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Bio 11 (16-17) Lesson 28 Dec 13

Biology 11 (16-17) Lesson 28                                         Date Dec 13 2016

 

 

Last lessons

 

1)    Life as a simple cell

2)    Linking Monera to classification and evolution

3)    Creating a Monera “Data Sheet”

 

Eval

 

Virus

Quiz

Today’s Objectives 1)    Virus quiz, Review of last class and role of bacteria

2)    Bacteria reproduction and Koch’s postulate

3)    Sterile technique, gram stain and disinfectants

 

 
Topic

Number One

Soup in a bag in a box in box

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIqwggzbBoA

 

Identifying bacteria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gXiYhiQLvA

 

Bacteria can be classified by shape, colonies, metabolism and staiing techniques

 

The next part of our journey is exploring bacteria through experimentation and examining the history of bacteria.

 

Video Assignment

 

It is a common misconception that all bacteria are dangerous.

By reviewing these video, can you collect facts to support or debate this statement?

Make sure to listen for and record vocabulary terms used.

How does the media influence our perceptions about bacteria

 

From the following video clips, how are bacteria viewed?

What vocabulary is being used?

 

Classification of Monera

Disease verses Helpful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIdiE8JuCXc

 

History of Bacteria 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bayaDSRJAsg

 

History of Bacteria 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDXl2ltn4IU

 

Kafir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WOlJqJAqwY

 

Probiotic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geCJDhxtohc

 

Biotoxins and “germs of war”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIqwggzbBoA

 

Hunting the nightmare bacteria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE4VzFz9PPo

 

The story continues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygKCCMJP_wU

 

antibiotics and super bugs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGe_xnvR4LU

 

Now go back to your previous sheet on 12 ways bacteria can help humans

·                How would you create an argument to debate the role of bacteria?

·                What are arguments for Bacteria being helpful?

·                What percent of all bacteria are pathogenic?

 

 
Topic

Number Two

 

Activity of life (Reproduction) and disease

 

reproduction and Koch postulate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYxU348nQ1s

 

Pathogenesis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E15p4DEI9uA

 

Koch Postulate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-ss-O382Ss

 

How did Kock use the scientific method to create his postulate?

 

What was his variable?

 

What is the difference between a postulate and a theory?

 

 

 
Topic

Number Three

 

Learning how to work with bacteria

 

In preparation for next classes lab

 

A simple version of how to get microbes from yogurt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSFDKKg3BZY

 

Aseptic technique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRadiLXkqoU

 

Gram Stain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxa46xKfIOY

 

 

 

 
Text book Ref

 

Gap notes for Bacteria

Chapter 8

 
Online Youtube videos

Monera

·      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvcq8LziGd0

·      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtaATIC0S3E

·      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZGQfO85uzM

 

 

 
Take Home Message  

 

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Bio 11 (16-17) Lesson 27 Fri 9th

Biology 11 (16-17) Lesson 27                                         Date Dec 9 2016

 

 

Last lessons

 

1)    Virus and immune system and big Ideas

2)    Active and Passive Immunity

3)    Introduction to Monera

 

Eval

 

Virus

Quiz

Today’s Objectives 1)    Life as a simple cell

2)    Linking Monera to classification and evolution

3)    Creating a Monera “Data Sheet”

 

 
Topic

Number One

Life

noun

noun: life; noun: one’s life; plural noun: one’s lifes

1.    
the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.

Wiki rf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life

 

Here is the challenge. In order to life, you need to be able to make or get energy. To get energy you need to move to that energy. If we focus on three main activities; growth, movement and reproduction, we begin to see a simple path to follow to explore life as a simpler prokaryotic cell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prokaryote

 

Lets simply ..monera can be seen as “soup, in a bag, in a box”

 

The soup is all the fluids, gases and molecules within the cells cytoplasm.

The bag, is a selectively permeable membrane.

and the bag, an option, is a cell wall or even a protective capsule.

 

Using the diagrams found in class or on line, we notice how things get in or out of the cell.

Remember that “metabolism” is the sum of all reactions in a living thing. We can simplify this to two main types of reactions, making and breaking molecules. This is done to store or use energy.

