PREAP

__home__ =**PRE ADVANCED PLACEMENT BIOLOGY**=

100% pass rate on the Oklahoma mandated EOI Test 85% average grade or higher test scores in each of the content areas below. 50% or higher parent and student commitment to monthly study groups. Example test questions for study groups are available on request by topic. 30% or higher retention of Freshmen in AP Biology their Sophomore year.
 * GOALS:**
 * //To achieve these goals, I commit to stay at least an hour after school 90% of school days and be available during lunch if given at least one day advance notice for the purpose of tutoring, studying and/or completing lab work. I will make available on request by e-mail sample test questions with answer keys by topic.//**

Lecture/Reading Quizzes Contributions to wiki-pages Sketchbook || 2 ||
 * GRADES:** 7th hour is available for make-up work.
 * **ASSIGNMENTS** || **NUMBER OF TIMES RECORDED** ||
 * Worksheets and bookwork || 1 ||
 * Vocabulary Quizzes (No “pop” quizzes)
 * Laboratory work and Presentations || 5 ||
 * Tests (may redo with 10% deduction during 7th hour if you are not happy with your original grade) and Essays || 10 ||
 * Semester test is 20% of semester grade per LPS guidelines, unless exempt. ||  ||

Lab Notebook (may be a small 3-ring spiral or composition book) Small Sketch Pad or white paper punched with holes to fit in a portfolio Colored Pencils with sharpener Notebook with paper for notes and bookwork Pen and pencil Calculator (cell phones are not allowed). Check with your math teacher for brand & model recommendations. Recommended but not required: AP biology test prep book (several titles available as used books on-line) If you plan to enroll in AP Biology, you should keep these supplies.
 * SUPPLIES:**


 * IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DONATE SUPPLIES:** aluminum foil, liquid antibiotic soap (either in a pump dispenser, or refill bottle), paper towels, nitrile or latex gloves (all sizes), band-aids, cornstarch, baking soda

**(%)** || **AP TEST** **(%)** || content = 100% || 69% || NOTE: All percentages are approximate.
 * EOI AND AP TEST CONTENT:**
 * ||  || **TOPICS** || **EOI TEST***
 * ||  || **//Observations & Measurements//** || **//13//** || 0 ||
 * ||  || **//Classify//** || **//13//** || 0 ||
 * ||  || **//Experimental designs//** || **//27//** || 0 ||
 * ||  || **//Analysis & Communication of Data//** || **//34//** || 0 ||
 * ||  || **//Scientific Models//** || **//13//** || 0 ||
 * ||  || Cell Structures & Functions || 9 || 6 ||
 * ||  || Cell Differentiation || 4 || 2 ||
 * ||  || Cell Division || 4 || 5 ||
 * ||  || Mendelian Genetics || 4 || 4 ||
 * ||  || Molecular Genetics || 12 || 9 ||
 * ||  || Biological Diversity - Classification || 8 || 2 ||
 * ||  || Evolution || 9 || 6 ||
 * ||  || Earth Cycles (Water, Carbon, Nitrogen, etc.) || 8 || 0 ||
 * ||  || Interdependence of Organisms || 8 || 0 ||
 * ||  || Populations - Ecology || 8 || 10 ||
 * ||  || Energy & Matter Conservation (includes photosynthesis & cellular respiration) || 10 || 8 ||
 * ||  || Specialized Cells - Homeostasis || 8 || 0 ||
 * ||  || Behavior Patterns || 8 || 10 ||
 * ||  || Biochemistry || 0 || 7 ||
 * ||  || TOTALS || process = 100%
 * EOI percentages add up to 200. The questions are written so that both a **//process skill//** and a content objective may be tested within a single question. All the **//process skills//** were tested on the 8th grade CRT test. You may want to review these test scores and review specific areas independently. If you need help reviewing any areas from the 8th grade CRT, please schedule time after school with me.

The following is a tentative schedule. This may change depending on the results of the Pre-Test and other school events. This test covers a review of the 8th grade Oklahoma State required curriculum || Can you identify the variables and control group in an experimental design? ||  ||
 * CLASS SCHEDULE:**
 * **DATES** || **TOPICS** || **EXAMPLE ASSIGNMENTS** || **EXAMPLE QUESTIONS** || **EXAMPLE VOCABULARY** ||
 * Aug 19 || Process Skills from the 8th Grade CRT || PRE-TEST
 * Aug 22-Sep 2 || Populations

(Chapter 5) || 1. Lecture notes 2. Lab: Use of microscope 3. Lab: Population growth of bacteria carrying capacity, density-dependent, density-independent, population density, r-strategists, k-strategists, emigration, age structure diagram, demographic transition, demography, parts of microscope  ||
 * 1) Questions from textbook
 * 2) Review Wksht, pgs 55, 57, 59 || Organisms that mature slowly and reproduce later in life and produce few young are referred to as
 * 3) biodiversity
 * 4) carrying capacity
 * 5) pioneer species
 * 6) k-strategists
 * 7) biotic factors || __LIST__ population, logistic growth, exponential growth,
 * Sep 6 - Sep 14 || Interdependence of organisms and Earth cycles

