AP Biology at Wheaton HS: 2010

Friday, December 10, 2010

Protein Synthesis

Protein Synthesis by Yukna, Eboni, Heidi
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Mutations
Mutations

by Anna S., Halima, Noe, Jitu
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Protein Synthesis by Reina G, Pool, Delmis, & Jeanne Marie
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Part 4
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Monday, December 6, 2010

DNA synthesis summaries

DNA Replication
DNA Replication
Nucleotide excision repair
Neucleotide excision repair
by Halima, Samrawit, Yukna, & Anna

Monday, June 7, 2010

Welcome to AP Biology 2010-2011

Mrs. Sobieszczyk will be your teacher during the upcoming year.
Please feel welcome to contact her at anytime
Catherine_A_Sobieszczyk@mcpsmd.org

Use your summer wisely: How should you get ready for next year?
1. Use the chapter review packets and take notes using outline format.
e-mail them as an attachment to Mrs. Sobieszczyk if you want feedback.
Our first Chapter 6 - Tour of the cell, will be completed in the first several days of school; followed by Chapter 8 Membrane Structure and Function and Chapter 5 structure and function of Macromolecules.
2. Spend time exploring AP central:
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/sub_bio.html
3. Spend time exploring this blog (links on right)

Campbell Texts
A copy stays at home, unless you don’t continue w/ AP Biology
The same text will be available during class
So you do NOT have to carry this huge text back and forth
The text chapters correspond to the review packets (homework grade)
Chapters 7 (cells),8 (membranes),& 5 (macromolecules) are available to you to work ahead this summer.
The Chapter on the cell will be due the 2nd day back from school.
We will cover about 1 chapter each week.
Typically notes are due BEFORE we start a chapter.
Notes should be written FIRST using the review packet.
Details can be added using the text
The review packets are due on Mondays,
so that you can utilize Saturday school for help
MC sections are completed on mini scantrons. (formative grade)

Monday, May 10, 2010

After the AP Biology Exam....

You will be reading:
Mountains Beyond Mountains By Tracy Kidder

As you read (both during and outside of class), you will be asked to do a Double Entry Journal (DEJ). The next paragraph is a description of this process.

Purpose for Reading: As you read, pull out quotes that connect to biological content that you have encountered in your Academy courses or AP Biology (text-text). Pull out quotes that paint a picture of the political and socioeconomic situation in Haiti (text-world). Finally, pull out quotes that impact you (text-self). You should pick out three quotes per chapter; one text-text, one text-world, and one text-self. Write a four-five sentence “connection” for each quote.

Partners In Health is a non-profit organization founded by Paul Farmer and others. See the "History" link for a timeline of events.
In 1987 - the following was directly copied from the above website.
"Partners In Health (PIH) is founded in Boston by Farmer, Thomas J. White, and Todd McCormack to support activities in Cange. They are joined in this effort by Dahl and Jim Yong Kim, also a medical student at Harvard. These activities by now include schools, clinics, a training program for health outreach workers, a mobile unit that screens residents of area villages for preventable diseases, and an ongoing study of sickness and health among the peasants of rural Haiti that will form the basis of Farmer's 1992 book, AIDS and Accusation."

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Biotechnology

A quick power point to show background and purpose of the bacterial transformation
http://outreach.mcb.harvard.edu/teachers/Summer08/AmyDickson/Lab6Intro.ppt

Bacterial Transformation Lab
http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/labbench/lab6/concepts1.html

DNA Gel Electrophoresis