1/6/16 Discussion Questions 1. Using your textbook, journal or smart phone explain what the characteristics of life are. 2. REVIEW: Please describe prokaryotes and give an example 3. REVIEW: Using your textbook, or journal explain why scientists consider viruses as nonliving.

Reminders Review your discussion questions and ppt notes ~5 min each night for the daily quizzes.

This and That Be sure to check our class website frequently! Especially if you’ve been absent or will be absent. Get any handouts you missed or lost from the website.

Today’s Objective: Objective: Characteristics of Life: List and Explain all of the characteristics required to be considered living. Describe the process of aerobic and anaerobic cellular respiration in the formation of cellular energy (ATP)

Characteristics of Living Things & Cellular Respiration PPT

Charact. Of Life Cell Resp. Using your power point notes complete: Cellular Respiration handout (chpt 9 of the text can also help). Tomorrow’s quiz is mostly cellular respiration Characteristics of Living Things handout COMPLETE these and put them in your journal

1/6/16 AP BIO Discussion Questions 1.Please compare and contrast DNA and RNA 2.Please describe the process of transcription.

Reminders Chapter 7, skip section 4, and chapter 9 Exam, After the break! Jan 8th

College Board Objectives and Agenda for the Day College Board: Cell cycle, Cell Cycle Controls, DNA Replication Today's Agenda- DNA Activity- 1, 2 AND 3 In this unit we will: Describe and identify the stages of the cell cycle. Learn about cell cycle controls and cancer. Study DNA replication. Exam: Chapter 7, skip section 4, and chapter 9 Exam,

Root Quiz First and Last Name on a Sheet of Paper Period = 4 Date = 11/7/14 Number 1-20 straight down your paper You will just write the answer

Root Quiz Just write the answer: 1.IN 11. Infra 2.Auto12. Gest 3.Carni13. Gyn 4.Hepato14. Epi 5.Inter15. Intra 6.Haplo16. Lipo 7.Iso17. Arthro 8.Cervical18. Ichthyo 9.Hemo19. Latero 10.Kinesis 20. Lysis

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Monitor your Grades!!! Make sure you are monitoring your grades via HAC/SAC

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My Goals for YOU Develop a love and curiosity for biology because biology is amazing!! Pass the AP Biology College Board Exam with a 4 or 5 (saves you time and $$$$) Have fun this year while being challenged at the college level!

Why I chose to teach I believe: Life should be filled with love, joy, laughter, learning and fun! One way to have these things is to get a good education and great job. The reason we are here is to help one another have these things It is important to “pay it forward” and make a difference in someone else’s life otherwise, why are we here?!?

The New AP Biology Course and AP Biology Exam Teacher is facilitator. Very few Power Point notes from the teacher Learning is Inquiry Based Labs are Inquiry Based Students are given objectives to meet and master.

AP Biology Exam – Usually 2nd Monday in May The tests will be graded under the direction of the College Board, with scores ranging from 1 to 5. Colleges generally grant credit for scores of 3, 4, or 5, but it is up to the discretion of the participating colleges. Any student wishing to receive college credit for this course MUST check with his or her prospective college NOW to determine what will be accepted for credit.

Exam Information The AP Biology Exam consists of two sections: multiple choice and free response. The exam is 3 hours long and includes both a 90-minute multiple choice section and a 90-minute free-response section that begins with a mandatory 10-minute reading period. The multiple-choice section accounts for half of the student’s exam grade, and the free-response section accounts for the other half.

Section I, Part A, consists of 63 multiple-choice questions Part B includes 6 grid-in questions that require the integration of science and mathematical skills. In Section II, students should use the mandatory reading period to read and review the questions and begin planning their responses. This section contains two types of free-response questions (short and long), and the student will have a total of 80 minutes to complete all of the questions. There will be 2 long Free Response and 6 short free response

Are you studying for the AP Exam??? Doing well can save you time and lots of money!!! STUDY NOW…read through your Cliff Notes book a few minutes every night. Review stuff we’ve already covered with your Cliff Notes book.

Agenda DNA Activity Structure and Replication Parts 1, 2 and 3

Eventual Agenda AP Lab 3- Mitosis pgs only DNA take home lab – Exer 1-2 only (pgs 84-85, 88 and the sheet we added for Exercise 1)

**use complete sentences please **check the floor around your area and throw away any trash **please put textbooks back under your desks planet earth water 1.1. Please describe Interphase and its substages 2.2. Please describe the “M” phase and its substages.

**use complete sentences please **check the floor around your area and throw away any trash **please put textbooks back under your desks planet earth water 1.1. Please describe Interphase and its substages 2.2. Please describe the “M” phase and its substages.