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Read Vernier Lab 4a and 4b thoroughly.
Need spinach, alfalfa and dandelion.
Day 1 - Do Plant Pigment Chromatography. Answer ?s.
Day 2 - Do Photosynthesis lab. Answer ?s.
Read Vernier lab thoroughly.
Day 1 - Do Lab.
Day 2 - Count cultures. Do Analysis. Answer ?s 1-8.
Each team needs 2 LB+AMP plates and 1 LB agar plate for Ecoli culture.
Use Ecoli BL21 and pGFP Plasmid
Read Wards lab thoroughly.
Refer to Teacher Tips (Vernier)
This activity can take 3-4 weeks. Some outside of class time.
Day 1 - Part A and Part B
Each team is assigned a monohybrid cross or a dihybrid cross or a sex-linked cross.
All teams observe "Wild type" (Table 1) and assigned "type"(Table 2). Morgue your assigned adults (P) after observation.
Day 2 - Do Optional Exercise "Polytene Chromosome" using Wild type flys.
Day 3 - As adults (F1) emerge observe sex and mutations and place in Table 3. This will probably be several days after the parental adults were morgued.
Day 4 - Prepare fresh culture vial and transfer 5 mating pairs of F1 generation.
Day 5 - When you see larva (7-10 days) remove adults (F1).
Day 6 - Observe adults (F2) as they emerge for sex and mutations.
Answer ?s for your cross 1-9.
Prepare presentation using questions 1-6 to share with class.
Read Wards background and Part III and Vernier Lab 10A and 10B thoroughly.
Day 1 - Blood Pressure Lab 10a. Answer ?s
Day 2 - Heart Rate Lab 10b. Answer ?s
Day 3 - Part III Investigating Heart Rate in Daphnia.
Answer ?s 5-7
Read Vernier's Lab 12 thoroughly.
Day 1 - Dissolved oxygen lab. Answer ?s
Day 2 - Primary Aquatic Productivity. Answer ?s
* Note general guide to aquatic organisms at beginning of lab
Upon completion of AP Biology the student will be able to understand advanced concepts associated with molecules and cells, genetics and evolution, and organisms and populations. They will correlate the conceptual information with the major theme of life. In addition, students will improve upon their laboratory skills, while gaining an understanding of scientific methodology/technology as well as the practical, social and environmental applications of biology.
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List of AP Biology Guidelines
Lab 1 - Osmosis/Diffusion
Read Ward's Lab 1 thoroughly.
Fill out your prediction for Table 1.
For Part III each team will be assigned a specific solution concentration.
Day 1 - Do Part I. Answer ?s 1-3
Day 2 - Do Part II and prepare for Part III. Answer ?s 4-12
Day 3 - Do Part III. Answer ?s 13-15
Day 4 - Do Part IV. Answer ?s 16-17
Sample data for pg 19, table 2 (1% - .25, 2% - 1.23 and 3% - 2.19)
Fill out your prediction for Table 1.
For Part III each team will be assigned a specific solution concentration.
Day 1 - Do Part I. Answer ?s 1-3
Day 2 - Do Part II and prepare for Part III. Answer ?s 4-12
Day 3 - Do Part III. Answer ?s 13-15
Day 4 - Do Part IV. Answer ?s 16-17
Sample data for pg 19, table 2 (1% - .25, 2% - 1.23 and 3% - 2.19)
Lab 2 - Enzyme Action
Read Vernier Lab 2 thoroughly.
Read Wards Lab 2 background.
Day 1 - Measure Enzyme Concentration and Effect of Temp
Day 2 - Test effect of pH and process data (3 graphs)
Answer ?s 1-4 and 6-8.
Read Wards Lab 2 background.
Day 1 - Measure Enzyme Concentration and Effect of Temp
Day 2 - Test effect of pH and process data (3 graphs)
Answer ?s 1-4 and 6-8.
Lab 3 - Mitosis/Meiosis
Read Wards Lab 3 thoroughly.
Day 1 - Part 1, A and B (need whitefish, onion tip, garlic)
Day 2 - Part 1, C. Answer ?s 1-3
Day 3 - Part II (cross-over sordaria - T-3-1 Vernier) Answer ?s 4-8.
