Biology Syllabus :
Third Quarter 2014
All assignments are due by Friday of the week assigned, unless otherwise noted.
Complete sentences are required to receive full credit on the Section reading questions.
Modern Biology
Topics and Activities
Chapter Refs./Assignments
January 6-10
Plant structure and function
Read pages 615-618
Section review # 2,4 and 6 ONLY
Plant lab
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Jan 13-17
Photosynthesis
Energy/ Light Reactions
Read pages 111-116
Sec. Review #1-5 page 116
Vocabulary: Define and use in a sentence
1. Photosynthesis
2. Chlorophyll
3. Choloroplast
4. Electron transport chain
5. Stroma
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Read pages 117 – 120
Section questions: #1-5 page 120
Lab: Photosynthesis
Vocabulary:
1. C3 plant
2. C4 pathway
No School Monday 1/20
3. CAM
MLK Holiday
4. Carbon fixation
5. PGAL
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Jan. 20-24
The Calvin Cycle
Chapter 7 – Read pages 127-131
Section 7-1 questions #2-5
Read pages 133-139
Section 7-2 questions #1-4
Vocabulary:
1. cellular respiration
2. aerobic
3. anaerobic
4. glycolysis
5. Kreb’s cycle
6. fermentation
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Feb.3-7
Cellular respiration
Complete the worksheets provided
and human body systems
Respiration Lab
Jan.27- 31
Introduction to
Cellular Respiration
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Feb 10-14
Cell Reproduction
Cellular Reproduction
Chapter 8 : Read pages 145-147
Page 147 Section 8-1 questions #1-3
Read pages 148-151
Page 151 Section 8-2 questions #1-6
Vocabulary: DEFINE AND USE IN A SENTENCE
1. autosome
NO SCHOOL
2. sex chromosome
Monday 2/10
3. haploid
4. diploid
5.chromatid
6.histone
7. cell cycle
8. cleavage furrow
9. cell plate
10. cytokinesis
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Feb. 17-21
Meiosis
Chapter 8: Read pages 153-156
NO SCHOOL Monday 2/17
Vocabulary: DEFINE AND USE IN A SENTENCE
1. asexual reproduction
2. sexual reproduction
3. crossing over
4. gamete
5. synapsis
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Feb. 24-28
DNA/Replication
Chapter 10: Read pages 185 –189
Section questions #1-5
Vocabulary: Define and use in a sentence
1. double helix
2. purine
3. pyrimidine
4. DNA
5. mutation
6. replication
7. RNA
8. nitrogen-containing base
9. deoxyribose
10. nucleotide
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March 3-7
RNA / protein synthesis
Chapter 10: Read pages 190-196
Complete all worksheets
END OF 3rd QUARTER !!