Biology for Life

  Skyline High School IB Biology

 
 
 

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Course Information
Syllabus Statements
Internal Assessment
Current Unit IB Bio I
Current Unit IB Bio II
Class Calendar IB Bio I
Class Calendar IB Bio II
Notebook Check IB Bio I
Notebook Check IB Bio II

  
 
 

 

September

DATE

PROMPT

10 Sep 09

What is the minimum sample size for IB lab?  What are "levels" of a MV?

 

11 Sep 09

A biologist studied algae samples growing under three levels of a MV compared to a control group.  Assuming a sample size of 5 and a total of two replicates, how many algae samples were needed?

 

15 Sep 09

What does the mean tell you about a data set?  The median? The range?

 

16 Sep 09

What is measurement uncertainty?

 

17 Sep 09

What is the measurement and uncertainty of this liquid?

 

18 Sep 09

What does a small standard deviation say about a set of data? 

 

21 Sep 09

What can be concluded by reading this graph (species richness vs. history)?

 

24 Sep 09

What data analysis will you need to complete for your bean lab data?

 
25 Sep 09 List four different types of graphs (i.e. bar graph...)

28 Sep 09

For each graph type, describe the type of data that it can depict:

Pie

Bar

Line

 

29 Sep 09

Explain what this graph shows:

 

October

DATE

PROMPT

01 Oct 09

Complete these sentences:

1.The ________ is the smallest unit of life.

2.All living things are made of _________.

3.All _______ come from other ________.

 

06 Oct 09

Tape in the diagram of the prokaryotic cell shapes and label each example with the correct name based on its shape.

 

07 Oct 09

Draw examples of:

§         Diplococcus

§         Staphylococcus

§         Streptobacillus

§         Spirllum

 

08 Oct 09

List three differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells

 

19 Oct 09

List 10 organisms with eukaryotic cells.

 

21 Oct 09

From a diagram or photograph of a cell, how can you tell if the cell is from a plant or an animal?

 

22 Oct 09

What does the preface “endo” mean?  What does the preface “exo” mean?

 

23 Oct 09

List at least 4 differences between saturated and unsaturated fatty acids tails

 

26 Oct 09

As a cell increases in size, its amount of cytoplasm (volume) __________ and its amount of cell membrane (surface area) ______________.  However the amount of surface area compared to the amount of volume does not __________________.

 

November

DATE

PROMPT

02 Nov 09

NEW QUARTER

Describe the structure of the atom.

 

05 Nov 09

What does it mean to say a molecule is polar?  What causes water to be polar?

 

06 Nov 09

Why is water polar?

 

09 Nov 09

What is the monomer of a polysaccharide?  In what type of chemical reaction are monomers joined together to form a polysaccharide.

 

10 Nov 09

Draw the condensation reaction that creates maltose.

 

12 Nov 09

What the heck is a lipid?

 

13 Nov 09

 

Draw a fatty acid with four carbons and a glycerol.  Then, show how they would combine through a condensation reaction

 

17 Nov 09

 

Why should we care about learning the structure and function of DNA?

 

18 Nov 09

Draw a DNA nucleotide.

Show the locations of carbons 1 and 3 of the deoxyribose.

 

30 Nov 09

What does it mean to "extract" DNA?

December

DATE

PROMPT

02 Dec 09

According to the IB Organization, what is the minimum number of levels of the MV you should include in a lab?  What is the minimum numbers of trials for each level of the MV? 

 

08 Dec 09

How could your DNA extraction lab data be processed?  Presented?

 

09 Dec 09

What must be done to DNA before it can be run through an electrophoresis gel?

 

10 Dec 09

What is a restriction enzyme?  Where are they naturally found?  What do they do?

 

14 Dec 09

What cause different bands of DNA on an electrophoresis gel?  What makes the DNA in those bands different from each other?

 

16 Dec 09

If I want to measure 53 uL of a liquid, which of the following pipettes should I use?

A.      0.5-10

B.      10-100

C.      2-20

D.      100-1000

 

January

DATE

PROMPT

06 Jan 10

What are four reasons a cell might go through mitosis?

 

07 Jan 10

Describe what the cell asks itself at the G1 checkpoints in the cell cycle

 

11 Jan 10

Compare the structure and function of polar and kinetochore microtubules.

 

13 Jan 10

Why do you think an onion root tip is often used for viewing cells in mitosis?

 

14 Jan 10

What are four of the rules for lab drawing?

 

15 Jan 10

How can you tell the difference between a cell in interphase and a cell in prophase when viewing cells under the microscope.

 

26 Jan 10

NEW QUARTER

Why must a cell replicate its DNA?

When in the cell cycle does DNA replication take place?

 

27 Jan 10

What limitation does DNA polymerase III have that causes replication to be different on the leading and lagging strands? 

 

28 Jan 10

List the enzymes involved in DNA replication

 

February

DATE

PROMPT

02 Feb 10

How to cancer cells behave at the cell cycle checkpoints?

 

03 Feb 10

List 5 sources of mutations that might cause a cell to become cancerous.

 

04 Feb 10

In what way is an onco-gene like a "sticky" accelerator peddle in a Toyota car/truck? 

 

05 Feb 10

What are the four major type of biological macromolecule?  Why might we study DNA before learning about proteins?

 

08 Feb 10

 

What is a gene?

09 Feb 10

List two roles of RNA polymerase during transcription.

 

10 Feb 10

During transcription, the RNA is made in a ____ to ____ direction.

During transcription, the DNA template strand is read in a _____ to _____ direction.

 

11 Feb 10

Why does the cell make RNA from DNA?  What is the second step of protein synthesis (after transcription…)?

 

12 Feb 10

In what type of cells does RNA processing happen?  Why does it happen?

 

22 Feb 10

List three events that happen during RNA processing.

 

23 Feb 10

 

How does this image of a hand held language converter relate to our class?  To what cellular structure is the device analogous?

24 Feb 10

List the function of each of the following during translation:

       Ribosome

       mRNA

       tRNA

       Amino acid

 

25 Feb 10

What is missing from this diagram?

26 Feb 10

What is the function of amino-acyl tRNA synthase?

 

March

DATE

PROMPT

01 Mar 10

What is the monomer of a protein?

 

02 Mar 10

Draw a generalized amino acid and label the amine group, the carboxyl group and the alpha carbon.

 

03 Mar 10

Draw a generalized dipeptide.  Label the amino terminus, the carboxyl terminus and the peptide bond. 

 

04 Mar 10

List the types of bonding found at each level of protein structure.

 

08 Mar 10

Describe what is happening in this diagram:

09 Mar 10

What kind of bond will a positively and negatively charged amino acid form when they attract each other as a protein folds?

 

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"When we tug at a simple thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world."  John Muir