Welcome to AP Biology!

Please take out your summer work and pick up calendars.

Agenda:1. Introductions2. Course Info Sheet3. Wikispace4. Procedures5. Determining Rules

Objective: set the tone of the class for the year

HW: Study for Unit 1 TestRead "Test Scores"

Summer Work:

I am collecting the objectives for a completion grade today. They will be returned to you tomorrow so you can study with it. Then I will collect them again the day of the test to grade it thoroughly.

I am collecting the Cook assignment today for a thorough grade.

About Mrs. Nash

Victor High SchoolSyracuse UniversityUniversity of Rochester

Mom to Kaely who will be 2 on 9.11Wife to Dan (married on 7.7.07 in Vegas!)Teacher

Taught at Mercy since Feb '07

Love pizza, boy bands (*NSYNC and BSB), Twilight, SYTYCD

Course Info Sheets:

Go over important points now.

Read these over again tonight with a parent/guardian.

No Final Exam. We will do a final project instead.

Welcome!

Be ready to go when the bell rings.

Agenda:1. Wikispace2. Ch. 1 - 33. Functional Group Chart4. Practice Biochem Test

Objective: get ready for test Monday

HW: Study for Unit 1 Test on MondayRead "Test Scores"

Forget Facebook, Tata Twitter...

Our Wikispace... It will be your best friend this year.

Procedures:

1. Enter the room and look at the Smart Board

2. Follow the directions on the Smart Board and write any homework in your agenda

3. Be ready to go when the bell rings

4. "Good Morning/Afternoon Ladies"... followed by our inspirational message.

5. Go over agenda, objective(s) and homework

6. Start class :)

7. Exit Tickets - maybe

Things in the room: you may use anything in the room as long as it is not on the front lab table. Never touch the Smart Board or my laptop unless I tell you to.

Birthday Calendar*Lab NotebooksSuppliesLab StationsPlantsSupply Table

Homework: Always due when class starts! If not, it is late! It always goes in the bin with your class number on it.

Absent?: Right now, find a homework/note buddy to be responsible for your work when you are absent. If you know you'll be out, see me first. See me as soon as you get back in school too.

Lost papers: I always bring a cart with past handouts. If can't find something, ask me BEFORE class starts

Unifying Themes

1. The cell

2. Heritable Information

3. Hierarchical order - systems

4. Regulation

5. Interaction with environment

6. Energy and life

7. Unity and diversity

8. Evolution

9. Structure and Function

10. Scientific Inquiry

11. Science, technology and society

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts"

Energy conversion

Materials cycling

Prokaryotic Eukaryotic

Structure & Function of DNA

Reductionism

Systems Biology

Goal: model the dynamic behavior of whole biological systems1. list all parts2. how parts interact3. pool data

·High throughput technology·Bioinformatics·Interdisciplinary research teams

Positive Feedback

Negative Feedback

Bacteria Archae Eukarya

Plantae Fungi Animalia

"Life's dual nature of unity and diversity"

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection

Observations:1. Individual variation2. Overproduction and competition

Inferences:1. Unequal reproductive success2. Evolutionary adaptation

Discovery science - describing natural structures and processes through careful observation and analysis of data

Hypothesis - based science - explanations to observations made in discovery science and makes predictions

Quantitative - quantities, measurements

Qualitative - recorded descriptionsex: Jane Goodall & chimps

Inductive - deriving generalizations based on a large number of specific observations

- reasoning from a set of specific observations to reach a general conclusion

Deductive - a general conclusion down to the specific results we should expect if the premises are true

Hypotheses:

Controlled Experiment:

1. 1 Independent variable2. A control3. Controlling the experiment

Goal: test only one variable

Everyday theory: not tested, just a guess

Scientific theory: tested and well supported by researchnot a hypothesisgeneral enough to generate new

hypothesescan be rejected or modified

Social and cultural influences:

Science and Technology: