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2021/2022 AP BIOLOGY
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  • Introductory Material
  • Unit 1: The Chemistry of 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
  • AP Exam Prep
  • After AP TEST
  • 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
2021/2022 AP BIOLOGY
  • Home
  • Introductory Material
  • Unit 1: The Chemistry of 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
  • AP Exam Prep
  • After AP TEST
  • 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 of 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
    • AP Exam Prep
    • After AP TEST
    • 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 January 31st

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 1st

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)

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 2nd

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

2) Mitosis Onion Root Tip Lab Portion 5 min

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

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

5) Pour Plates

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

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Thursday February 3rd

1) Take Section 5.2 Quiz

2) Plate Sordaria

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) Practice Problems 1: Basic Mendelian Genetics (print)

HWK: Finish #6 above and Start Completing Chapter 14: Mendel and the Gene Idea BOOK WORK (due Thursday February 10th)

Chapter 14: MENDEL AND THE GENE IDEA

Book Power PointClicker Questions

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Friday February 4th

1) Complete 6 possible crosses with phenotypic and genotypic ratios

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

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

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

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

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

Homework: the last two worksheets from today (#5 and #6 above)

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Monday February 7th

Check Sordaria

Opening Activity: Varsity Tutors Practice Problems


SKIPPING: POGIL: The Statistics of Inheritance (print) and make sure you're working on Chapter 14

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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Tuesday February 8th

1) Blue People Genetics (article) (print)

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

3) Practice Problems #4: Pedigrees (print)

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Wednesday February 9th

1) Plate Sordaria Cross

2) Bozeman Explains AP Bio Lab 8

  • AP Population Genetics and Evolution LAB

  • Random Groups for today


Homework: Chapter 14 Book Work Due Tomorrow

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Thursday February 10th

Chapter 14 Book Work Due Today

1) Finish AP Population Genetics and Evolution LAB

2) Take Progress Check 5.3 (Key)

Essential Understanding- 5.4 Non-Mendelian Genetics

SEX DETERMINATION

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

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

Chapter 15: THE CHROMOSOMAL BASIS OF INHERITANCE BOOK WORK (due 2/17)

Book Power PointClicker Questions

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Friday February 11th

Report Out about interesting Sex Determination Tangent Research

1) Take Section 5.3 Quiz

LINKED GENES

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

3) Gene Mapping Notes (discuss) and worksheet: Gene Mapping Worksheet (print) (Key 1 , Key 1 #2, Key 2, Key 3)


Remember: Ch 15 Book work due 2/17

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Monday February 14th

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.

Valentine's Party

Remember: Ch 15 Book work due Thurs

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Tuesday February 15th

FRUIT FLIES!!!!

Fruit Fly Lab

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

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Wednesday February 16th

Let's Sort out Lab Coats

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

NON-NUCLEAR INHERITANCE

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

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

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)

HWK: Take Section 5.4 Quiz

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Thursday February 17th

Chapter 15 Book Work Due

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

  • Watch Licking Rats

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

3) Watch Me: Those Darn Hydrangeas

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

  • Height and weight in humans ( Kendall and Max)
  • Flower color based on soil pH (skipping)
  • Seasonal fur color in arctic animals ( Hailey and Jules)
  • Sex determination in reptiles (Bella and Emily)
  • Effect of increased UV on melanin production in animals (Gabby and Tierney)
  • Presence of the opposite mating type on pheromone production in yeast and other fungi (Julia and Maya)

4) Take 5.5 Progress Check (KEY)

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Friday February 18th- NO SCHOOL

Monday February 21st- NO SCHOOL

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Tuesday February 22nd (CALL AND ORDER Fast Gels and Transformation Lab for Unit 6)

1) The Sordaria Cross 8 min

2) Sordaria Cross Lab - Modeling Meiosis Lab

  • Sordaria Cross Pictures

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Wednesday February 23rd (HALF DAY) Back To School Night

1) Section 5.5 Quiz

Essential Understanding- 5.6 Chromosomal Inheritance

2) After Quiz- work on completing: Human Chromosomal Disorders (complete digitally on Google Classroom)

3) Class Data Share out for Sordaria

Homework: Finish Human Chromosomal Disorders on Google Classroom

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Thursday February 24th

1) Finish Research: (Summary, Phenotypic plasticity, Mechanism, Benefits, etc)

  • Height and weight in humans ( Kendall and Max)
  • Flower color based on soil pH (skipping)
  • Seasonal fur color in arctic animals ( Hailey and Jules)
  • Sex determination in reptiles (Bella and Emily)
  • Effect of increased UV on melanin production in animals (Gabby and Tierney)
  • Presence of the opposite mating type on pheromone production in yeast and other fungi (Julia and Maya)

2) Report Out

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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Friday February 25th

1) Research Report Out

2) 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

    • Mitosis and Meiosis

      • differences in mitosis and meiosis

      • differences in meiosis/gamete production between male and females

2) Take 5.6 Quiz

3) Take Unit 5 Progress Check

4) STUDY

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Monday February 28th

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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