 

This “story of energy” is a great way to explore the beginning of this amazing thing called life.

 

 

 
Topic

Number Two

 

Most Monerans can grow, reproduce and evolve rapidly. So the university designed a means to show both

At Harvard University, they designed a great way to show the rate of bacteria cell growth and how it is affected by anitbiotics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOVtrxUtzfk

 

When a bacteria moves towards or away from a stimuli, we call this “taxis”. If a bacteria moves away, it is negative taxis.

Lets suppose a bacteria is moving towards a chemical. We would call that “positive chemotaxis”.

 

E.Coli is a “eubacteria”, it can be found inside of you. In this experiment, we notice how fast this species of bacteria can adapt. In the lab you will notice how species adapt or become extinct due to the affects of bacteria. Notice the difference in rate of growth on each side.

Also notic the clear or not clear separations between colonies of bacteria. A group of bacteria is not a tissue yet a colony. Why?

 

Now classification and Bacteria

3 majour groups :

Archeobacteria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W25nI9kpxtU

 

, Eubacteria and Blue Green Algae.

 

Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1H9sH-Muzk

 

 

 

 

 
Topic

Number Three

Making a “Data Sheet” for Monera

 

On a legal piece of paper, we are going to fold the paper into a 3×3 grid.

Column One: Diagrams

Column Two: Key “systems” and concepts in Monera

Column Three: Vocabulary.

 

Sample for Monera Data Sheet

 

 

Diagrams Systems Vocab
 

Draw and label simple cell here

Digestion

If make own energy

If make own energy with light

If make own energy with inorganic chemicals

Get own energy for other living things

Respiration burining sugar with or without sugar.

Genetic material in a loop

Diffusion

Autotrophic

Photosynthetic

Chemosynthetic

Heterotrophic

Aerobic

Anaerobic

Archeobacteria How have system changed?

Types of interactions

Disease causing archeo bacteria

Parasitic

Saprophytic

Eubacteria

 

Different shapes and types of colonies

As bacteria get bigger, what systems change?

Waste can stay inside of cell or be released.

Cocci

Rod

Spirillium

Endo and exotoxins

 

 

 

 

 
Text book Ref

 

Gap notes for Bacteria

Chapter 8

 
Online Youtube videos

Monera

·      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvcq8LziGd0

·      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtaATIC0S3E

·      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZGQfO85uzM

 

 

 
Take Home Message An interesting point brought up in class..bacteria succeed because they can work together.

 

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Bio 11 (16-17) Lesson 25 Dec 8

Biology 11 (16-17) Lesson 26                                         Date Dec 8 2016

 

 

Last lessons

 

1)    Review virus reproductive

2)    Intro to notion of an infection

3)    Intro to immunology

 

Eval
Today’s Objectives 1)    Virus and immune system and big Ideas

2)    Active and Passive Immunity

3)    Introduction to Monera

 

Topic

Number One

·      Defining critical thinking

·      Self evaluation

 

Virus and immune system

 

Three Big Ideas

a)   Taxonomy

b)   DNA and Evolutions

c)   Activity of life

 

1)    Properties of a virus

2)    Virus Quiz

https://www.biologycorner.com/quiz/qz_virus.html

 

Online Reference

http://www.majordifferences.com/2014/04/difference-between-active-and-passive.html#.WEdWvSOZP_Q

 

http://www.shmoop.com/microorganisms-viruses/immune-defense-viruses.html

 

Topic

Number Two

 

 

Using bio vocab to discuss two types of immunity.

 

Active: to initiate full immune response with memory

Passive: No immune response just antibodies and no memory

 

Active verses passive immunity

http://www.majordifferences.com/2014/04/difference-between-active-and-passive.html#.WEhPUSOZOu4

 

 

Bio quizlets

 

·      https://quizlet.com/10792737/viruses-bacteria-and-the-immune-system-flash-cards/

·      https://quizlet.com/125940964/bacteria-viruses-immune-system-flash-cards/

·      https://quizlet.com/109837387/chapter-17-chapter-35-viruses-the-immune-system-flash-cards/

·      https://quizlet.com/42975170/viruses-and-immune-system-flash-cards/

 

Topic

Number Three

Problems to solve:

·      What is Monera?

