Category: Biology 11

All classes should have handed in the earthworm, squid, spider and grasshopper labs by Friday, 13 March, before Spring Break.

Also, Study guide 28 should have been handed in.

Complete questions 1-12 in squid lab, as well as chart on back of lab.

Read over entire lab and highlight action items and information items using different colours.

Please omit question #20 (block 2-1). Labs are due the class after the squid lab is carried out.

Be sure to arrive on time for the lab, please!

 

Complete the Annelid dissection lab and submit next class.

Please ensure any late work is handed in by Tuesday next week.

Be sure you are reading section I in workbook and chapter 27 in textbook. We will be covering Molluska next.

Parasitic worms chart is here. Be sure to complete any missing information.

Complete the reading of the lab and notes given in class BEFORE arriving for the lab. be sure you have answered questions 1-14 in the lab analysis section of the lab.

Please find the diagrams from the lab here.

Nematoda video is here.

Annelida video is here.

Please watch the video on animal development:

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/crash-course-bio-ecology/crash-course-biology-science/v/crash-course-biology-115

This will prepare you for the next section we study (chapter 30 in text and Section H in workbook)

Test – Sponges, Cnidaria, Flatworms: 24/25 February for all classes.

Complete the stapled assignment (due Thursday/Friday) and be sure you have completed reading of chapter 26. Begin reading of chapter 27 (we will do 27-2 first (annelida) followed by 27-1 (molluska).

Complete the reading of unit H in workbook.

Complete the chart (or equivalent) for phylum Cnidaria. you can use the notes or textbook. Be sure you have completed the article summary from last day ( glass sponge reefs). Work on 3 of the 4 pages of the stapled handout (sponges, cnidaria).

previously assigned:  p. 560 q. 1-5 in text; p. 563 p. 1-3.

New assignment:  p. 569 q. 1-3

Glass sponge article

All previous late work should be completed and handed in ASAP

BE sure you have completed the chapter 18 review (textbook pages 404 and 405), multiple choice and concept mastery questions.

Complete the case study on vaccines and autism (block 2-1 only).

Be sure all article summaries have been submitted (see earlier blog post for assignment details). The articles include:

Explainer: What is a vaccine?

Vaccines help everyone — even the unvaccinated

Why some people think they know more than vaccine experts

By the numbers: How infectious measles and other diseases spread

Measles can harm a child’s defense against other serious infections

Explainer: What is autism?

Scientists Say: Microbiome

Belly bacteria can shape mood and behavior

Bacteria are all around us — and that’s okay

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/human-genome-recovered-5700-year-old-chewing-gum-180973801/

 

Complete the protist web/immune system handout.