1. 11/17/14
Discussion Questions
Please answer the following using Chapter 6, your notes
and/or electronic device
1. What are the most common elements found in living things?
2. What do you think are the major biomolecules found in
living things that are made from those elements?

2. Reminders
Rough Draft of your Abstract is due on 12/1/14 (printed and ready to be checked at the BEGINNING of class). Plan ahead.
Root Quiz on Tuesday,
Biochemistry Exam on Wed, Chapter 6
Science Fair is on Wed 12/10/14. Everything will be due in class on Monday 12/8/14. Do you have a family member who is knowledgeable in science and might be interested in judging? If so…let me know
5 pts. EC for turning your project in anytime between and The entire project!
Go to room 1135 Tues or Thurs for Science Peer Tutoring

3. QUIZ Clear your desks of everything Do NOT write on the quiz please
QUIZ
Clear your desks of everything
Do NOT write on the quiz please
Use CAPITAL letters please
Keep your answers covered
If you need to make up a quiz due to an absence… come see me Tues or Thurs during PLC
Flip it over when you are finished and hang on to it.

4. 9 week exam question 25

5. 9 week exam question 26

6. Today’s Objective:
Objective: Introduction to biochemistry and organic compounds

7. Dehydration Synthesis Demonstration

8. Quick Review & Some New Information
Monomers are small single subunits or building blocks that form polymers.
Examples of monomers and polymers include:
1. amino acids are the monomers for proteins/polypeptides
2. nucleotides are the monomers for nucleic acids (RNA/DNA)
Monomers are joined together to form polymers by a chemical reaction called Dehydration Synthesis or also known as a Condensation Reaction.
Polymers are broken down into their monomers (digestion)
by a reaction called Hydrolysis
*Water is the important link in both reactions!!! 8

9. Biochemistry Introduction ppt Day 1
So far this year we’ve learned about:
Ecosystems, Communities, Populations, and Individual Species/Organisms
We’ve learned all about the cells (Prokaryote vs. Eukaryote and Eukaryotic Plant Cells vs. Eukaryotic Animal Cells),.
The question now is……what makes up the cell????? 9

11. Exit Ticket 1. Please compare and contrast hydrolysis and
dehydration synthesis.
2. Carbohydrates are one of the four biologic
macromolecules(biomolecules). They are a polymer.
What monomer are they made from?

12. Oral Conclusion
Please describe the base pairing rules of DNA and of RNA
Describe the structure of DNA
3. How are RNA and DNA different?
4. Describe DNA Replication.
5. Describe Transcription
6. Describe Translation
7. Describe a mutation
8. Describe a Frame Shift Mutation

13. Oral Conclusion Please give an example of a limiting factor
Describe one way humans are impacting the nitrogen cycle
Describe one way humans are impacting the carbon cycle
How are microorganisms such as bacteria beneficial to an ecosystem? Organism?
Give an example of a producer. A consumer
Describe biological magnification.
Give an example of an abiotic factor. A biotic factor.
Describe an invasive species and give an example.
Why does only 10% of the energy move from trophic level to trophic level?
How is primary succession different from secondary succession?
Compare and contrast natural and artificial selection.
Give an example of evolution.
Describe two – evidence of evolution.
Compare and contrast natural and artificial selection
Compare and contrast eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells
How are plant and animal cells different?