·      Classification of Monera

·      What do bacteria do?

·      How to observe bacteria

 

General characteristics of the kingdom Monera are as follows:

 

•   They are primitive organisms.

•   All organisms of the kingdom are prokaryotes.

•   They are present in both living and non-living environment.

•   They can survive in harsh and extreme climatic conditions like in hot springs, acidic soils etc.

•   They are unicellular organisms.

•   Membrane bound nucleus is absent.

•   DNA is in double stranded form, suspended in the cytoplasm of the organism,referred as nucleoid.

•   A rigid cell wall is present.

•   Membrane bound cellular organelles like mitochondria are absent.

•   Habitat – Monerans are found everywhere in hot springs, under ice, in deep ocean floor, in deserts and on or inside the body of plants and animals.

•   Nutrition – autotrophs – can prepare their own food, heterotrophs – depend on others for food, saprophytes – feed on dead and decaying matter, parasitic – live on other host cells for survival and cause, symbiotic – in mutual relation with other organisms, commensalism – it is where one organism is benefited and the other is not affected, mutualism – where both the organisms are benefited.

•   Respiration – respiration in these organisms vary, they may be obligate aerobes – the organisms must have organisms for survival; obligate anaerobes – the organisms cannot survive in the presence of oxygen; facultative anaerobes – these organisms can survive with or without oxygen.

•   Circulation – is through diffusion.

•   Movement – is with the help of flagella.

Reproduction is mostly asexual, sexual reproduction is also seen. Asexual reproduction is by binary fission, sexual reproduction is by conjugation, transformation and transduction.

 

Key Points

 

Classification

·      Kingdom verse Domain

·      By structure and by function

·      Defining what is a primitive structure

·      Defining by metabolism

 

Metabolism

·      Auto and Heterotroph

·      Aerobe and anaerobe

·      Photo and Chemo synthesis

·      Taxis

 

Positive and negative roles of bacteria

 

12 Positive roles

http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/12-ways-bacteria-improve-our-lives-from-hard-drives-to-highrises.html

 

A comparison of good to bad

http://www.biotecharticles.com/Biology-Article/Beneficial-and-Harmful-Bacteria-312.html

 

 

Observing Bacteria

 

Through a microscope

http://penpals.web.unc.edu/2013/04/14/what-microscopes-do-you-use-to-see-microbes/

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj5_FrTndwY

 

Looking at petri dishes

http://microbiologyonline.org/teachers/observing-microbes/observing-bacteria-in-a-petri-dish

 

Chemical responses and Staining

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bioslabs/bios318/staining.htm

 

Yogurt and bacteria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Pm38YzLqc

 

 

Text book Ref

 

Gap notes for Bacteria

Chapter 8

Online Youtube videos

Monera

·      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvcq8LziGd0

·      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtaATIC0S3E

·      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZGQfO85uzM

 

 

Take Home Message Critical thinking is

 

“thinking that attempts to arrive at a decision or judgment only after honesty evaluating alternatives with respect to available evidence and arguments”.

 

Donald Hatcher

“Reasoning and Writing”

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Bio 11 (16-17) Lesson 15 Oct 27

Biology 11 (16-17) Lesson 15                                         Date Oct 27th 2016

 

 

Last lessons

 

1)    Collaborative Treasure Hunt

2)    Wikipedia “aha” reading response

3)    Next class quiz

 

Eval
Today’s Objectives 1)    Quiz on Chapter 3

2)    Defining Population Evolution

3)    Hardy Weinberg formula

 

 
Topic

Number One

After the quiz

Defining Population Evolution

https://www.boundless.com/biology/textbooks/boundless-biology-textbook/the-evolution-of-populations-19/population-evolution-130/defining-population-evolution-527-11733/

 

How many definitions about evolution talk about genes?

What exactly is a “gene”

 

Looking at the above link, record key terms and try to create an example of each.

 

How do you suppose these “terms” link to key points?

 

How do these terms link to previous case studies in the class?

