOMAL BASIS OF INHERITANCE BOOK WORK (due Monday 2/22)

Book Power PointClicker Questions

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Friday February 12th- NO SCHOOL

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Monday February 15th - NO SCHOOL

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Tuesday February 16th

1) Finish AP Population Genetics and Evolution LAB

Random Groups for today

2) After we finish our lab you can have time to work on Ch 15 and your Progress Check:

-Chapter 15: THE CHROMOSOMAL BASIS OF INHERITANCE BOOK WORK (due Monday)

HWK: Take Progress Check 5.3 (Key)


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Wednesday February 17th

Take Section 5.3 Quiz

Essential Understanding- 5.4 Non-Mendelian Genetics

SEX DETERMINATION

1) Sex Determination- WOW INTERESTING!- Listen/Watch and Take Notes 10 min

2) Dig deeper on ONE thing you found interesting from that lesson and be Ready to Report out tomorrow

LINKED GENES

3) Watch: Video- Bozeman: Genetic Recombination and Gene Mapping (worksheet) (10 min) (print)

4) Gene Mapping Notes (print) and worksheets: Gene Mapping Worksheet (print) (Key 1 , Key 1 #2, Key 2, Key 3)


Remember: Ch 15 Book work due Monday


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Thursday February 18th

SEX-LINKED

1) Sex Chromosomes and Sex Linked Traits Reveiw Lecture (board notes) 15 min (print)

2) PRACTICE: Sex Linked Genes Practice (key front, key back) (print)

3) ​PRACTICE: The Genetics of Blood Disorders – a worksheet with genetics problems that relate to specific disorders: sickle cell anemia, hemophilia, and Von Willebrand disease. (print)


4) With remaining time: Work on Chapter 15: THE CHROMOSOMAL BASIS OF INHERITANCE BOOK WORK (due Monday)

Remember: Ch 15 Book work due Monday

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Friday February 19th

1) Report Out about interesting Sex Determination Tangent Research (From Tuesday)

FRUIT FLIES!!!!

PIVOT Fruit Fly Lab

HWK) Take 5.4 Progress Check and Ch 15 Book work due Monday

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Monday February 22nd

-Chapter 15 book work due

NON-NUCLEAR INHERITANCE

2) Chloroplasts and Mitochondria have their own DNA (2.3 min)

3) Bozeman: Endosymbiosis (worksheet) (7 min) (print)


2) Practice Problems #2: Beyond the Basics (print)

3) Section 5.4 Quiz

Essential Understanding- 5.5 Environmental Effects on Phenotype

Epigenetics- How can Outside Factors Affect the Expression of Genes?

4) WATCH: VIDEO: Bozeman- Epigenetics (Nature vs. Nurture) (10 min) (worksheet) (print)

5) WATCH: Clip (2 min)

6) SIMULATION: Play (Simulation)

7) COMPLETE: Identical Twins and Licking your Rats (digitally on Google Classroom)

HWK: Make sure you have all your work in and your grade reflects that

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Tuesday February 23rd

Chapter 15 Book Work Due

1) COMPLETE: Evaluating your Environment's Impact on your Epigenome (print)

2) Watch Me: Those Darn Hydrangeas

3) Divvy Up and Research: (Summary, Phenotypic plasticity, Mechanism, Benefits, etc)

  • Height and weight in humans ( Liam an Carson)
  • Flower color based on soil pH (SKIPPING)
  • Seasonal fur color in arctic animals ( Shannon, Ally and Kaitlyn)
  • Sex determination in reptiles (Katie and Bella)
  • Effect of increased UV on melanin production in animals (Eliza and Anya)
  • Presence of the opposite mating type on pheromone production in yeast and other fungi (Julie and Veronica)

4) Take 5.5 Progress Check (KEY)

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Wednesday February 24th

1) Section 5.5 Quiz

Essential Understanding- 5.6 Chromosomal Inheritance

2) Complete: Human Chromosomal Disorders (complete digitally on Google Classroom)

3) Review: WATCH: Bozeman: Chromosomal Inheritance (worksheet) (11 in) (print)

4) WATCH: VIDEO: Bozeman- Unit 5 Review- Genetics (worksheet) (20 min) (print)

-reviews what we've done and where we are going (Gene Regulation)

5) Take 5.6 Progress Check (KEY)


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Thursday February 25th

1) Discuss:

    • segregation, independent assortment of chromosomes, and fertilization result in genetic variation in populations

    • pattern of transmission of genes from parent to offspring

    • human genetic disorders

      • nondisjunction

      • mutated alleles

2) Take 5.6 Quiz

3) Take Unit 5 Progress Check

4) STUDY

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Friday February 26th

UNIT 5 EXAM- ESSAY PORTION (KEY)

UNIT 5 EXAM- MULTIPLE CHOICE PORTION (KEY)

HWK: Chapter 16: The Molecular Basis of Inheritance BOOK WORK (Due next Thursday )

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