(Chapter 3) || # Lecture notes food chain/web water cycle carbon cycle nitrogen cycle carbon cycle, carbon dioxide, nitrogen cycle, nitrates, nitrites, ammonia, free nitrogen, nitrogen-fixing bacteria, water cycle, transpiration, evaporation, precipitation, biotic, abiotic, Law of Conservation of Mass, limiting nutrient ||
 * 1) Sketches of
 * 1) Questions from textbook
 * 2) Vocab. Quiz || When a plant loses water through its leaves, this process is called
 * 3) photosynthesis
 * 4) precipitation
 * 5) respiration
 * 6) percolation
 * 7) transpiration || __LIST__ energy pyramid, consumer, producer, detritivore, omnivore, carnivore, herbivore. autotroph, heterotroph, denitrification, ammonification,
 * Sep 15-21 || Ecosystems

(Chapter 4) || Graph & Interpret (p111) Questions from text Review Crossword Puzzle Oral Test Review Comprehensive Test

weather, climate, biotic, abiotic, habitat, niche, symbiosis, mutualism, primary succession, biome, plankton, estuary, many more || (Chapter 2) While officially not part of the EOI, this information is necessary to better understand the proccesses in cells. || Lecture: enzyme inhibitor, enzyme activator concentration of substrate/enzyme Questions from Text Molecular models, Enzyme Lab Oral Quiz Review (Comprehensive) || All of the following are polymers of monosaccharides except: glycogen, starch, cellulose, maltose, glycerol.
 * STUDY QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ARE AVAILABLE FOR STUDY GROUPS ON REQUEST BY E-MAIL**. || A woman hikes to the top of Mt. Denali in Alaska. her hike starts in an area populated by coniferous trees and ends in an area where the vegetation is very short and the soil is permanently frozen 1 meter below he surface. Which of the following statements describes the woman’s hike?
 * 1) She hiked from temperate deciduous forest to tundra.
 * 2) She hiked form tundra to taiga.
 * 3) She hiked from taiga to grassland.
 * 4) She hiked from taiga to tundra.
 * 5) She hiked from tundra to temperate deciduous forest || __LIST__ __LIST__
 * Sep 21 - Oct 5 || Biochemistry

__EXAMPLE QUESTIONS__ || atom, electron, proton, neutron, valence shell, organic, carbohydrate, saccharide, protein, amino acid, lipids, phospholipids, nucleic acids, polymer, polar, covalent, hydrogen bonds, ionic, enzyme, synthesis, endothermic, exothermic, enzyme inhibitor, enzyme activator ||
 * Oct 6 - 28 || Cell Structures & Functions

(Chapter 7) || Lecture notes, Read & work from Text, worksheet, Draw & Label models, View & Sketch plant cell, animal cell, protist from microscope, Part of AP LAB 1 View & Sketch passive transport in onion cells Comprehensive Test || In animal cells, list the following in order as the most likely pathway for a protein from synthesis to secretion: rough ER, plasma membrane, ribosome, Golgi Body, secretory vesicle

__EXAMPLE QUESTIONS__ || cell membrane, cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, ribosome, prokaryote, cell wall, flagella, eukaryote, nucleus, organelle, cilia, lipid bilayer, endoplasmic reticulum, vesicle, Golgi body, lysosome, mitochondria, chloroplast, central vacuole, passive transport, concentration gradient, equilibrium, diffusion, osmosis, hypertonic, hypotonic, isotonic, active transport, Na-K pump, endocytosis, exocytosis, photosynthesis, chromatin, phagocytosis, ||
 * Oct 31- Nov 10 || Photosynthesis

(Chapter 8) || Lecture/Sketches Read/Work in Text Lab: Photosynthesis in //Elodea// Oral Quiz Extra Credit Available - two 7th hours. || The dark reactions of photosynthesis occur in the: E. intermembrane space || adenosine triphosphate thylakoid photosystem stroma NADP+ light-dependent reactions ATP ATP synthase Calvin cycle photosynthesis pigment chlorophyll carotenoid ||
 * 1) stroma
 * 2) grana
 * 3) chlorophyll
 * 4) thylakoid spaces
 * Nov 14 - 22 || Cellular Respiration

(Chapter 9) || Lecture / Sketch, Read & Work from Text, Worksheet, Relate to Photosynthesis & Carbon Cycle. Comprehensive Test (Open Notebook) || During strenuous muscle exertion, an insufficient supply of oxygen will lead to a build up of which of the following? pyruvic acid, glucose, lactic acid, acetyl CoA, ethanol