 

Work:

a)   Definitions from board, text and link

b)   Text Question pg 182

 

Mendel and Darwin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhFKPaRnTdQ

 

 

 
Topic

Number Two

Reading assignment>

The Hardy Weinberg Formula

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPkOAnK20kw

 

What must occur for evolution not to occur?

Linking ideas like allele

Plan A: Going from Population Phenotypes to Genotype

Plan B: Going from Genotype to Phenotype

Key tricks to solving questions

 

1)    In a population and looking at phenotype, always use the number of organisms that do not show the trait. Example, if 80 of 110 plants show dominate trait, calculate the allele frequency. So 110 minus 80 are purebred recessive or “aa”.

 

2)    When you are given the dominant allele frequency, calculate the recessive allele frequency first. Example the dominant allele frequency is .65. If the whole population is 1 and you subtract .65 from 1, the recessive allele frequency is .35 for the population.

 

 
Topic

Number Three

Practice work on HW (Next class)

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG7ob-MtO8c

 

Practice

http://study.com/academy/practice/quiz-worksheet-hardy-weinberg-equilibrium-equation.html

 

 
Text book Ref

 

Chapter Three

Chapter 6

 
Online  

 

 
Take Home Message Don’t adopt a cat if you want a dog.
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Biology 11 (16-17) Lesson 14 Oct 25

Biology 11 (16-17) Lesson 14                                         Date Oct 25th 2016

 

 

Last lessons

 

1)    story of Evolution Timeline

2)    Darwin verse Lamarck

3)    Problems with Linneaus, Taxonomy and DNA

 

Eval
Today’s Objectives 1)    Collaborative Treasure Hunt

2)    Wikipedia “aha” reading response

3)    Next class quiz

4)

 
Topic

Number One

In class group evaluation

The following evaluation was found in an archeological dig as Vancouver Dump. Your mission is to create an answer key for questions. You will be given open book resources, no online information and one feedback response

 

 

 
Topic

Number Two

You are to go to the following web address and read the article.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin

 

Find 5 “Aha” observations.

 

For example,

“did you know Darwin married his second cousin and was worried that imbreeding may have caused the death of his children. He never read mendel though..

 

So read the article

Select:

a)   Two aha’s about Darwins personal life and explain why you found these fact interesting

b)   Two aha s that explained more details found in text and notes and explain how these facts helped explain material deeper

c)   One aha within the wiki that made you want to go to a second link within the bio. Explain why

 

 
Topic

Number Three

Next class

Check evaluation answers

Quiz on Chapter 3

Introduction to Chapter 6 and work on structure and function of DNA

 

 
Text book Ref

 

Chapter Three

Chapter 6

 
Online Misconceptions about evolution http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/misconceptions_teacherfaq.php

 

 

 
Take Home Message Darwin was fond of potatoes…why?
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Bio 11 (16-17) Lesson 13 Oct 20th

Biology 11 (16-17) Lesson 13                                         Date Oct 20th 2016

 

 

Last lessons

 

1)    story of Evolution Timeline

2)    Darwin verse Lamarck

3)    Problems with Linneaus, Taxonomy and DNA

 

Eval
Today’s Objectives 1)    Darwin’s Finches

2)    The rate of change: punctuated or gradual

3)    Introduction to Taxonomy

 

 
Topic

Number One

So here is the six mark question: How did the diversity of finches on the Galopagos Islands occur according to Darwin’s mechanism for change.

 

Key points.

1)    A population of finches arrived to the Islands from mainland south America, perhaps Ecuador.

2)    On the initial island there was:

·      Plenty of food

·      Niches to set up territories

·      No natural predators

3)    As the species started to grow, there began a competition of food and space.

4)    Some species born did not have the correct beak to get food and they migrated to another island.

5)    On the new island, those species that survived were those species that had the right beak adaption to get food. ( See definition for adaptive radiation)

6)    Each Island has its own unique climate and habitat, the species that had the best beak to get food on that island became the dominant species on that island.

