McCarter Biology

Biology IS Life

Week of 4/27/20:

E-Learning Week #6

Mon. 4/27: Maroon Day- no Biology class. Make sure you have finished the Antibiotic Resistance video from EdPuzzle before tomorrow.

Tues. 4/28: Gold Day – no class meeting today! We will meet on Friday.

For today, complete the Natural Selection Simulation at Phet worksheet.  We are going to be breeding bunnies! Send me photos of the completed worksheet or write the answers in your BILL and send me a photo of that.  The link to the simulation is at the top of the page. You may not be able to access it unless you have JAVA on your computer. I think anyone with a Mac will probably not get it to work. If you have trouble and can’t get it to work, I videoed the simulation and put it onto EdPuzzle. It takes a little bit more time to watch the video, but it will work.  You only need to watch the video if you can’t get the simulation to work.  Due before our next class on Friday.  We will have an “entrance ticket”/quiz about Population Genetics (antibiotic resistance and how natural selection effects populations) on Friday.

Wed. 4/29: work and rest day. Try to give your eyes and back a break from the computer!

Thurs 4/30: Maroon Day – not Biology class. Finish your Natural Selection simulation before class starts tomorrow and send me a photo. We WILL meet for class tomorrow.  

Fri. 5/1: Gold Day – I will send you a link to the Google Meet at 8:25am  via our Google Chat and class starts promptly at 8:30am.  Please have your BILLs and a writing utensil ready.

Agenda for today: Q&A about anything we have done so far. We will be discussing how cladograms and phylogenetic trees are used to show evolutionary relationships using this worksheet:  Cladogram Analysis.  We will only meet for about 15 minutes and work on the worksheet together. I will be “calling on you” to answer questions as we work this together. Then, complete the Amino Acid Sequences and Evolutionary Relationships worksheet.  Use a pencil to do the last problem or do on scrap paper first! Due before our next class on Tuesday 5/5.

See sections 11.9-11.10 of you book for help and more information.

Coming up next: Extinctions, begin the ecology unit

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