Next week stuff: content posters in lieu of window panes, book info.

Here is your info on content posters, remember, we'll cover a few of them in class.


Content poster: There are only 12 total. YOU MUST DRAW A VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF THE SUBJECT THEN DESCRIBE IT, LABEL IT (IF IT APPLIES), MAKE AN ANALOGY TO EXPLAIN IT AND/OR GIVE EXAMPLES OF IT. It’s kind of like doing window panes, but you don’t have to use it in a sentence and it should be mostly a visual representation. Basically; draw a picture and then tell me everything you can about the picture!
We’ll do 5 today :
1. Most common non-organic compounds in living things!
(oxygen, carbon- dioxide and water) which is the most plentiful? WATER
2. control groups
3. pH scale
4. Interdependent relationships in nature
5. Biomass pyramid
6. things that affect how well an enzyme works
7. diffusion of particles( it can be active, passive or facilitated)
8. Use of stored chemical energy (food, sugar) by the cells (it has to be ATP).Helpful hint: oil has to go to a refinery before it can be used as gas for your car.
9. Cell specialization : every cell has the same general parts, however, some have more of certain organelles than others do. In a plant, the leaves will have more chlorophyll than the stems. In humans, the muscles and sperm have more mitochondria than any other cells.
10. Tests for organic compounds: brown paper for lipids, Iodine for starch
11. Acid Rain- what toxins contribute to it, what is the effect on the environment?
12. microscopes – 3 types- detail which is the most powerful and which was the first.

your book topics will be from some current stuff and some of the trouble spots from the benchmark

Just the SAS that's due on Thursday should be handed in on Thursday

Test on heredity will probably be Wednesday, even though we'll be finished with the subject matter on Monday. Tuesday we start DNA

GENETICS site to go to

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/

USE THE ABOVE SITE TO GET FLUENT IN GENETICS!

DON'T FORGET TO DO ALL 4 VIRTUAL LABS BY THURSDAY- WE'LL HAVE A QUIZ ON THEM ON FRIDAY, SO YOU NEED TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE TRIED THEM BY THURSDAY'S CLASS.

QUIZ TOMORROW ON BASIC MITOSIS VS. MEIOSIS STUFF, AS WELL AS PUNNETT SQUARES, ESPECIALLY SEX LINKED TRAITS AND BLOOD TYPING!

DNA/RNA song

I hope you enjoy this, my son helped me write it!
Replication, transcription and translation song – to "The Adam’s Family" theme song
There’s adenine and thymine
Cytosine and guanine
A phosphate and a sugar
And that makes DNA
DNA(clap, clap) DNA( clap, clap) DNA,DNA, DNA (clap, clap)

When thymine goes a missin’
Uracil is there to listen
It sends a little message
Because it’s RNA
RNA (clap, clap) RNA (clap, clap) RNA, RNA, RNA (clap, clap)

Transcription’s then completed
the code gets translated
acids are created
Then proteins are made!
Hip hip hooray! (clap, clap) Hip hip hooray! (clap, clap)proteins are made, proteins are made, proteins are made!!!!! (clap, clap)

Window pane for 3-18-09

nitrogen bases,nucleotide, codominant, incomplete dominance,allele, homozygous, heterozygous, genotype, phenotype, dominant, recessive, trait, transcription, translation, gamete, zygote, base pairing, homolgous chromosomes, codon, meiosis

Window pane terms for 3/11/09

optimum, equilibrium, interdependent, legume, bioenergetic, photon, saprophyte, thylakoid membrane, pigment, chlorophyll, calvin cycle, glycolysis, yeast, lichen, lactic acid fermentation, denature, phosphate group, compound microscope,
scanning electron microscope, sulfur dioxide

LISTEN TO SCIENCE FRIDAY ANYTIME AND BY TOPIC!

GO TO THIS SITE AND THEN CHOOSE A TOPIC RELATED TO BIOLOGY TO LISTEN TO. BY TOPIC THE SEGMENTS ARE SHORTER SO YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO TWO SEGMENTS AND WRITE IT UP ACCORDINGLY

http://www.kidsnet.org/sfkc/

look under the topic section
choose topic
click on it!
then when it gets to the next page click on the left hand side of the section of the table that says "click here to go to the resource that relates to this benchmark"
click on the first link next to the part that say "science friday program"

Finally click on the purple tab at the top that says "Hear the program"

click on the windows media to listen ( if that is what you have) and then--ENJOY!