 

Wallace discovered the same pattern with islands

https://www.wired.com/2012/08/island-evolution-more-species/

 

Wallace web page

http://wallacefund.info

Wallace paper to Linneaus society

http://wallacefund.info/content/1858-darwin-wallace-paper

 

 
Topic

Number Two

Rates of Change: Gradual verses Punctuated Equilibrium

http://evolution.about.com/od/macroevolution/a/Gradualism-Vs-Punctuated-Equilibrium.htm

 

What is adaptive radiation and how can it help explain different rates of change?

Darwin’s Dilemma

http://evolution.about.com/od/Darwin/fl/Darwins-Dilemma.htm

 

Video to compare

·      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP553wXgXJc

·      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWUqQyVa5ts

·      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eEEWwwezlw

 

 

 
Topic

Number Three

Why the confusion with Taxonomy and Evolution

a)   Taxonomy came first and did not consider DNA

b)   Evolutionary theories did not know about DNA

c)   Gradual and Punctuated Equilibrium

 

What is taxonomy and Linneaus’s plan

·      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiC_Z8Za7wc

·      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPtAuojPQVQ

·      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F38BmgPcZ_I

 

What is the difference between a system using kingdoms verses Domains?

 

 
Text book Ref

 

Chapter 3 Darwin’s theory of evolution, rate of change and adaptive radiation

Chapter 6: Traits and allele frequency

Chapter 7: Taxonomy

 

 
Online Misconceptions about evolution http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/misconceptions_teacherfaq.php

 

Practice Evolution quizzes

·      http://anthro.palomar.edu/practice/evoquiz2.htm

·      http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0073031208/student_view0/chapter20/multiple_choice.html

·      https://www.cliffsnotes.com/study-guides/biology/biology/principles-of-evolution/quiz-theory-of-evolution

 

 

 
Take Home Message To simplify a problem, make it into small pieces. Paraphrase of Einstein.

 

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Bio 11 (16-17) Lesson 12 Oct 18th 2016

Biology 11 (16-17) Lesson 12                                         Date Oct 18th 2016

 

 

Last lessons

 

1)    Darwin’s Dangerous Idea

2)    Performance, feedback and revision

3)    From Aristotle to Now

 

Eval
Today’s Objectives 1)    History of Evolution Timeline

2)    Darwin verse Lamarck

3)    Problems with Linneaus, Taxonomy and DNA

 

Topic

Number One

History of theory of Evolution begins with two issues

a)   theory of “fixity of species” needed to be refuted.

b)   animals classified not by evolution nor DNA

 

·      Classification of living things: Linnaeus

·      role of fossils: Cuvier

·      Buffon challenges fixity of species

·      Hutton introduces change with time regarding geology

·      Malthus: struggle for existence

·      Lamarck: Acquired characteristics and use and disuse

·      Darwin

·      Mendel

·      Role of DNA and Heredity

·      Role of DNA and evolution

 

History of Evolutionary Thought

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_evolutionary_thought

 

Topic

Number Two

Darwin verses Lamarck

Evidence and theory for a mechanism of change

http://necsi.edu/projects/evolution/lamarck/intro./lamarck_intro.html

 

·      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_evolutionary_thought

·      http://www.iep.utm.edu/evolutio/

·      http://sciencenetlinks.com/student-teacher-sheets/lamarck-and-darwin-summary-theories/

·      http://www.majordifferences.com/2013/05/difference-between-darwinism-and.html#.WAaJSHfMz_Q

 

 

Key concepts

·      Traits acquired verses being selected

·      Organism adapts verse environment is favouring those who adapt.

·      Use and disuse verse struggle for existence

·      Key issue

·      Neither new about the source but did propose a mechanism for change.

Practice quiz

·      http://anthro.palomar.edu/practice/evoquiz2.htm

·      http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0073212040/student_view0/chapter17/multiple_choice_quiz.html

·      http://zunal.com/introduction.php?w=54845

 

 

Topic

Number Three

Why the confusion with Taxonomy and Evolution

a)   Taxonomy came first and did not consider DNA

b)   Evolutionary theories did not know about DNA

c)   Gradual and Punctuated Equilibrium

 

Three paths of Inquiry

a)   How are living things classified (chapter 7)

b)   What is the mechanism for change (chapter 3)

c)   What is the role of DNA in Evolution (Chapter 6)

 

 

Text book Ref

 

Chapter Three

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Online Molecular Phylogenetics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_phylogenetics

Hardy and Weinberg (chapter 6)

http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/labbench/lab8/quiz.html

 

Take Home Message Keep it simple sailor
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Bio 11 DNA Notes

Structure and Function of DNA

 

What does DNA stand for?

