Category: Biology 11

Read the textbook (chapter 26) and workbook sections on Phylum Platyhelminthes and record your own set of notes based on the “big ideas” we focused on with previous Phyla we have studied. See the chart(s) that I handed out to you and that you used to organize the information on previously studied groups.

Be sure that all the immune system handouts are now complete and that you have finished the reading of chapter 45 and the introduction of chapter 44.

Follow this link to watch a video on Canada’s cold water corals off the Atlantic coast:

http://www.science.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=EE39B64D-1

Work on the handouts on the immune system (including the matching and diagram from before the break) using chapters 44 and 45, as well as the other resources/handouts you have received.

Be sure you can answer all the prokaryote/Moneral questions posted earlier on this blog and covered in class, and that you are familiar with the bacterial infections we studied as well as the pond case study.

Study the immune system handout and be prepared to discuss next class.

Finish case study (Pond – Part IV questions).

Please give the progress report to parent/guardian, and return signed copy to me next class (Thursday for 2-1 and 2-2 and Tuesday for 1-4).

Research the bacterial infection/disease that you were assigned, according to your group numbers for the jigsaw activity. For example, if your group was numbered “1” and you worked on Moneran question “1,” then you will research number 1, below. The bacterial infections/diseases are:

1. Rocky mountain spotted fever
2. Tuberculosis
3. Impetigo
4. Legionnaire’s disease
5. Botulism
6. Anthrax
7. Diptheria

You will need to research an outbreak of the disease/infection, when and where it happened, who was infected/became ill (eg. elderly people, children, etc), symptoms, mode of transmission (how they became infected; eg. person-to-person, drinking contaminated water, bodily fluids, etc), effects on those infected and on the community, and what species (scientific name) of bacteria causes the disease/infection. Be sure to include references cited.

Be sure to read the sections of workbook and textbook (ch. 17) on Monerans.

All blocks:

No Test next week.

Read the appropriate text and workbook sections on Kingdom Monera.

Blocks 2-1 and 2-2:

Jigsaw activity: Be sure you have all the information gathered on the following questions:

Coral Reef –Kingdom Monera questions

1. What does it mean to be prokaryotic? Explain the characteristics of the eubacteria, cyanobacteria, and archaebacterial.
2. How are prokaryotes different from eukaryotes?
3. How are prokaryotes and eukaryotes interdependent in the coral reef ecosystem? Give an example.
4. What are the general characteristics of the members of Kingdom Monera?
5. Are humans involved in any symbiotic relationships with Monerans? If yes, give examples.
6. What are the different cell shapes and arrangements in Monerans?
7. Draw and label a typical Moneran.

Finish the close reading of the Ediacaran Fauna article, and the Glass Sponges of BC article.

Read the What Sparked the Cambrian Explosion article.

Be sure to bring the notes from the jigsaw activity (answering the questions given in class: What is the role of mesenchyme and pore cells? What is/are the role(s) of epithelial and collar cells? How does reproduction occur in sponges?

Reminder: Test on what we have covered under the “umbrella” of coral reefs will be on 1/2 March.

Complete the reading and the information chart for Phylum Cnidaria and, now, Phylum Porifera (sponges). You can use the back of the same page.

Complete the microscope drawing and submit next class.

Test – Coral Reefs and all related lessons so far – 1/2 March 2016.

Finish the close reading of the article given out today in class (see here for close reading instructions).

 

Complete the coral morphology versus depth graph, draw a line of best fit and find the equation of the line in the y=mx+b form.

Answer the following questions about viruses:

1. What is a virus?
2. How/when did viruses evolve?
3. What is a virus made up of?

 

Read about corals and be able to draw/describe cnidarian body plan.

be able to explain the role(s) of red, brown and green algae in a coral reef ecosystem, and in ecosystems in general, and be able to explain what distinguishes them from one another.