Class Schedule
Concepts and Applications of Biology (SMFT 697)
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 HOMEWORK DUE DATES column shows the day homework/project assignments are due.
 READINGS/TUTORIALS in BLACK TEXT are to be read before the start of that day’s class. READINGS in RED TEXT may be read
following the activities for that day’s class. RATs will generally be over the reading assigned for that day’s class, or concepts
from the prior classes!
Topic
Lab Activity/Lecture
Date
7-22
7-23
7-24
7-25
7-26
7-29
7-30
Reading/Tutorial
(Chapter.section)
Nature of Science
Termite Trails Lab
Characteristics of Life

What’s Alive – A Problem-based Inquiry
RAT – Over course syllabus, What & Why of PBL
Finish What’s Alive Lab
Exploring Plant Metabolism
Organic Molecule Structure and Function

Activity – Condensation Rummy
Exploring Metabolism

Field trip to Cistern area in front of Randolph Hall.

Review Animal and Plant Metabolism Tutorials.

Voyage to the Center of a Chloroplast
Chloroplast Voyage RAT
Activity - Condensation Rummy
Genetics
Problem: Sometimes it is All in the Genes
Lecture: Genetic, Mutations and Inheritance
Lab - Lost in Timbuktu – A Problem-Based Inquiry
Problem: Sometimes it is All in the Genes – Exploring Inheritance Patterns
for other genetic conditions
Lecture – Introduction to Inheritance Patterns and Pedigree Analysis
RAT – Pedigrees and Inheritance Patterns
Problem – The Evolution of Creationism Part 1

Sometimes it is All in the Genes – Part IV – Gene Therapy – Learning Issues
Identification
Evolution
Case Study - Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance (Dr. Tanya Godfrey)
Progress Report # 1 - through Genetics
Lecture – Evidence for Evolution
Problem – The Evolution of Creationism Part 2 – The Nature of Science
Molecular & Evolutionary Genetics
Lab –Bacterial Transformation Part I
Case-Based Lab - The Molecular Biology and Evolutionary Genetics of Sickle
Cell Anemia
Lab Bacterial Transformation – Part 2
Lecture - Sexual Selection
Problem – The Evolution of Creationism Part 3 – Assessing Pseudoscience
Evolution-ID Learning Issues Research Discussion
Systematics and Phylogeny
Activity - Evolution of Canimalcules
1
Homework
Chapter 1
-Organic Molecules Tutorial – see
Tutorial section of class web site
Chapter 2.4; 3.2-3.4; 4.1-4.3; 5.15.2; 6.1-6.2 – As you read these
sections focus on organic
molecule structure and general
functions.
-Chapters 54.1
-Chapters 7.2; 9, 10
Termite Trails
Rewrite – Due to
individual Dropbox
folder before you go
to bed!
Chapter 13.1-2
Chapter 11.1; Ch. 12.1 & 12.4
Chapter 14 –for now try to focus
on a general overview of the
process of DNA replication (don’t
get bogged down in the details).
Ch. 13.4 & 13.6
 Evolution and the Nature of
Science – Chapt 1 & Chapt 3 – See
Assignments and Reading section
of class web page.
 Also review Chapter 1 in your text.
 Chapters 16,24,25
 *Micheal Behe Article
 *Ken Miller Article
*Links to these readings are at the bottom
of Part 3 of the Evol-ID Problem & in the
Reading section of the class web site
 Bioskills 3 (pg. B4-6 in back of
textbook) and Chapter 27.1
 Phylogeny 101 – review the pages
up through “How we know what
happened when”
Evolution-ID Learning
Issues Research Due
– be prepared to
share your research
findings with the
class
pGlo Protein Purification Lab
7-31
8-1
8-2
Speciation
Activity – Speciation Concept Mapping
Chapter 26
Ecological Succession
Burning Issues – Forest Fires and Francis Marion National Forest
Field Trip to FMNF – We will meet at the Sewee Visitor Center on Hwy 17
at 9 AM.
Case Based Lab – Invasive Species
Progress Report #2
2
Articles – Posted in the Reading
Section of the class web page
-Crisis in our Forests
-Season of Fire
Chapter 53,55
-- Sickle Cell Lab
Letter - To be done
individually and
submitted to your DB
folder