 

What is the function of DNA?

 

 

 

Where is DNA found?

 

 

What is the structure of DNA?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is a nucleotide?

Shat are the 4 bases found in DNA?

 

What is complementary base pairing?

 

 

 

 

 

 

•     DeoxyriboNucleicAcid

 

 

•     provides instructions for

o   the synthesis of enzymes that control cell functioning

o   its own replication (the only molecule known that can replicate itself)

 

 

•     found in all cells of all organisms

•     in eukaryotes it is found only in the nucleus

 

•       two long strands twisted around each other in a shape called a “double helix”

•     when unravelled it looks like a ladder

•     sides of the ladder are alternating sugar and phosphate – the “sugar phosphate backbone”

•     rungs of the ladder arecomplementary pairs of “nitrogenous bases” joined by hydrogen bonds

•     largest humn chromosome has about 250,000,000 base pairs

 

•     DNA molecule made up of many units (like lego blocks) called nucleotides

•     each nucleotide consists of a phosphate molecule + sugar + nitrogenous base

 
•     4 types of bases in DNA

o   adenine (A)

o   cytosine (C)

o   guanine (G)

o   thymine (T)

 

 

 

•     adenine and thymine complement each other and always pair

•     cytosine and guanine complement each other and always pair

 

Genes

What are genes?

 

 

 

 

 

What are enzymes?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

•       Genes are units of instruction, located on chromosomes, that determine specific traits in an individual.

•       Each gene consist of a length of DNA that contains instructions (the “code”) for making a specific enzyme.

 

 

•       protein molecules that control the chemical reactions in a cell

•       Enzymes are proteins made of long chains of amino acids.

•       there are 20 kinds of amino acids.

 

 

An Analogy:

Think of the nitrogenous bases along a single strand of DNA as being letters:

 

ATGCTCGAATAAATGTGAATTTGA

The letters make words:

 

ATG   CTC   GAA     TAA   ATG   TGA     ATT   TGA
 

The words make sentences:

<ATG     CTC   GAA   TAA     ATG   TGA   ATT     TGA>
These “sentences” are called genes. Each three letter “word” in the sentence is called a codon, and represents a different amino acid. Enzymes are proteins made of long strings of amino acids. Each “sentence” (gene) is the code for an enzyme made up of amino acids.

 

 

 

RNA and Enzyme Assembly

 

What does RNA stand for?

 

What is the function of RNA?

 

 

Where is RNA found?

 

What is the structure of RNA?

 

 

 

what are the 3 kinds of RNA?

 

 

 

How is RNA formed?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How are enzymes assembled?

 

 

 

 

•     RiboNucleicAcid

 

 

•     functions as a messenger, carrying instructions from the DNA to the rest of the cell

 

 

•     in the nucleus and in the cytoplasmm

 

 

•     similar to DNA except:

•     only one strand

•     the base thymine is replced with a base called uracil (U)

 

 

1.     messengern RNA (mRNA)

2.    transfer RNA (tRNA)

3.    ribosomal RNA (rRNA)

 

 

RNA formed through a process called transcription

 

1) The hydrogen bonds between complementary bases break.

2) Thedouble helix unravels (becomes untwisted), exposing unpaired bases.

3) New nucleotides, with complementary bases, come and form a new chain along only one strand of the DNA.

4) Chemical bonds form between the sugars and the phosphates of the new nucleotides

 

•     Every time the cell needs a particular enzyme assembled, a new mRNA molecule is created from the gene on the DNA that “codes for” that enzyme

•     the mRNA goes out into the cytoplasm and finds a ribosome, which is an organelle that assembles proteins

•     the ribosome “reads” the mRNA code and uses it to assemble a chain of amino acids that becomes the required enzyme

DNA Replication

 

Why does DNA replicate (reproduce) itself?

