April 7th

Evolution

• Reminder: Turn in final draft of DNA Technology Paper today to me at Mlockett@pgsd.org

• Sum up what you understand so far about evolution in a few sentences.

April 8th Biological Diversity

• What 3 distinctive patterns of Biological Diversity did Darwin notice?

• What 2 geologists concluded that earth is extremely old?

• Who introduced the concept of deep time?

April 9th

Artificial Selection

• What scientist believed that traits could be altered by an individual organism during its life?

• What did he call these characteristics?• What did Darwin call the process in which

nature provides the variations, but humans select the traits they find useful?

April 10Lab Review

• What is an independent variable?• What is a dependent variable?

April 10th

Natural Selection

• What organism was studied during the industrial revolution that illustrated natural selection?

• What change in the environment caused this organism to evolve?

• What determined which organisms survived best in polluted forests?

April 13th Quiz

• Write down any question you would like to go over before the quiz.

• If you did not submit your Fingerprinting Analysis paper, send it to me today.

April 14th

Heritable Traits

• What is meant by an adaptive heritable trait?

April 15th

Darwin

• What is the name of Darwin’s publication?• Darwin said the process by which evolution

occurs is called

April 16th

Conditions for Natural Selection• Under what three conditions does Natural Selection

occur?• Reminder:

HW check today, 16-3 Reading GuideDid you turn in …Bird Beak Lab?Peppered Moth Simulation Quests?Quiz corrections?Fingerprinting Analysis paper?

April 17th

Evidence for Evolution

• What scientist published as essay with similar ideas to Darwin that caused Darwin to finaly publish his work?

• What method do scientists use to establish the age of the earth?

April 20th

Homologous Structures

• What is meant by a homologous and analagous structures?

• Homologous or Analagous?bird wing and bat wingbird wing and horse limbbird wing and insect wing

April 21st

Evidence for Evolution

• What sources of evidence support Darwin’s Theory of Evolution?

April 22nd

Get Organized to Study for Test• Test is Moved to Friday (due to assembly on Thurs)• Find each of the following to study for test:

-16-1 and 16-2 PowerPoint Notes, Darwin’s Discoveries-16-3 Notes, Darwin Presents His Case-16-4 PowerPoint Notes, Evidence for Evolution-Vocabulary Matching-Evolution Study Guide-If you are missing any, they are on the webpage.

• Study Tips-review notes-read sections in online text-PowerPoints are on webpage if needed in Evolution folder -videos to review evolution on website (if you want to watch)-practice questions on Study Island (30 by Friday)

April 23rd

Scientists

• Match the scientist with the correct wordMalthus, Lamarck, Lyell, Hutton, Darwin

Deep timeAcquired traitsPopulation growthUniformitarianismNatural selection

April 24th

Test

• Do you have any questions before the test?• Please clear your table top. Close all Bio

folders. All phones are to be put away off tabletops. You should not access your phone during the test period.

• When you finish your test you may take out something other than Bio to work on until everyone is finished.

April 27th

Evolution in Populations

• Do you think antibiotics could become ineffective in treating infections?

April 28th

Lab Recall

• For what two proteins were you comparing the amino sequences to humans?

• From the data which mammal did you find was most closely related to humans?

April 28th Genetic Change in Populations

• What are two types of traits that natural selection acts upon?

• Which trait has more possible phenotypes?

April 29th Polygenic Traits and Genetic Drift

• Names three types of selection that acts on polygenic traits?

• Genetic drift results in evolutionary change in populations. Is it due to natural selection or chance occurences?

April 30th Evolution vs. Genetic Equilibrium

• Name 5 conditions that can disturb genetic equilibrium and cause evolution to occur?

May 1st

Speciation

• What are three types of reproductive isolation?

May 4th

Test

• Write down any questions you would like to ask before the test.

• Turn in any Ch 17 HW you didn’t have on Fri.

May 5th

Ecology

• What is ecology?

May 7th

Ecological Levels of Organization

• Name the six levels of ecological organization:1. S2. P3. C4. E5. B6. B

May 8th

Biotic/Abiotic Factors• Write B for Biotic or A for Abiotic:

Leaves on the groundWoodSnailsBacteriaParameciumSnowHumidityTemperatureSharksWater currents

• HW Check Today: Vocab 3-1, 3-2, Pyramid packet- 3-1,3-2 Reading Guide• Quiz on Monday:

Levels of Ecological OrganizationAbiotic and Biotic Factors

• Did you turn in your Amino Acid Lab?

May 11th

Energy Sources for Food Chains

• Where do chemosynthetic bacteria get their energy?

• Where do plants, algae, and phytoplankton get their energy?

May 12th Trophic Levels

• What do detritovores eat?• What would happen if there weren’t any

detritovores or decomposers in food chains?

May 13th

Prokaryote vs Eukaryote

• What are three ways a prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell are different?

• What is the function of the nucleus? And of the ribosomes?

May 14th Organic Compounds

• What are the monomers of a carbohydrate, a protein, and a nucleic acid called?

• What process breaks a polymer into monomers?

• What process joins monomers into a polymer?• Enzymes bind with substances called

. They fit like a lock and

May 15th

Bioenergetics

What process does each equation below show?• carbon dioxide + water + light energy + chlorophyll

sugars + oxygen• 6O2 + C6H12O6 6CO2 + 6H2O +

energy

• Which process requires energy?facilitated diffusion endocytosisactive transport exocytosisdiffusion

May 18th

Cell Cycle and Mitosis

• What are the 4 stages of the cell cycle?• What are the stages of mitosis?• What is the difference between a haploid and

a diploid cell?• What 4 bases make up the genetic code?

May 19th

Genetics – Patterns of Inheritance• Dominant

Free earlobes (F) are dominant to attached earlobes (f)

What is the phenotype for Ff? and FF?• Recessive

What is the phenotype for ff?• Co-dominance

Blood types – A (IA) and B (IB )alleles are codominant, and A and B are dominant over O (i)What is the phenotype for IAIB, IAi, and ii?

May 20th Evolution

• What are three types of reproductive isolation?

• Name two ways to describe Rate of Speciation.

(remember the fossil lab?)

May 22nd Symbiosis

• Name three symbiotic relationships of organisms in ecosystems.

• Label the relationship between two organisms + -, + 0, + +

May 26th

Trophic Levels

• What trophic level is – a primary producer found in?a primary consumer?secondary consumer?tertiary consumer?quarternary consumer?

May 27th Quiz

• Take 5 minutes to study before quiz• Turn in Food Chain and Web Pkt before quiz

May 28th Cycles of Matter

• Name the four biogeochemical cycles

May 29th Carbon Cycle

• What are two biological processes involved in the Carbon cycle?

• What are two human actions that impact the carbon cycle?

• Name two geological process that are part of the carbon cycle.

June 1st

Nitrogen Cycle

• What type of bacteria can change N2 gas in the atmosphere to NH4

+?

• What type of bacteria can change NO3-,

nitrate, back to N2 gas?• What type of bacteria breaks down waste and

detritus to NH4+?

June 2nd

Phosphorous Cycle

• Name one way the phosphorous cycle differs from the water, nitrogen, and carbon cycles.

• In what vital molecules in living organisms is phosphorous found?

• We mine phosphate rocks to make what type of chemicals used in agriculture?