EXAMS 3 hour exams; 1 final (3 hours)
You can drop the lowest grade of the 3 hour exams, and then count the final as 50%;
or if your final exam turns out to be your lowest grade, then final counts 40%

1) Wed. Aug. 31	Kinds of living things: bacteria, archaea, plants, algae, fungi, animals:	Chapter 1,web page
2) Fri. Sept. 2	Biological Chemistry	Read Chapter 2 in the textbook, web page
3) Mon. Sept. 5	Proteins, and other polymers	Read Chapter 3 in the textbook,web page
4) Wed. Sept. 7	Nucleic acids	Chapter sections 3.10 to 3.20,web page
5) Fri. Sept. 9	Sizes of cells and molecules; different kinds of microscopes	Chapter sections 4.1-4.3, web page
6) Mon. Sept. 12	Membranes, and membrane structure and function	Chapter sections 4.5-4.19,web page
7) Wed. Sept.14	Procaryotes, eucaryotes, and organelles	Chapter 4, web page
8) Fri. Sept. 16	Energy, entropy, Brownian movement, osmotic pressure, membrane voltages	Chapter 5
9) Mon. Sept. 19	FIRST TEST
10) Wed. Sept. 21	Energy coupling: ATP, NAD, FAD	Chapter 6,web page
11) Fri. Sept. 23	"Chemiosmosis"; Mitochondria, and why they evolved from symbiotic bacteria	Chapter 6, web page
12) Mon. Sept. 26	Photosynthesis (Chloroplasts also evolved from symbiotic procaryotes!)	Chapter 7, web page
13) Wed. Sept. 28	Mitosis and the cell cycle	Chapter 8, web page
14) Fri. Sept. 30	Meiosis	Chapter 8, web page
	Exam on Nov. 18th will cover material beginning here
15) Mon. Oct. 3	Genes and Mendel	Chapter 9, web page
16) Wed. Oct . 5	Genes are made of DNA	Chapter 10, web page
17) Fri. Oct. 7	How DNA base sequences code for protein amino acid sequences	Chapter 10, web page
18) Mon. Oct. 10	DNA synthesis, RNA transcription and translation (=protein synthesis)	web page
Wed. Oct . 12	University Day
19) Fri. Oct. 14	DNA technology	Chapters 11 and 12; also section 32.16
20) Mon. Oct. 17	SECOND TEST
21) Wed Oct 19	Scientific methods; "Model organisms" ; Genetic Screens, Bioassays, Journals	web page
	Fall Break
22) Mon Oct. 24	Evidence for Darwinian evolution	Chapter 13, web page
23) Wed. Oct. 26	More about evolution	Chapter 13, web page
24) Fri Oct. 28	Evolutionary history	Chapters 15 and 16, web page
25) Mon. Oct 31	Viruses	Sections 10.17-10.22, web page
26) Wed. Nov 2	Protists	Chapter 17, web page
27) Fri. Nov. 4	Plants	Chapter 17, web page
28) Mon. Nov. 7	Fungi	Chapter 17, , web page
29) Wed. Nov. 9	Multicellular animals	Chapters 18 and 19, web page
	This ends the material to be covered in the exam on Nov. 18th
30) Fri. Nov. 11	The mechanism of nerve impulses	Chapter 28, web page
31) Mon. Nov. 14	Nerve synapses and how nerve gas works	Chapter 28, web page
32) Wed. Nov. 16	Sensory nerves; and eyes and ears	Chapter 29, web page
33) Fri. Nov. 18	THIRD TEST
34) Mon. Nov. 21	Contrast flies & humans: skeleton, breathing, vision, sex determination	Chapter 30
35) Wed. Nov. 23	Hormones and pheromones	Chapter 26, web page
36) Mon. Nov 28	Embryonic development and other forms of reproduction	Chapter 27, web page
37) Wed. Nov 30	How plant development differs from animal embryology	Chapters 31 & 33
38) Fri. Dec. 2	The immune system; allergies, vaccines. etc.	Chap.24 (which has many mistakes), web page
39) Mon. Dec. 5	Population ecology	Chapters 34, 35 & 36, web page
40) Wed. Dec 7	Animal behavior and sociobiology	Chapter 37, web page
41) Fri. Dec. 9	Ecosystems and conservation	Chapter 38, web page

 

FINAL EXAM Friday, Dec.16 at 8:00 AM (Eight O'Clock in the Morning!)

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