Day 1 - Part 1, A and B (need whitefish, onion tip, garlic)
Day 2 - Part 1, C. Answer ?s 1-3
Day 3 - Part II (cross-over sordaria - T-3-1 Vernier) Answer ?s 4-8.
Lab 4- Plant Pigments/Photosynthesis
Read Vernier Lab 4a and 4b thoroughly.
Need spinach, alfalfa and dandelion.
Day 1 - Do Plant Pigment Chromatography. Answer ?s.
Day 2 - Do Photosynthesis lab. Answer ?s.
Lab 5 - Cell Respiration
Read Wards lab thoroughly.
Order Cascdia Peas from Territorial Seed Company. Germinate for 3 days (Vernier pg 5-1T, #3)
Day 1 - Do lab. Answer ?s 1-13.
Order Cascdia Peas from Territorial Seed Company. Germinate for 3 days (Vernier pg 5-1T, #3)
Day 1 - Do lab. Answer ?s 1-13.
Lab 6a - Transformation of E.coli
Read Vernier lab thoroughly.
Day 1 - Do Lab.
Day 2 - Count cultures. Do Analysis. Answer ?s 1-8.
Each team needs 2 LB+AMP plates and 1 LB agar plate for Ecoli culture.
Use Ecoli BL21 and pGFP Plasmid
Lab 6b- Restriction Enzymes
Read Vernier lab thoroughly.
Do "Intro to Gel Analysis Activity" on HP computer.
Use Lambda DNA from Fermentas.
Freeze enzymes.
Make gels with stain and view under Blue Digital Bioimaging System.
Take photo with ProScope.
Order stain from Vernier.
Day 1 - Make gel
Day 2- Run gel and photograph
Day 3 - Measure and Analyze. Answer ?s 1-10.
Do "Intro to Gel Analysis Activity" on HP computer.
Use Lambda DNA from Fermentas.
Freeze enzymes.
Make gels with stain and view under Blue Digital Bioimaging System.
Take photo with ProScope.
Order stain from Vernier.
Day 1 - Make gel
Day 2- Run gel and photograph
Day 3 - Measure and Analyze. Answer ?s 1-10.
Lab 7 - Genetics of Drosophila
Read Wards lab thoroughly.
Refer to Teacher Tips (Vernier)
This activity can take 3-4 weeks. Some outside of class time.
Day 1 - Part A and Part B
Each team is assigned a monohybrid cross or a dihybrid cross or a sex-linked cross.
All teams observe "Wild type" (Table 1) and assigned "type"(Table 2). Morgue your assigned adults (P) after observation.
Day 2 - Do Optional Exercise "Polytene Chromosome" using Wild type flys.
Day 3 - As adults (F1) emerge observe sex and mutations and place in Table 3. This will probably be several days after the parental adults were morgued.
Day 4 - Prepare fresh culture vial and transfer 5 mating pairs of F1 generation.
Day 5 - When you see larva (7-10 days) remove adults (F1).
Day 6 - Observe adults (F2) as they emerge for sex and mutations.
Answer ?s for your cross 1-9.
Prepare presentation using questions 1-6 to share with class.
Lab 8 - Population Genetics
Read Wards lab thoroughly.
Use Vernier Teacher tips
Day 1 - PTC Paper and Ideal Population. Answer ?s 1-4
Day 2 - Selection, Heterozygote Advantage and Genetic Drift.
Answer ?s 5-13
Use Vernier Teacher tips
Day 1 - PTC Paper and Ideal Population. Answer ?s 1-4
Day 2 - Selection, Heterozygote Advantage and Genetic Drift.
Answer ?s 5-13
Lab 9 - Transpiration
Read Ward background and Vernier Lab thoroughly.
Use Method 1 for Surface Area (photo)
Complete Extension 1.
Day 1 - Control and assigned environmental factor.
Day 2 - Collect data from whole class. Surface Area.
Day 3 - Answer ?s 1-16.
Use woody stem plant or geranium.
Use Method 1 for Surface Area (photo)
Complete Extension 1.
Day 1 - Control and assigned environmental factor.
Day 2 - Collect data from whole class. Surface Area.
Day 3 - Answer ?s 1-16.
Use woody stem plant or geranium.
Lab 10 - Physiology of Circulatory System
Read Wards background and Part III and Vernier Lab 10A and 10B thoroughly.
