//www.pointlomahigh.com/apps/classes/351619/assignments/ Class Name: Advanced Biology Per. 3 Instructor(s): Grace Baugh Location: 701 en-us SchoolSitePro //www.pointlomahigh.com/homeworkItem2222432 //www.pointlomahigh.com/apps/classes/351619/assignments/ Please review the attached study guide in preparation for the exam.

Two different study guides have been posted.
1) Study guide for all other chapter, not including the nervous system
2) Study guide for the nervous system
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1) Draw and label the Nerve cell - page 565
2) Draw and explain what happens during the knee-jerk reflex
3) Draw and explain how messages are sent from the sensory receptor to effector.
See page 564.

A overview of the nervous system will be explained on Friday and Monday which will be continued after the CST examinations.
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1) negative pressure breathing
2) vital capacity
3) hemoglobin
4) arterioles
5) venules
6) pulmonary circuit
7) systemic circuit
8) aorta
9)superior vena cava
10 inferior vena cava
11)diastole
12)systole
13) pacemaker
14) blood
15) platelets
16) plasma
17) RBC - Red blood cell
18) WBC - White blood cell
19) phagocytes
20) fibrinogen
21( Make sure to include those done in class such as atrium and ventricles0
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2) Draw and label the human heart.
2b) Explain how the blood flows through the heart.
2c) Why might the circulatory system be considered a transport system?
2d) Explain how the circulatory work with the respiratory system to maintain homeostais

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Study Guide for Evolution
1) Know Darwin theory of evolution, he was not familiar with the genetic and inheritance
2) Wallace developed a theory similar to that of Charles Darwin
3) Understand how fossils are formed
4) What did Darwin discover about species he found on the Galapagos Island in comparison to other species?
5) Scientists examine the anatomy, embryology and biogeography to examine fossil records
6) Understand the concept of evolution; species evolve base on their
7) Know that species are organisms that can reproduce and have fertile offspring
8) Know that evolution involves the changing of population over time. Individuals do not evolve, but population does.
9) Know the definition of microevolution
10) Know the definition of the bottleneck, and founder effect
11) Understand the concept of the heterozygous advantage – example the people sickle cell trait and their exposure to malaria.
12) Understand the concept of neutral variation example fingerprint
13) Know the meaning of the word moratorium
14) Understand that the diversity within a species increases it chance of survival
15) Know the ecological. Genealogical, and morphological species concept
16) Know the definition of taxonomy.
17) Understand the reproductive barrier – prezygotic and post zygotic
18) Understand the concept of hybrid inviability
19) Know the role of phermones in nature
20) Know the definition of allotrophic and allopatric speciation
21) What is adaptive radiation?
22) Define punctuated equilibrium
23) Understand radioactive dating
24) Understand the concept of continental drift and plate tectonics
25) Six mass extinctions have occurred over the history of the Earth
26) Know the definition of exaptation
27) Know the definition of phylogenic tree

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The date for this assignment has been changed to March 25th due to the field trip on March 24th.

This assignment will be graded as a test. The information can be presented in a booklet form, PowerPoint or in another another format. This is a partner project.

Drawings are needed to help explain the concept and no credit will be given for images downloaded from the internet. Explanations without the drawings will earn only half the points

Explain the following terms and use pictures to help with the definition (2 points for each):
1) Abiotic
2) biotic
3) trophic level (energy pyramid) ( Explain the different levels and how energy is transferred between each and what happens to the energy)
4) biomass
5) producers
6) consumers
7) autotrophs
8) hetertrophs
9) decomposers
10) consumable biomass
11) heat loss
12) food web (showing the interconnectivity between living organisms)
13) herbivore
14) carnivore
15) omnivore
16) parasitism
17) commensalism
18) mutualism
19) detrivores
20) symbiosis
21) coevolution

Part 2 - Use a diagram to represent each of the following cycles (8 points for each cycle):
1) Hydrologic cycle- explain the terms associated with the cycle. For example: define condensation
2) The carbon cycle ( Explain in a bit more details than the text, the process of cellular cellular respiration and photosynthesis)
3) The nitrogen cycle- Explain the role of the different bacteria to the cycle.