 

 

What is the process of DNA replication?

 

DNA replictes so that every time a cell divides, each new daughter cell can have an identical copy of DNA (instructions)

 

 

1)    The hydrogen bonds between complementary bases break

2)    The double helix unravels (becomes untwisted), exposing unpaired bases

3)    New nucleotides, with complementary bases, come and form hydrogen bonds with the unpaired bases, forming a new chain.

4)     Chemical bonds form between the sugars and phosphates of the new nucleotides.

5)    The result is 2 new strands of DNA, each of which has one strand from the original DNA and one strand that is newly created.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Every once in a while, a mistake happens while DNA is duplicating itself, and the new strand will be slightly different than the original strand. These mistakes are called mutations

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Bio 11 Chapter 3 Txt Answers

Chapter Three Review Questions   : page (Ch. 3)

 

  1. The modern view of evolution is based on scientific evidence which combines both genetic information and the theory of natural selection. It implies a change over time. Earlier beliefs were based on opinion and nonscientific evidence. This earlier view held that living things had been “fixed” since the beginning, and were unchangeable.

 

  1. The variety (adaptation) of beak types displayed by the islands’ finch species made the greatest impression on Darwin.

 

  1. Survival of the fittest means that individuals with traits best suited for and environment are better able to compete, survive, and reproduce. Adaptation is the basis through which natural selection can occur, with those individuals that are best adapted to particular environments becoming the most successful reproducers. The direction of evolution is determined by the adaptation.

 

 

  1. Lamarck offered and explanation for the mechanism of evolution – that species change over time, and that the environment is a factor n that change. He showed that evolution is adaptive and that the diversity of life is the result of adaptation (see pages 91- 93).

 

  1. Buffon’s theory indicated that the creation of a species did not occur in a single place at a single time and that a species was not created in a perfect state. Later he wondered if certain species might develop from a common ancestor. Darwin accepted Buffon’s ideas and went on to provide an explanation for the manner in which species change over time.

 

 

  1. Structural, physiological, and biochemical are the three types of adaptation.

 

  1. The moths adapted a color (pigmentation) change from light-colored to predominantly dark-colored (melanic) forms in response to the environmental changes caused by the industrial fumes of the mid-1800s

 

 

Applying the Concepts

 

  1. The study of genetics has shown that acquired characteristics cannot be passed on to offspring, so Lamarck’s ideas have been proven incorrect.
  2. a) Lamarck would have suggested that the zebra wanted to avoid the annoying bite of the tsetse fly and developed the striped to do this.
  3. b) Darwin or Wallace would have suggested that some zebras were striped more than others. Tsetse flies bit those that had few stripes, or had pale stripes. These zebras got the parasite and died, and the striped zebras, which were bitten less frequently, reproduced and passed the stripes to their offspring.
  4. c) Answers will vary.
  5. Human activities can affect evolution by isolating populations of organisms in different areas. Small organisms are less likely to cross roads to find a mate, so the road can become an effective barrier. Bridges can bring two isolated populations together, stopping their speciation.
  6. Lamarck had recognized the impact of environmental factors on the course of evolution. He recognized that the mechanism for evolution was natural selection through adaptation. This became the basis for Darwin’s theory of evolution.
  7. The traditional and widely accepted model for the rate of evolutionary change holds that change occurs slowly or gradually within populations of organisms. The peppered moth case (and others mentioned in the test) demonstrated that certain changes (e.g., coloration in moths) can take place rapidly.
  • Some populations (e.g., mosquitoes exposed to insecticides) show wide fluctuations in number, indicating the loss (or gain) of tremendous numbers of individuals, but the species continues (although it may evolve in the process).
  • The loss of individuals may reduce the gene pool and modify the population, but he species continues.
  • The life span of individuals is trivial in comparison to the “life span” of species. Hence, specific individuals contribute very little to the survival of the species. On the other hand, if the species does not survive, there will of course be no more individuals.
  1. Adaptation to environment is a very complex process and very difficult to study in the natural environment. It is impossible, for example, to devise and experiment to show the effect on a caribou population of another ice age. Adaptation also takes a very long time, and may not be suitable for direct study (e.g., even an adaptation taking hundreds of years would be difficult to study directly). Carefully constructed computer models mimic the response of organisms in the “real world,” and allow scientists to run simulations that show, in minutes, the effects of environmental changes that might take years of real time. They can also vary different aspects of the environment and look at their effects on populations. Supercomputers allow such models to contain far more complexity and to be more realistic. Examples will be various.
  2. Answers will vary, and might include some of the following:
  • Roads can be a barrier to some species, and their construction can subdivide populations. Each smaller population may experience slightly different selection pressures, and it may contain a slightly different gene pool than the original, continuous, population.
  • Hydroelectric dams cause extensive flooding and disruption of natural populations, creating new sets of selection pressures which can affect the direction and rate of evolution. Some major projects have even been stopped because they would cause the extinction of a specific organism found only in the area that would be disrupted by the dam.
  • The building of navigable waterways connecting previously unconnected (or poorly connected) bodies of water allows the spread of species beyond previous limits, and alters community composition and selection pressures (e.g., the lamprey entering the Great Lakes).
  • Pumping of wasted water from ships’ bilges has been implicated in the introduction the zebra mussel to the Great Lakes, introducing a new and fast-growing grazer to the community, with implications both for existing species and for our use of the waterways.
  1. High reproductive capacity is normally linked with high egg number and short development time (e.g., many species of fish and insects). Where there are many young, there will be many different combinations of parental genes, increasing the chance that there will be some combinations that are better able to withstand a particular selection pressure. Such populations can also respond more rapidly to sudden pressures. (Compare the response of humans, which have a nine-month gestation period and approximately 20 years between generations, with the response of flies, which may have only days between successive generations

