| x1 01 |
12 Jan |
What are species? Naming conventions, Nested groups,
Taxonomic hierarchies, Continuity of life, phylogeny |
Count differences among 3 sequences on p. 11 |
| x1 02 |
14 Jan |
Metric system of measurement, statistics, Induction,
Deduction, Hypotheses, Experiments, Questions & Curiosity |
Express three times a week using
exponential notation. |
| x1 03 |
16 Jan |
Natural selection, attributes of organisms, macromolecules, RNA and early life, law vs science, deducing and inducing
evolution, intelligent design? |
If B & C start equally abundant, but B can double 3 times per day and C 4 times per day, what will be
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19 Jan |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday |
proportion of B after 1 day? |
| x1 04 |
21 Jan |
Isotopes, stable and radioactive, exponential
decay, formulas of decay, reactions, release of energy, equilibrium,
oxidation, productivity, units of energy |
Photosynthesis is an endergonic reaction - true or false? |
| x1 05 |
23 Jan |
Water: polarity, the hydrogen bond, density of ice, solvent,
solubility, pH, acidity, evaporation, transpiration,
precipitation, dewpoint, aquifer, groundwater, residence time,
invasive
species, hydrophobic, hydrophilic |
If 2000 m3 of water enters a lake with a volume of 1 km3 each second, what is the residence time? |
| x1 06 |
26 Jan |
Information storage, linear, directional, biological
polymers, DNA, protein, DNA sequences, complementary, possible sequences,
sequence similarity, genetic uniqueness, RNA, the central dogma |
How many different DNA sequences 6 bases long are there? |
| x1 07 |
28 Jan |
Domains, horizontal
transmission, direct sequencing, Petri dish, doubling
time, exponential versus geometric growth, cultural growth cycle, the log
scale, sources of energy & carbon, symbiosis, Rhizobium, |
What is the difference between exponential and geometric growth? |
| x1 08 |
30 Jan |
Disease, infectious, Koch's
postulates, contagious disease, vector, prevalence, incidence, quarantine,
wastewater treatment, Chicago river reversal, antibiotics, evolution of
resistance, virulence, public vs individual, minimizing resistance |
Name three new (last 100 years) diseases. |
| x1 09 |
2 Feb |
Doing experiments on populations, Control group, Treatment group, Why use randomization?, subpopulation, categorical variable, causation, repeatability, replication, reproducibility, What makes a hypothesis testable? |
Calculate the mean and variance of these values: 7, 8, 4, 11, 12, 6, 11. |
| x1 10 |
4
Feb |
Protists -small and aquatic, structurally complex, cause some diseases,
uses, classification, electron microscopy, paraphyletic, endosymbiotic
theory, multicelluarity, ciliates,
biological species concept, mating types |
If 4 stocks of a species all have different mating types, which other stocks will the first one mate with? |
| x1 11 |
6 Feb |
Plants -capture energy from sun, shoot & root, soil
parts-air, water, minerals (sand, silt, clay), organic matter, organisms;
origins of soils, soil surface, IL corn and
soybeans, drainage, origins of crops, life cycles of plants |
If a person needs 2200 Calories per day, how would you estimate how many grams
they need to eat? |
| x1 12 |
9 Feb |
Reasons to exclude viruses as organisms, plasmids, words
describing disease, capsids, antibody, antigen, vaccination, lysis,
lysogeny, new viral diseases, where do new diseases come from? |
How do immune individuals reduce the rate of spread of
a disease? |
| x1 13 |
11 Feb |
Organisms have the potential to grow exponentially, division
in bacteria, powers of two,
exponential and geometric growth equations, per capita growth rate,
survivorship, expressing reproductive rates |
If a population can increase 40% per year, how many times
bigger will it be after 10 years? |
| x1 14 |
13 Feb |
Fertilization requires special cells =gametes, meiosis halves the # of chromosomes, haploid & diploid,
cycles & lines, sex vs reproduction, sexes -animals vs plants,
apomixis, selfing, uniparental reproduction, breeds |
If you wanted to develop a new variety of peas that was sweeter, how would you do it? |