Total points: 66

]]> Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:50:22 PDT //www.pointlomahigh.com/homeworkItem2085003 //www.pointlomahigh.com/apps/classes/351619/assignments/ 1) What is the goal of therapeutic cloning?
2) What is gene expression?
3) Be able to define the following terms: operon, locus, transposons, homeotic gene
4) Know the function of the lac operon in E. coli, activators, regulatory protein, enhancers, silencers, RNA splicing, and homeoboxes
5) What is the function of Dolly, the sheep?
6) Explain what happens when a salamander generates a lost limb
7) Why can some plants be cloned from a single cell?
8) Know the possibilities of reproductive cloning
9) Understand that embryonic stem cells differentiate in all the different cell types
10) Explain what happens with gene packing and how it affects gene inactivation
11) What are exons and introns?
12) Know the process involved in the development of the fruit fly.
13) Understand the function of cell to cell signaling transduction pathway
14) What is an oncogene, proto-onco gene, and the effects of mutation?
15) Know why cells become cancerous
16) Know that carcinogens, mutagens are cancer causing agents and be able to identify a few of the known carcinogens

Chapter 12
1) Know the role of the Human Genome Project
2) Know the definition of genomics, bioinformatics, proteomic, transformation, transduction, and recombinant DNA
3) Explain the effects of the R Plasmid in bacteria
4) Know the function of the F factor
5) What are plasmids and how are they used?
6) Know the function of the restriction enzymes and DNA / RNA ligases
7) Know the function of the “sticky ends”in DNA recombination
8) Understand gene cloning achieved and what is “shotgun” cloning?
9) Understand how retoviruses work
10) Understand one of the advantage of using reverse transcriptase is create DNA without the introns
11) What is the purpose of gel electrophoresis and PCR?
12) What percentage of the DNA molecule is non-coding?
13) Know the cause of Huntington’s Disease
14) What is transposons?
15) Understand the role of vaccines
16) Know the definition of transgenic species
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1) Know the reason viruses are not considered to be alive and the part of the virus that is transferred to the host
2) Know that bacteriaphage is the virus that infects bacteria
3) Know the differences between DNA and RNA molecules
4) Know the definition of transcription, translation, and translocation
5) Know that the amino acid sequence is read by a sequence of three amino acid sequence
6) Know the meaning of the word redundant
7) Know that the RNA polymerase and DNA polymerase are responsible for the transcription of mRNA and DNA respectively
8) Know the purpose of the promoter and terminator region of the DNA molecule
9) Know that transcription and translation occur in the cytoplasm of prokaryotic cells
10) Know the function of the RNAs, mRNA, tRNA,and rRNA
11) Know the definition of mutagens and of mutation
12) Know the difference between the lytic and lysogenic cycles
13) Know that the virus DNA that enters the bacterium is called a provirus
14) Know why a HIV (AIDS) virus are considered retrovirus
15) Know the enzyme used by HIV to transcribe DNA
16) Know the effects of DNA on the human body. (Which cells are damaged)
17) The incorporation of viral DNA in the host cell is known as prophage
18) Know how to read the genetic code chart
19) Know the complementary base pairing rules for DNA to copy itself and the base pairing complementary rule for copying RNA from the DNA
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2) 194- 201.
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2) 186 - 187
]]> Tue, 01 Feb 2011 02:32:54 PST //www.pointlomahigh.com/homeworkItem1992526 //www.pointlomahigh.com/apps/classes/351619/assignments/ Know the definition of hypothesis
2) know the definition of control experiment
3) know the function of a controlled experiment
4) know the characteristics of a plant cell
5) know the six criteria for life
Chapter 2
Know the parts of the nucleus of an atom
2) know the atomic number of an atom
3) know the fundamental differences between ionic and covalent bonds
4) understand that water molecules stick together because of the attraction between hydrogen atoms of one water molecule to the oxygen atom of another
5) know the definition of solute, solvent, and solution