 

 

Critical-Thinking Questions

  1. Answers will vary. When humans are domesticating animals and plants, they choose traits that they (the humans) want to propagate. They do not allow “nature to take its course.” For example, animals many thousands of miles apart can parent an offspring by artificial insemination; this would not occur naturally.
  2. answers should recognize that, in the Galapagos, similar populations of organisms invaded a series of islands on which there were different selection pressures. It is almost the type of situation a researcher might set up if she were interested in evolution in natural situations, and if she had hundreds (perhaps thousands) of years to observe the results. Answers should include the idea of isolation one island population from populations on other islands and /or the mainland.
  3. If a Lamarckian explanation of evolution were to be endorsed, then evolutionary changes in an organism would be interpreted as meeting the needs of the individual organism.
  4. Answers will vary, but may be evaluated in relation to the literature used to research them.
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Bio 11 (16-17) Lesson 9

Biology 11 (16-17) Lesson 9                                           Date Oct 7th 2016

 

 

Last lessons Objectives

 

1.    Isolation mechanisms

2.    Evolution Concept Map

3.    Barbellus Lab

 

1.

Eval
Today’s Objectives 1)    Awesome Unit Test experience

2)    Elephants and rhinos story

3)    Evolution of Elephant Lab

 

 
Topic

Number One

 

Exam topics the same as flow chart in class.

Reinforcing

1)    The idea of experimentation to support ideas that become theories

2)    Observing activities of life to link to concepts

3)    Linking levels of organization to types of biological research

 

 
Topic

Number Two

Elephants picking on rhinos

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-delinquents/

 

Elephant learning

https://www.elephantvoices.org/elephant-sense-a-sociality-4/elephants-learn-from-others.html

 

Save the rhino

https://www.savetherhino.org

 

 
Topic

Number Three

Evolution of the Elephant

·      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qceHwgTMyKI

·      http://elephant.elehost.com/About_Elephants/Stories/Evolution/evolution.html

 

 
Text book Ref

 

Chapter 2

Reinforcing concepts of

·      Isolation mechanisms

·      Convergence and Divergence

·      Evidence of change

·      Fossils

·      Adaptions

 

 
Online Morphing, evolution of the bear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDG-Ja0mqgU

 

 

 

 
Take Home Message It is not the destination but the journey

Quiz on chapter 1 and 2 possible next week.

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