Cells & Cell TransportLearning Logs

Honors Biology

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• What characteristics must something have to be considered living?

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• List all the characteristics we came up with as a class that something must have in order to be alive.

Day 1

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• How can microscopes be used to view small objects?

Day 2

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• What is true about images that you see in the microscope? What do you need to do/adjust on the microscope to see objects at different depths?

Day 2

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• How do you make a wet mount slide?

Day 3

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• How are all cells similar? What parts do they all have in common?

Day 3

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• List at least two differences between plant and animal cells.

Day 4

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• How did the cheek and onion cells you viewed compare?

• How did the onion and tomato cells compare?

Day 4

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• How are prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells similar? How are they different?

Day 5

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• Explain the differences between the bacterial (prokaryotic) cells you viewed today and the plant an animal (eukaryotic) cells you viewed yesterday.

Day 5

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• Give at least 3 examples of substances that cells would need to move into or out of them. Also give a reason for each example of why a cell would need that substance or need to get rid of it.

Day 6

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• List and explain two ways cells can move materials into or out of them.

Day 6

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• Explain what would happen to a cell if it were placed into a hypertonic environment. Use a diagram to help your explanation.

Day 7

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• What happened to the Elodea cells after you added salt water? Why did this happen (think of what type of environment you created around the cells)?

Day 7

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• Explain what happened in the “Diffusion Through a Membrane Lab” we did yesterday and why it happened.

Day 8

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• What is the purpose/goal of the “Lousy Lab Assistant” lab that we will do tomorrow?

Day 8

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• How is your group going to determine which solution contains more sugar?

Day 9

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• What were the results of your lab? Are you confident in these results? Why or why not?

Day 9

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• Give a definition for homeostasis. Explain at least two ways that living things can maintain homeostasis.

Day 10

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• What will the purpose of the “Liver Lab” be that we are going to begin tomorrow? What are we going to try to find out?

Day 10

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• Predict how you think the pH of water will change when you add acid and base to it.

Day 11

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• Now that you have done it, what happened to the pH of water as you added acid? As you added base?

Day 11

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• Predict how you think the liver mixture will change when you add acid and base to it.

Day 12

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• Now that you have done it, what happened to the pH of liver as you added acid? As you added base?

Day 12

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• How are multicellular living things organized?

Day 13

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• Revise your answer from earlier in class – how are multicellular living things organized? Give an example.

Day 13

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• Using what your group is about to present, give an example of how multiple body systems can work together to maintain homeostasis.

Day 14

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• What do you need to do to prepare for the test next class?

Day 14

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• Are you prepared for today’s test? Why or why not?

Day 15

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• Our next unit is about cell energy. List what you know about how cells get their energy or anything you know about different types of energy.

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