Cell Biology Class Schedule
Week
Topic
Monday Activities
Wednesday Activities
Week 1
(9/2910/3)
Scientific method, What is
Science, Survey of the
Kingdoms
Introduction to the class
Buy books
Homework: do the first worksheet
Worksheet quiz and work
Lecture/application questions
Week 2
(10/610/10)
Week 3
(10/1310/17)
Evolution
Worksheet quiz and work
Lecture/application questions
Cell chemistry, carbohydrates,
lipids, amino acids, proteins,
nucleotides, nucleic acids
Worksheet quiz and work
Worksheet lecture/work
Worksheet lecture/work
Lab Natural Selection (10 points)
Microscope lab due
Exam 1 (Sci Method, Evolution)
Lab: Cell Chemistry (20 points)
Natural Selection lab due
Week 4
(10/2010/24)
Tour of the cell, structure and
function of membranes,
transporters and
communication between cells
Enzyme structure, function,
catalysis, endergonic and
exergonic reactions, redox
reactions, potential and kinetic
energy
Light and dark reactions of
photosynthesis
Worksheet quiz and work
Lecture/application questions
Worksheet lecture/work
Lab Microscopes and Cells (10 points)
Cell Chemistry lab due
Worksheet quiz and work
Worksheet lecture/work
Energy production, glycolysis
and Krebs cycle, electron
transport and oxidative
phosphorylation, anaerobic
Worksheet quiz and work
Worksheet lecture/work
Exam 2 (Cell chemistry, organic molecules,
and cells)
Portfolio I due
Lab Membranes (20 points)
Cells lab due
Worksheet lecture/work
Lab Enzymes (20 points)
Membranes lab due
Bibliography Due
Lab Photosynthesis (10 points)
Enzymes lab due
Week 5
(10/2710/31)
Week 6
(11/311/7)
Week 7
(11/1011/14)
Worksheet quiz and work
Lecture/application questions
Week 8
(11/1711/21)
Week 9
(11-2411/28)
Week 10
(12/112/5)
Finals
week
(12/812/12)
metabolism
Mitosis and Meiosis
Worksheet quiz and work
Lecture/application questions
Exam 3 (Enzymes, Photosynthesis and
Cellular Respiration)
Lab Mitosis (10 points)
Photosynthesis lab due
Mendelian genetics,
independent assortment,
crossing over, sex
chromosomes, linkage,
recombination
DNA structure and replication,
protein synthesis, gene
regulation, mutation
Worksheet quiz and work
Lecture/application questions
Worksheet lecture/work
Lab Genetics workshop/set up DNA
fingerprinting (10 points)
Mitosis lab due
Research Notes due
Exam 4 (Mitosis, Meiosis, genetics, DNA
replication and protein synthesis)
Portfolio II Due
Lab DNA fingerprinting (20 points)
Genetics lab due
DNA fingerprinting lab due
Final project assessment fair
Final project assessment fair
Worksheet quiz and work
Worksheet lecture/work