Day 1 - Blood Pressure Lab 10a. Answer ?s
Day 2 - Heart Rate Lab 10b. Answer ?s
Day 3 - Part III Investigating Heart Rate in Daphnia.
Answer ?s 5-7
Lab 11 - Animal Behavior
Read Wards Lab 11 thoroughly.
Vernier's teacher tips.
Day 1 - Behavior of Pillbugs
Day 2 - Courtship in Drosophila
Answer ?s 1-9
Vernier's teacher tips.
Day 1 - Behavior of Pillbugs
Day 2 - Courtship in Drosophila
Answer ?s 1-9
Lab 12 - Dissolved O2/Primary Aquatic Productivity
Read Vernier's Lab 12 thoroughly.
Day 1 - Dissolved oxygen lab. Answer ?s
Day 2 - Primary Aquatic Productivity. Answer ?s
* Note general guide to aquatic organisms at beginning of lab
15 comments:
I read The Live of a Cell; Notes of a Biology Watcher and The Medusa and the Snail; More Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas. I thought that these books were very interesting and brought a lot of different ideas about how to look at life. Lewis Thomas states in the beginning of The Lives of a Cell; Notes of a Biology Watcher, “We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented, occupied.” I had never thought about cells as more than a part of me until I read this statement. I sat and pondered this for a few minutes and I realized that this was very true. I am made up of these cells and without them I couldn’t do my everyday tasks. I am rented, occupied, shared by these cells. They use me as way to share information and interact with the outside environment. Thomas understood that life without cells would be nothing. We could not “move a muscle, drum a finger, think a thought” without them. Thomas then compares Earth to a single cell, “I have been trying to think of earth as a kind of organism, but it is no go, I cannot think of it this way. It is too big, too complex, with too many working parts lacking visible connection. The other night, driving through a hilly, wooded part of southern New England, I wondered about this. If not like and organism, what is it like, what is it most like? Then satisfactorily for that moment, it came to me: it is most like a single cell.” I think that Thomas was very smart in this. Earth is much like a single cell, many complex systems that make it up as a whole. Thomas talks about communication from the cellular level to the pheremonal and cerebral level. This is later in the book but just as important as the relationship between our cells and us. “We are born knowing how to use language. The capacity to recognize syntax, to organize and deploy words into intelligible sentences, is innate in the human mind. We are programmed to identify patterns and generate grammar.” “We work at this all our lives, and collectively we give it life, but we do not exert the least control over language, not as individuals or committees or academies or governments. Language, once it comes alive, behaves like an active, motile organism. Parts of it are always changed, by ceaseless activity to which all of us committed; new words are invented and inserted, old ones have their meaning altered or abandoned.” Language is important to all of us. I think that Thomas understood that language is what holds us together. “If language is at the core of social existence, holding us together, housing us in meaning, it may also be safe to say that art and music are functions of the same universal, genetically determined mechanism.” Science is complicated and joins all the aspects of life together; languages, art, and music become one. To end his book of these 29 essays he wrote: “Oxygen is not a major worry for us, unless we let fly with enough nuclear explosions to kill off the green cells in the sea; if we do that, of course, we are in for strangling.” The Medusa and the Snail; More Notes of a Biology Watcher didn’t inspire me as much as The Live of a Cell; Notes of a Biology Watcher. I liked the relationship between the sea snail and the Medusa jellyfish, which was the inspiration for the title of the book. This was mainly an example of how parts of the earth can be in a community and and individual as well. Thomas rejoices the creation of DNA and its ability to change. Without the changes there would not be any evolutionary progress. Thomas was a very smart man and knows that life without change would be boring and pointless. I liked the way Thomas thought in, The Live of a Cell; Notes of a Biology Watcher and The Medusa and the Snail; More Notes of a Biology Watcher because he understood a lot of complex situations and made them a little easier to understand and made me think of life in a lot of different ways.
Lewis Thomas has a brillinat way of wording sentences. Both 'The Lives of a Cell' and 'The Medusa and the snail' had great flow. Because of this was able to take a deeper look in what he was saying. These books have an incredible way of making you think. I love the way how he compaires things to make points, for example the earth to a cell, and other metaphysical meanings such as beehives and anthills acting more like a single entity rather than societies. Another example that made me think was the relation ship between the jellyfish and the sail. I've taken quiet a few philosophy classes and have read many books that remind me of these and I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who'd likes to read things that make you think about the world in which we live.
