APES this week

Today- Pollution mind map is due today, if you don't have it done, complete it for a late grade and get it to me tomorrow.

Review - create white sheet

-this weeks homework: Living On Earth podcast, Poster, articles

Have completed by this Wednesday's class: Living on Earth (LOE) from October 16th
http://loe.org/shows/shows.html?programID=15-P13-00042

Articles due Monday (Nov 2nd):  look for something on an oil and a nuclear disaster - something written in the past two years that talks about the lasting effects or the recovery of the area where the disaster occurred. The  Exxon Valdez spill, BP Horizon spill, Fukushima Daiichi incident, Chernobyl... are good ones to research.

Due this Friday-Poster- one box of white sheet per student- it will be assigned.

Tuesday- take released APES exam- this will be a quiz or classwork grade- it will take the entire class

Wednesday- Living on Earth October 16th quiz! Finish white sheet, start population math

Thursday- oil, gas and nuclear energy covered

Friday- oil, gas and nuclear energy continued

Monday (Nov 2nd)- Share out on your articles- one from an oil disaster, one from a nuclear disaster (you have a 2 year window for these).

Window panes due Friday by the end of class

WORD LIST- for DNA  due Friday 10-23-15

1. Complementary base pairs- The nucleotides that fit together to form the DNA double helix, adenine with thymine and cytosine with guanine .

Here is a visual, if the original strand of DNA has the following bases:    A T C G A T T C G A T (ORIGINAL OR TEMPLATE)Then the complimentary bases would be: T A G C T A A G C T A (COMPLIMENT TO THE ORIGINAL)

2. Replication- the process of copying the original strand of DNA to form a new, IDENTICAL, strand of DNA so that when the cell divides the daughter cells have the same exact genetic information as the parent cell.

3. Mutation- any change in someone’s strand of DNA, it could be a few letters (bases) or just one base.

4. Protein synthesis- using a cells DNA to code for and then make a specific protein needed by the cell, three types of RNA are needed to do this.

5. Trait- a physical characteristic or feature of a person (ex; brown hair, tall, diabetic, blue eyes)

6. Genes- the segments of a person’s DNA that code for a certain trait.

7. Transcription- when mRNA copies a segment of DNA in order to take the message out of the nucleus and to a ribosome. It must be written in the RNA’s language which uses Uracil in place of thymine for a nitrogen base. The uracil still pairs up with Adenine.

8. mRNA- messenger RNA is the RNA responsible for sneaking into the nucleus of a cell and copying off a certain piece of DNA and then carrying that piece of the code out to a ribosome.

9. Codon- three letters of a mRNA strand that determine which amino acid is to be made by a ribosome.

10. Translation- when the code made by the mRNA gets turned into an amino acid in a ribosome.

11. rRNA- is ribosomal RNA, it’s what makes up the ribosome and turns a mRNA codon strand into an amino acid strand.

12. tRNA- is the type of RNA that puts all of the amino acids in the correct order to form the proper protein. It has a complimentary RNA code for the newly produced amino acid to hook on to.

13. Peptide bond- it’s what connects one amino acid to another to make a complete protein. a long chain of these amino acids can be refered to as either a protein or a polypeptide.

14. Hydrogen bond- weak bond that holds nitrogen bases (A with T or C with G) together.

15. Anti-codon- located at the bottom of the tRNA , it has the opposite nitrogen bases of the codon and its purpose is to make sure that the amino acids are returned to the proper place on the mRNA strand being translated at the ribosome! This insures that the codons are put in the correct order, regardless of who gets back to the ribosome first.

Use these links to help you visualize what's going on:

DNA replication

http://www.johnkyrk.com/DNAreplication.html

proteins synthesis (RNA and transcription/ translation tutorial)

http://www.johnkyrk.com/er.html

BIG PICTURE STUFF: DNA and heredity

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

AP Environmental Science Homework for this week

YOU BIOMES are due TOMORROW-  we will begin presenting them tomorrow as well.

For tonight (if it didn't work in class today) download PRI's LIVING ON EARTH podcasts for: September 25th and October 9th. 

here's the link for the progam as it appears on your computer:

http://loe.org/shows/toc.html?year=2015
It looks much different on your phone, but the dates are obvious, just click and download! (this is what the podcast screen looks like )

TUESDAY  and Wednesday : Listen to the September 25th podcast- take notes on the content as you listen.  It's 51 minutes long so break it up, do half Tuesday and half Wednesday (do whatever you're schedule allows time for)

WEDNESDAY IN CLASS- Wear comfortable shoes and have a jacket in case it's cold out. We will be heading to the track for class. You will need to have earbuds and your phone with the Oct. 9th podcast downloaded! Be SURE it is CHARGED!!!!!

Thursday in class we will finish up with our project presentations!  Half DAY- NO SCHOOL on Friday!

Today's Biology classwork

Go here to easily access the links you'll need!
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCAQIDAAahUKEwiztMrDirPIAhWBHT4KHWupCXU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwebcache.googleusercontent.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcache%3AQglym6OHyU4J%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.saddlespace.org%2Fkozickm%2Fbiology1415%2Fcms_file%2Fshow%2F35261245.doc%253Ft%253D1420839106%2B%26cd%3D1%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&usg=AFQjCNFMSSD8a1q212d98Lr1elfUFoGJ_w&sig2=ips1fxabc-oIvPheY8oyJw

Honors biology homework for this weekend!

Fix your window panes! they will be averaged for a test grade! Hand them in Monday - no later.


Watch this tutorial and take notes as needed!!! If it's new and you don't know it - right it down/ draw it out :)


https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat/cells/cellular-division/v/phases-of-meiosis


This one is good too, but I expect you to watch the Kahn one and take notes on it not this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33VbhIENEJI