Ms. Ned

Germ Cells in Animation

Honors Students: Answer the questions and turn into the "In" box by Friday!

1. What is the difference between Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes? (2pts)

2. What are germ cells? (2pts)

3. How are bodies of a multicellular organism similar to a highway? (2pts)

4. In your opinion, how do germ cells create organism who are NOT genetically identical to its parents? Explain.( 4pts)

Honors Biology Week 20

Monday

Blood Typing Problems

Body Biography

 

Wednesday

Blood typing Lab

 

Thursday

Guest Speaker (2nd Period with permission slips)

 

Friday

Root Word Quiz 8

Body Biography Assignment

Honors Biology Week 20

Tuesday

Complete Non- Mendelian Genetics Problems

Blood typing

 

Thursday

Root Word Quiz 8

Blood Typing Lab

*Video questions due by Friday*

Phenotypes or Genotypes?

Pick a Video  by Friday please submit the questions to either video.

 

You will not find all of these answers in the video please use any other resources that are helpful to your understanding. (10 points)

1.  How is a genotype different from a phenotype?

2. How is it possible for two brown eyed parents to have a blue eyed child. Draw a punnett square and give the phenotypic and genotypic ratios for the offspring.

3. What are SNPs and why are they important?

4. How might phenotpes be affected by environmental factors?

5. Name and explain 3 environmental factors that could change a persons phenotype.

Honors Biology Week 16

Tuesday

Mid-Term Review

Complete Study Guide

Download Midterm study guide

Thursday

9 week Assesment

HW- Completenew Video by Friday

 

MID Term will be held on MONDAY December 19th (The last day of the year that I will see you guys

*sad face*)

Honors Biology Week 15

Monday

DNA Lab

Wednesday

Meiosis Notes

Friday

Root Word Quiz 7

Mutations and Karyotypes

Glowing Eyes

Questions are due by Friday: (20 point assignment)

1. Why would the scientist propose that the eye spots on a butterfly evolved from legs?

2. When do the patterns on a butterfly start to form?

3. Why did some butterflys have glowing eyes?

4. Research to word "transgenic" and explain how this applies to the video. (5 points)

5. Considering this type of technology exists, what would you like to research about genetics? Why? (Remember think about the future and outside of the box!) (9 points)

Honors DNA Replication PPT

 To review for the Quiz on Thursday! Download DNA Replication Notes

Hot Dog DNA

 

The following questions are due by Friday:

1. What finding was more surprising to you? Why?

2. How does DNA barcoding work?

3. Why would the scientists use mitochondrial DNA instead of DNA from the nucleus?

4. Use the following link to discover DNA barcoding (10 points :

http://www.barcodeoflife.org/

Scroll to the bottom and explore one of the barcoding species projects.

Give at least 3 interesting things that you discovered about this particular barcoding project.

Honors Biology Week 14

Welcome Back! I hope you had a wonderful break. Here is the plan for the week:

Tuesday

Article Evaluation

DNA Relication Notes

Strawberry DNA Lab

All DNA Song videos/mp3s should be submitted by the end of the day!!!!

Thursday

Artical Evaluation

Meiosis notes

Asexual vs Sexual Reproduction

DNA Technology Cloning Notes

***Hot Dog DNA Blog Video Questions Due by Friday 11:55pm ! Feel free to submit via the "submit assignment" Dropbox"

James Watson talks about how he discovered the shape of DNA

As one of the fathers of DNA, James Watson had no clue that he would discover his findings. Research the scientists, Watson and Crick, Franklin, Hershey and Chase.Write a one page reflection about what this talks means to you as a budding scientist. Also how do you feel about Watsons current research? This will be Due Friday November 18th (before Thanksgiving Break)