I agree with both of you in stating that these books make you think a lot about life. I too liked the comparisons of "earth as a cell" or "anthills as a single socieity". I'm glad you enjoyed the philosphy of this biologist!! Good summaries!
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To start off I'm going to say that I enjoyed these books MUCH more than the previous one I read. The reason for this is that it's not just a bunch of different nature scene descriptions that seem to drag on longer than the seasons they describe in them. In this one Lewis Thomas wrote books that are more like a collection of thoughts and connections he made between nature and other things. For example his comparison of social animals to humans (like ants) and comparing all the characteristics of both "super organisms" (his description of how the home of these organisms seem to be living itself.) Also he went over many of the things he thought should be changed in our world. Throughout the books he maintains a sense of humor that really made it easier to read these books. His sarcastic comments about how humans panic when compared to certain animals, which he explained is because we wouldn't like to think of ourselves as this specific animal (like ants.) He really goes into how language is what separates humans from other animals. He says that language itself is not something we just learned one day, he argues that the capacity for language, the understanding of grammar etc. are already hardwired into the human mind as much as the knowledge of swimming to a fish is. Another part I found funny is when he talks about how recently he feels as if he's just a tool for his cells, just there so they can get what they need, or more specifically how he feels that his mitochondria are sort of taking advantage of him. Like him I never really thought that the cells in my body might actually not even be a part of me, they're just there, using me for their advantage. Also, throughout the books, he has an obsession with music and is always making connections with it (for example comparing the unity and interdependence of all animals to an orchestra.) Once again, this book was A LOT better than the first one I read and this would be a good book for those that like philosophical stuff or thinking about "the big picture." I enjoyed it and hope that the other books we read are more like this one.
so i really liked these books they were very interesting and were written in just a way that you could enjoy and laugh sometimes while you learned. the insight of the different perspectives of how to look at life were compelling and eye opening. he makes you realize that you would be nothing without your cells constantly dividing or as he puts it "occupied"
i love how he connects things and compares things to make you look deeper and understand better. he really does have a way to make your mind wander.i also love the way he compares and intertwines music and the concept of an orcestra into the animal kindom.
when you think of life and the cells in your body the way he describes them it opens a door i never realized was even there. i thought of everything about me, being part of me i never thought about how the cells do what they do for their benifit which instills my exsitance. all in all these books were amazing and i hope anyone with a craving for science can have a chance to read them because i'm sure i had the chance
I really enjoyed the books; I found them to be very intrusting in many more ways than one. I love how it combined and contrasted different ideas of nature all rolled into one two book. I also agreed to a few of his ideas of how to change our world in to create a larger order. I have often debated what it was that truly separated us from animals; I found that Lewis’s ideas that it our ability to communicate with one another to be very intrusting. But I still oppose this idea because I find that all creatures find ways to convey their sense of nature by a communication on their own. Reading his book was great his dire sense of humor was what kept me wonting to read more. I really enjoyed these two books because they didn’t just look at the small things in life but of a bigger picture to life and the life of all others. I really hope that my next book will this great of read as the last.
Two very good books that make you think a lot about the world in which we live in is The Lives of a Cell and The Medusa and the Snail by Lewis Thomas. When I first started reading these books I was just trying to read it quickly so I could get these books done with but I didn’t really like them all that much and it just went in one ear and out the other ear when I did this. So, after reading the first few pages like this I decided I better just slow down and not read this book as fast as I can. After I slowed down I started to think about what these books were saying and it really made me start to think about the world in which we live in. Also after I slowed down I really came to like these books. These books cover a lot of different topics on how they are written which makes them interesting because every few pages there is a new topic or section. Lewis Thomas also keeps these books interesting by the way he writes about things which make them funny throughout most of these books. One of the elements you see Lewis Thomas referring to quite a bit is music. In one section this is what he says about music, “Music would give a fairer picture of what we are really like than some of the other things we might be sending.” So in this section he is talking about how music is a language pretty much and it teaches about people. Another section that I kind of liked and made me think a lot about this thing was death. Lewis Thomas talks about how when people die they always seem to be happy and peaceful. This made me think about death and how people are peaceful when they die so when someone dies we shouldn’t stay sad about them we should be happy that they are peaceful now. There are so many good and interesting things I could talk about in these books that I could go on and on about. These books were very good they make you think so much. I hope who ever reads these books won’t make the same mistake I made at first of reading the beginning of the book quickly and not really thinking about what is said because these books are very interesting.