6) know how to read the pH scale
Chapter 3
1) Know that monomers are the building blocks of polymers and know the monomers of the various polymers; proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and nucleic acids
2) Know that macromolecules are formed as a result of dehydration synthesis
3) Know the characteristics of enzymes
4) Know that proteins differ from each other because of the sequence and the amounts of the amino acid monomers
5) Know that the monomers of starch are glucose molecules
6) Know that amino acids are bonded together by peptide bonds
7) What how enzymes made of protein can become denatured
8) Know that nucleotides contain a phosphate group, nitrogenous bases, a sugar group and are linked together to form nucleic acids such as DNA and RNA
9) Know the differences between DNA and RNA
10) Know that the genetic material of organisms is encoded in the DNA
Chapter 4
1) know the difference between a prokaryotic and a eukaryotic cell
2) know the function of the following organelles”
a) smooth endoplasmic reticulum
b) the golgi apparatus
c) lysosomes
d) central vacuole
e) chloroplast
f) mitochondria
g) perioxiomes
h) ribosome
i) plasma mambrane
Chapter 5
1) know the differences between chemical, kinetic, and potential energy
2) )know the difference between exogonic and endergonic reactions
3) Know the characteristics of enzymes. (for example -catalyzing reaction, active site)
4) Understand how competitive inhibitors work
5) Know the definition of permeable, selectively permeable and impermeable
6) Know the definition of diffusion and osmosis
7) Know what happens when cells are placed in isotonic, hypotonic, or hypertonic solution
Chapter 6
1) know the definition of aerobic and anaerobic respiration
2) know the products of cellular respiration
3) know the equation that is used to represent cellular respiration
4) know the order of the stages of cellular respiration
chapter 7
1) know the equation used to represent photosynthesis
2) know the definition of autotrophs
3) know the structure of the chloroplast
4) how do photosystem I and II differ
5) what is a packet of energy called
6) how do photosynthetic organisms obtain the carbon
chapter 8and 9 remember the information studied for chapters 8 and 9.(only a few questions will be taken from these two chapters)
1) Know that amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling allow for karyotyping and biochemical testing
2) Know that the sex of ants and bees are determined by the chromosome number
Chapter 10
1) know that the DNA follows base pairing rule( C with G) and (T with A)
2) know the other properties of the DNA given in class

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3) How were they rewarded for their contribution?
4) How did Rosalind Franklin contribute to their discovery?
5) What did Chargaff's rule?
6) Explain the contributions made by Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase to science
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Study Guide for genetic test:

1) Know the differences between sexual and asexual reproduction
2) Understand that all cells undergo cellular division for the creation of new cells
3) Know the differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes
4) Know the stages of mitosis and meiosis
a) know the main events of the differences phases
b) know the subdivisions of interphase
c) know what types of cells are produced at the end of both processes
d) know the major differences between cell division in plants and animal cell
5) Know how cell growth is monitored in species
6) Which cells in the body are in a permanent state on non-division?
7) Know that cancer cells develop from uncontrolled growth
8) Know the difference between a benign tumor and cancer tumor
9) Know the definition of synapsis, monohybrid cross, crossing over monoecious, testcross and polygenic traits
10) Know what happens when there are one more or one less sex chromosome
11) Remember the definition of the words studied for the vocabulary test given on 01/07/11


]]> Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:01:00 PST //www.pointlomahigh.com/homeworkItem1969600 //www.pointlomahigh.com/apps/classes/351619/assignments/ These notes will be turned in with the study guide 9 on Wednesday.

Read pages 166 - 167
pages 169 - 170
pages 171 - 179
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