Course Schedule
GENERAL BIOLOGY I- at S. S. Seward Institute
Fall 2013
Week
Topic
Reading
Unit 1: The Building Blocks of Life
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
1
Exploring Life
The Chemical Context of Life
2
Water and the Fitness of the Environment
Carbon and the Molecular Diversity of Life
3
4
Introduction to Metabolism
Laboratory Chapter-Topic
1-Understanding and Using Scientific
Literature
Using databases: Library tour
Protein folding Lab
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
The Structure and Function of Macromolecules Chapter 5
A Tour of the Cell
Chapter 6
Membrane Structure and Function
Chapter 7
5
6
Assignment
Library Report
Reaction Time
Lab Report
Unit II: The Working Cell
Exam 1
Chapter 8
7
Cellular Respiration: Harvesting Chemical
Energy
Photosynthesis
Chapter 9
8
The Cell Cycle
Chapter 10
Chapter 12
9
Meiosis and Sexual Life Cycles
Chapter 13
1
Qualitative Analysis of Biomolecules
(handout)
2-Techniques in Microscopy
3-Cellular structure Reflects Function
4-Determining How Materials Enter Cells
7-Determining the Properties of an Enzyme
Enzyme Lab
Report
Photosynthesis
Lab Report
Exam 2
8-Measuring Cellular Respiration
26-Photosynthesis (pages 347-348)
Chromatography Handout
9-Determining Chromosome Number in
Mitotic Cells
11
Mendel and the Gene Idea
The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance
The Molecular Basis of Inheritance
Unit III: Genetics
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
12
From Gene to Protein
Chapter 17
13
Thanksgiving –
14
The Organization and Control of Eukaryotic
Genomes
Chapter 19
The Genetic Basis of Development
Descent with modification: A Darwinian
View of Life
Finals Week
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
10
15
15
Genetics
Problems due at
end of lab
Flies 1- Cross Parents
Flies 2- Remove parents
10-Observing Meiosis and Determining
Cross-Over Frequency
Handout Genetics Problems
Flies 3- Count F1 generation
Flies 4-Remove parents
Exam 3
Final
Cumulative
Exam
2
Flies 5- Count F2 generation
DNA Replication & Transcription and
Translation
(Flies 6 if needed)
DNA extraction
Final Lab Report Due No Later Your Final
Exam