AP Biology Quarter 3: Weeks 28-29
March 19-30, 2012
DATE
IN CLASS
Monday
(2,3; 95 min.)
3/19/12
AP Lab 9: Transpiration
Wednesday
(2,3; 80 min.)
3/21/12
Plant Regulation
Friday
(2,3; 95 min.)
3/23/12
Cellular Respiration and Fermentation
Monday 3/26/12
9:00-10:25
-ORTuesday 3/27/12
10:40-12:05
Cellular Respiration and Fermentation
Wednesday
3/28/12
9:00-10:25
AP Lab 5: Cell Respiration
Wednesday
(2; 2:20-3:35)
3/28/12
Practice Multiple Choice: Cell Respiration
Work Day: Photosynthesis
Thursday
(3; 1:00-2:15)
3/29/12
C. Gay 3/18/12
HOMEWORK
1. AP Lab 9 Post Lab
DUE: W 3/21
2. Ch 33 Study Guide
DUE: W 3/21
3. Deadline Qtr 3
DUE: 2pm F 3/23
* What environmental factors affect the rate of
transpiration?
1. Ch 6 Study Guide
DUE: F 3/23
2. Deadline Qtr 3
DUE: 2pm F 3/23
* How is the growth and development of plants
regulated? How is this regulation similar
to/different than animal endocrine systems?
1. CR Clarifying Questions
DUE: M-T 3/26-27
* How do cells utilize chemical energy? How is cell 2. AP Lab 5 Prelab
respiration connected to organismal
DUE: W 3/28
respiration?
* How do cells utilize chemical energy? How is cell
respiration connected to organismal
respiration?
* How does temperature affect the rate of cellular
respiration?
1. AP Lab 5 Prelab
DUE: W 3/28
1. AP Lab 5 Postlab
DUE: M 4/2
1. Ch 7 Study Guide
DUE: M 4/2
* How do plants create their own food? How are
Psn and CR compliments and opposites of each
other?
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Plant Evolution and Diversity
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Characteristics of plants
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Plant evolution and Charophyceans
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Evolutionary trends in plants: origins of plants, vascularization, seeds, flowering
Alternation of Generations and Plant Life Cycles
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Plant life cycles
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Mosses: dominant gametophyte
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Ferns: dominant sporophyte
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Seedless plants and fossil fuels
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Conifers and gametophyte cones
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Angiosperms and gametophyte flowers
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Fruit and seed dispersal
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Agriculture and angiosperms, animals and angiosperm evolution, plant diversity
Fungi
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Movement of plants and fungi onto land
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Fungi nutrition
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Fungi lifecycle: diploid, haploid, dikaryotic
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Lichens
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Parasitic fungi
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Ecological and human importance of fungi
Plant Structure and Function
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Monocots vs. dicots
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Plant structure and adaptations
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Plant tissues: parenchyma, collenchyma, sclerenchyma, water conducting cells, food conducting cells
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Tissue systems: epidermis, ground tissue, vascular tissue
Plant Growth
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Intermediate vs. determinant growth, primary vs. secondary growth
Plant Reproduction
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Flower structure and flowering plant lifecycle
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Development of pollen and fertilization
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Development of ovules, seeds, and ovaries, seed germination
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Asexual reproduction
Uptake and Transport of Plant Nutrients
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Uptake of water and nutrients and water by roots: Casparian strip
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Transpiration-cohesion-tension mechanism
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Guard cells and transpiration
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Pressure-flow mechanism
Plant Nutrients and the Soil
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Plant nutrients and soil structure
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Fungi and plant symbioses, adaptations for obtaining nutrients, plants and bacteria
Plant Nutrients and Agriculture
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Agricultural research and GMO
Plant Hormones
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Darwin’s experiments on phototropism
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Plant hormones: auxin, cytokinins, gibberellins, abscisic acid, ethylene
Growth Responses and Biological Rhythms in Plants
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Tropisms: phototropism, gravitropism, thigmotropism
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Circadian rhythms and biological clocks (nastic movements)
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Photoperiod: long day vs. short day plants, phytochrome
Plant Defenses
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Types of defenses: herbivores, disease
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Adaptations to plant defensive chemicals
How cells make ATP
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substrate level phosphorylation
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chemiosmotic synthesis of ATP
Redox reactions in metabolism
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respiration as a redox reaction
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NAD+ and the oxidation of glucose
Aerobic and anerobic catabolism
Glycolysis
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fermentation
Citric Acid Cycle
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formation of Acetyl CoA
Electron Transport Chain and oxidative phosphorylation
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electron transport
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generation of the proton gradient
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proton-motive force and ATP synthesis
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ATP ledger for respiration
Catabolism of other molecules
Biosynthesis
Control of respiration
C. Gay 3/18/12
Steamboat Springs High School AP Biology