Billy, I'm glad you recognized the big picture and got to do some deeper thinking!
Jordan, I'm really glad you slowed down and enjoyed the book. Because there was so much thinking to do, I had to read it in smaller doses, too!
The subtitle, Notes of a Biology Watcher, describe both “The Medusa and the Snail” as well as “The Lives of a Cell” extremely well. I was very intrigued by the books; however I found them to be a little random with no set plot. The book to me seemed literally like notes or thoughts a person had written down and compiled into a book. “The Lives of a Cell” had many interesting ideas. One of my favorite chapters was about vibes and how everyone and everything has their own odor. According to this, living things leave a piece of themselves everywhere they go and on everything they touch. “The Lives of the Cell” was less interesting to me then “The Medusa and the Snail”. I thought that the second book was much more fascinating, easier to read, and the views within really made me think. I could relate to what the author had to say. One interesting idea was that as humans, we are DNA mutants, just mere accidents. Apparently, according to Lewis Thomas, DNA would mutate again and again by chance and this created the many diverse organisms. Overall, the driving force of evolution is error. These books have opened up my view on evolution as well as several other topics including the obsession with health and how people are possibly destroying new mutations not allowing them to become a species, etc. On the whole, I enjoyed these books more than I thought I would and the randomness was refreshing; you didn't have to be bored with long blurbs about scientific talk that was too sophisticated to understand. These scientific books were somewhat enjoyable as well as eye opening.
I really enjoyed this book alot more than the previous one that I read. I agree with Megan, I didnt think about how important the cells in our body are to us. They carry out alot of important tasks that we couldn't do on our own. Our bodies are amazing works of art; beautiful and complex, much like a computer. Our cells are preprogrammed when we are born to know how to do specific things, such as talking at a later age. Speaking is just a natural thing we pick up from family members as we grow older and learn, and cells are what help us do that. In all of Thomas's essays, which was 29 of them, he turned major, complicating things into understandable problems that everyday people can understand and ponder. He made me understand how to really think about life, and everything in it, including our bodies. It boggles my mind at strange our world is; it can be complicating but yet again simple at the same time. I enjoyed this book very much and if you're the type of person that is constantly wracking your brain for impossible answers to impossible questions this is the book for you!
Taelor and Jorie,
This book has some really amazing ideas. I too think it is weird to think we leave small pieces of ourselves everywhere we've been. Evolution is the piece that pulls all of biology together.
Both "The Lives of the Cell" and "The Medusa and the Snail" by Lewis Thomas were very intriguing. While many of the other books assigned to me for AP were slow at first, these were interesting from the first page to the last.
I enjoyed "The Lives of the Cell" because it compared basic cellular structure and function to concepts that every human being is familiar with. One of the analogies that remains prominent in my memory would be the comparison of a cell to the earth. The parts of the cell working together was a topic that I had not thought about in detail before, and the simple wording of the book was just what I needed. I also liked how it was written in a more casual manner, as if Lewis was leveling with me. Sometimes it is difficult for me not to become instantly bored when presented with reading material that is extremely scientific in the wording.The fact that everything is made up of cells and we could not function without them was also highlighted in an interesting new manner. All in all, "The Lives of a Cell" was perhaps my favorite AP book that I have read.
"The Medusa and the Snail" was interesting to me, though less so than the first book by Lewis.I enjoyed learning more about DNA and different organisms, however. Part of my favoritism towards "The Lives of a Cell" might be the focus on evolution in "The Medusa and the Snail". I am not as interested in that topic as I am in others. Although it was not my favorite, I did enjoy the comparisons of organisms to one another. It made me think in a different way bacause I was not simply presented with facts, but ideas and analogies
Anna,
I am delighted with your "favorite" choice. I too enjoyed this book for the writing style. Great analysis! Mrs. Cochran
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