AP Biology (Period 3) Assignments

Hello Students, 

 

Please remember to complete reading 9.1-9.3 "DNA and Its Role in Heredity" 

 

Thanks!

Ms. Dixon

Please remember to work on your Explanation of how mendelian genetics and the cell cycle relate to cancer using HPV and Cerival Cancer as an example. You may create ANYTHING for your product---a speech, a powerpoint, a movie, writing, whatever your AP Biologist heart desires---but be sure to include all of the information on the checklist (attached!). Happy Monday!

Labs are Tomorrow! Hooray!

 

Ms. Dixon

Please read 15.4-15.7 for Monday! 

Please remember to read Chapter 8.2-8.4 and complete your Mitosis/Meiosis handout that goes with the in-class activity we completed on Tuesday. 

 

 

Hello Students, 

 

Please remember to read 7.2 and 7.3 for tomorrow's class. We will be working through chi-square and CDK-cyclin modeling tomorrow. See you soon!

 

Dixon 

Please check your Google Classroom for the Hardy-Weinberg Problems---there is a video and an activity, it WILL take you 45 minutes to an hour, so please plan accordingly. 

 

Thanks!

 

Ms. Dixon

Here is a link to the video we'll be watching in class tomorrow. 

 

Please remember to read 15.1 and 15.2 for Monday (your Lizard Lab does NOT need to be finished). 

 

See you at the Science Fair! If you need a speaker pass please come see me!

 

Dixon

Please remember to complete Module One of the Lizard Lab. When you finish, please send a screen shot of your final data and graph to [email protected]. The link is below. (If you want to work ahead all four modules will be due March 9th) Your first reading assignment this week is to read 18.1-18.2. Here we go!

Dixon

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello Happy Students,

 

Please remember to review 5.3-5.5 and read the introduction to hormones on pg. 604-607.

 

See you in class!

 

Ms. Dixon

Please remember to complete your NVBC Surveys in Google Classroom! This determines our ability to borrow supplies in the spring!

Ms. Dixon

Hello Intrepid AP Bioheads, 

 

We are coming up on our second exam on Thursday. Per usual, tomorrow will be a study session in my room during Enrichment. If you need help after school tomorrow or during Advisory on Thursday please let me know. Please complete the required activities posted in Google Classroom (choice of activities for each of the three sections). The three sections are: Enzyme Action, Organelles, and Cell Junctions. This covers all of Chapter 4 and sections 3.3 and 3.4 in chapter 3. 

 

Thanks!

Ms. Dixon

Bring your descriptions of the following from 4.5: 

 

Tight Junctions

Desmosomes

Gap Junctions

 

Include: Where they're found, how they connect one cell to the next, and a DIAGRAM of the junction. 

 

 

Hello Intrepid AP Biology Students, 

 

Here is your weekly calendar through October 2nd!

 

We will get another one on Thursday in class. Cell Organelle Election speeches are this Thursday! Be ready. The project is also attached. 

 

Ms. Dixon

Hello AP Students, 

 

I have some additional information about our awesome field trip to Bodega Bay on Friday, October 17th. We are still collecting permission slips TOMORROW, but I MUST have them in tomorrow so that we can get the numbers to Davis. We have separate accommodations for girls (in the dorms) and boys (in the bunkrooms). The attachment below has more information about where we will be staying. Please let me know if you have questions!

 

Ms. Dixon

Hello AP Bio Students, 

 

Please remember to bring your mudslinging and speeches for our Cell Organelle Elections tomorrow to class. We will be delivering speeches in class and finishing our microscopy labs. I'm looking forward to hearing from you!

Ms. Dixon

Homework: Please remember to bring your Chapter 4 Evidence of Reading and your Cell Organelle pamphlet to class on Monday!

 

 

The tentative itinerary is attached including a permission slip. 
Permission Slips MUST be returned by Tuesday, September 30th so that we can book the correct number of dorm rooms. 

 

 

 

Ms. Dixon

Please copy your Lactase lab into your lab notebook using the protocol we discussed in class today. This should include: 

Title

Background

Experimental Question

Hypothesis

(both null and alternative)

Procedures

Data Tables (these are you handout from the google classroom)

 

I apologize for the sub earlier in the day and I can't wait to see you Monday!

Dixon

Dear AP Bioheads, 

 

Awesome work assembling polysaccharides today in class! I think that was a world record. Please complete the "Analyze the Data" questions A-C pg. 44 and "Do you Understand 3.2" pg. 45 #1-4 in your textbook for Monday. These are based on the reading and may require you to look up the amino acid chart (pg. 40) and the functional group chart (pg. 23) to determine how the amino acids will behave (and therefore, where they would be located within the protein---think inside or outside, surface or interior).

 

We will be building DNA and polypeptides in class on Monday, so even if this assignment is challenging, please give it a go!---it will become more clear as you manipulate the amino acids themselves. You're doing an excellent job!

 

Dixon

Hello AP Biology All-Stars, 

 

Excellent work with protein structure today in class! Please remember to do your proof-of-reading (notes, flashcards, etc.) over Chapter 1, 2.1-2.5 and 3.1-3.2. Remember, this is all of the reading we've done so far this year, so it's about time we took a closer look at your progress with it. We will have a short reading quiz that is closed book with OPEN notes: Make them fabulous and they'll be quite helpful. Have an excellent 3-day weekend, I'll see you on Tuesday!
Dixon

Hi Happy Students, 

 

I wanted to quickly post our weekly calendar: I'm excited for our Google Classroom rollout soon, it will be amazing. Until then, here's what we worked on today in class!

 

Dixon

Hello AP Bio All-Stars!

 

For your homework please complete a "Proof of Reading" for Chapter One and Chapter 2.1-2.2. This can be anything on the AP Biology Homework Menu:  

Ap biology homework menu

Physical evidence that you’ve actually read the assigned sections; Please pick one of the following or propose your own!

1.       3-Column Dixon Notes
2.      Flashcards with both concepts AND Vocabulary words
3.      Study Guides----Reading Guides with questions as you read
4.      Flow Chart

 

Special kudos to the AP Biohead who already asked me if she could make a comic book version of the reading to show her proof: absolutely. You rock! Welcome to the class AAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPP BIO! 

 

Dixon

Hello Students!

 

Please read chapter 1 (pgs. 1-14)  in your shiny new AP Biology textbooks. We will build our "proof of reading" menu tomorrow with your input. All suggestions for excellent homework practice will be considered. 

 

We will also be going over your 15 awesome questions and your summer Camp experiences in class tomorrow (in your metacognition notebooks), so please be sure that you have given them some thought. Remember, these were optional during the summer, but they will now serve as our first four assignments! Hooray for those of you who have a head start! If you're a bit lost, read the summer camp attachment below. 

 

Tomorrow also gives us the opportunity to go on a "Pop-field trip" to investigate the albino redwood growing on our campus. Be prepared to walk around outside for about 15 minutes. 

 

Have a lovely evening, and I'm looking forward to our third day tomorrow!

Dixon

Hello Intrepid AP Biology Students! 

 

Behold, your first assignment!

 

Please visit www.google.com/classroom and enter the code: