January 19, 2011

Daily Questions:
Please get out the handout from yesterday- DNA Sequencing Lab Activity- and read through the introduction quietly to yourself.


Agenda:
1. Nonsense vs. missense
2. DNA sequencing lab
3. Handouts for lab conclusion & test review
4. Snow day considerations...

Homework:
-Ch 10 test on Monday, 24th
-Concept Maps due Monday, 24th
-Lab reports due Tues, 25th

Quote:
"Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more." ~George Bernard Shaw

January 18, 2011

Daily Questions:
Please DO NOT pass in your lab notebooks!  Please get the handout for the figure in 10.15, open your books, and REread the section quietly at your desks.

Agenda:
1. Translation breakdown
2. Central Dogma of Molecular Biology
3. DNA-RNA mutations worksheet
4. Pre-Lab - Sequence of DNA

Homework:
-Ch 10 test on Mon, Jan 24th (up to & including 10.16)
-Concept Maps due Mon, 24th
-Lab report due Tues, 25th

Quote:
"Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages." ~Dave Barry

January 14, 2011

Daily Questions:
You have until 11:20 to work on your lab report conclusion.  Goodluck! :O)  Please put your names on your index cards and put them in a neat pile on my desk.

Agenda:
1. C.E. submission
2. Index Card Trivia
3. DNA-RNA-AA worksheet
4. Concept mapping cont'd

Homework:
-Structure of DNA lab report due Tues, 18th
-Have digital concept map up to date by Tues, 18th

Quote:
"We build too many walls and not enough bridges." ~Isaac Newton

January 13, 2011

Daily Questions:
On a small piece of scrap paper, consider & list what conditions enzymes need in order to perform optimally (recall enzyme lab).  Were any of these conditions possible inhibitors during our lab activity Tuesday?

Agenda:
1. Emailed C.E.'s...
2. Conclusion data table for Properties of DNA, sources of error...
3. Cutting & pasting vocab into conclusion


Homework:
-Current event due today before midnight!
-Structure of DNA lab report due Tuesday, Jan 18th

Quote:
"Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes." ~Robert M. Hutchins

January 11, 2011

Daily Questions:
Please get out the lab directions & your lab notebooks.  On the handout, make a short list of the materials you and your partner will need to pick up to complete the experiments.  We will NOT be doing the optional part in the first experiment, with NaCl.  When is it important to wash your tools?  In your lab notebooks, make a title page, and then a subtitle for the purpose.  Our purpose: To determine the effects of heat and DNAse on the structure of DNA and how it relates to the Watson-Crick model.

Agenda:
1. Lab procedures overview
2. Performing lab experiments

Homework:
-Using provided index cards, create 2 questions from each section you were not an expert on, record those one 1 side of the card, then answer the questions on the other side.  QUALITY QUESTIONS ONLY!

Quote:
"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever." ~Chinese Proverb

January 10, 2011

Daily Questions:
Please get a small piece of paper from the front and reflect on the article you read over the weekend: "The Genome Turns Personal."  Quietly, and on your own, please write down 3 interesting things you read about, 2 questions you have, and 1 hope for this area of research for the future.

Agenda:
1. Group notes (modified) 10.5-10.8
2. Intro Properties of DNA lab


Homework:
-NONE!  :O)


Quote:
"Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak." ~Epictetus

January 7, 2011

Daily Questions:
Please pick up the handout at the front and reread section 10.5 as a review.

Agenda:
1. Transparency 10.5 diagram: Complementary & Antiparallel
2. Concept mapping DNA in pairs - handout diagram

Homework:
 -Read article "Genome Turns Personal" & answer questions for Mon, 10th

Quote:
"If you only do what you know you can do - you never do very much." ~Tom Krause

January 6, 2010

Daily Questions:  
Please take out your homework from yesterday and share your responses with a classmate.  I am NOT collecting these, but you are responsible for the information requested in the questions!

Agenda:
1. Group notes 10.1-10.5
2. Handout : Diagram of DNA
3. Concept mapping (small chunks)

Homework:
-Current event due Jan 13th
-Make Up Immuno test by Mon, Jan 10th


Quote:
"The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes." ~William Davis

January 5, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get out your notes from the movie yesterday & quietly read over these to yourself.  When finished, turn & find a partner to check details with. 

Agenda:
1. Continue watching "Cracking the Code"
2. Handout "Requirements for a DNA Model"


Homework:
-Requirements for a DNA model worksheet due Thurs, 6th

Quote:
"Happiness is the  meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end to human existence." ~Aristotle

January 4, 2010

Daily Questions:
Please get out a piece of lined paper to use during the movie.

Agenda:
1. Cracking the Code of Life movie

Homework:
-Ch 10 reading questions due Wed, 5th
-Current Event due Jan 13th
-Make up Immunology test by Monday, 10th

Quote:
"Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package." ~Unknown

January 3, 2011

Daily Questions:
Please get a piece of paper from up front and write down 1-2 new year's resolutions you would like to accomplish.

Agenda:
1. Seating change
2. Hand back work & go over it
3. Field Trip update
4. Start reading questions Ch 10

Homework:
-Reading questions for Ch 10 due Wed, 5th

Quote:
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow.  Learn as if you were to live forever." ~Mahatma Ghandi