__EXAMPLE QUESTIONS__ || aerobic, anaerobic, glycolysis, NADH, NAD+ Krebs Cycle, fermentation, lactic acid, Calorie, cellular respiration, electron transport chain (ETC) || Vocabulary quiz, || Identify the stage of cell division in which each of the following occur: nuclear membrane disintegrates, chromosomes line up along midline of cell || prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, diploid, haploid, sister chromatid, cytokinesis ||
 * Nov 28 - Dec 6 || Cell Division: Mitosis and Differentiation || Lecture notes, Read Text, Sketch & Label stages of mitosis from microscope (onion root tip)
 * Dec 7 - 14 || Cell Division: Meiosis || Lecture notes, Read, Sketch & label model, Compare & contrast to mitosis, Semester Essay, and Oral Presentations Comprehensive Test || Crossing-over occurs during which of the following phases in sexual reproduction: Prophase I, Metaphase I, Anaphase I, Prophase II, Metaphase II.

Discuss the Krebs cycle, the electron transport chain and oxidative phosphorylation. Explain why these steps are considered aerobic processes. Discuss the location at which each stage occurs. Discuss the role of NADH and FADH2 in aerobic respiration || reductive cell division, meiotic recombination, chiasma, homologous pairs, law of independent assortment, zygote || Make and interpret Punnett Squares including dihybrid crosses, sex-linked traits and multiple allele traits, Make and interpret pedigree Vocabulary Quiz || An organism has three independently assorting traits AaBbCc. What fraction of its gametes will contain the recessive genes abc? || trait, genes, locus, allele, dominant, recessive, homozygous, heterozygous, phenotype, genotype, parent generation, filial generation, monohybrid cross, Punnett square, law of dominance, law of segregation, law of independent assortment, dihybrid cross, test cross, incomplete dominance, codominance, polygenetic inheritance, autosomes, sex chromosomes, sex-linked traits, carrier || Read from Text Draw and label nucleic acids. Draw and label processes Transcription/Translation Relay, Make and interpret a pedigree & Punnett square from Lorenzo’s Oil.
 * Jan 3 - 13 || Mendelian Genetics || Read Text, Lecture notes,
 * Jan 17 - 31 || Molecular Genetics || Lecture notes

Comprehensive Test || Which of the following cellular organelles is most closely associated with the transcription activity of RNA? mitochondria, nucleus, ribosomes, Golgi apparatus, Lysosome || DNA, double helix, nucleotides, nitrogeneous base, deoxyribose, adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, base pairing, complementary, RNA, DNA replication DNA helicase, replication fork, template, DNA polymerase, leading strand, lagging strand, Okazaki fragments, semiconservative, ribose, uracil, mRNA, rRNA, tRNA, protein synthesis, transcription, translation, exons, introns, codons, anticodon, peptide bond, stop codons, protein, mutation || Lab: Classify members of Kingdom Protista Vocabulary Quiz. || This organism is heterotrophic and can exist in cellular form or multi-nucleated acellular form. It is capable of amoeba-like motion. In unfavorable conditions, fruiting bodies are formed which produce spores. Is this organism a slime mold, sponge, fern, algae or angiosperm? || taxonomy, taxon, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species, protists, ciliates, flagellates, algae, fungi, mycelium, hyphae, sporophytes, gametophytes, gymnosperms, angiosperms, seed, endosperm, radial symmetry, bilateral symmetry, coelom, porifera, cnidaria, platyhelminthes, nematoda, annelida, mollusca, arthropoda, echinodermata, chordata, vertebrates || Comprehensive Test || The earliest enzymes are thought to have consisted of which of the following? protein, RNA, DNA, saccharides or triglycerides || spontaneous generation, coacervates, Precambrian, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Quaternary, fossil, homologous structures, divergent evolution, analogous structures, convergent evolution, embryology, vestigial structures, natural selection, survival of fittest, stabilizing selection, disruptive selection, directional selection, reproductive isolation, cladogenesis, allopatric speciation, adaptive radiation, sympatric speciation, punctuated equilibrium, Hardy-Weinberg || Vocab Quiz. || Which of the following is a non-density dependent factor that affects a population? spread of disease, space, earthquake, food or mating & reproduction || predation, mimicry, coevolve, parasitism, host, competition, niche, commensalism, mutualism, Fixed Action, imprinting, circadian rhythm, learning, habituation, conditioned reflex, innate, stimulus, conditioned reflex, territoriality || Apr 2-3, Apr 16-17 ||  || Practice EOI Test & Analyze scores Apr 4-6 Apr 18-20 ||  || Review frequently missed topics on Practice EOI ||   ||   || Review work as needed. Any remaining days will be spent on AP Biology or AP Environmental Science work, depending on the interests of the majority of students. ||  ||   ||
 * Feb 1 - 13 || Biological Diversity and Classification || Lecture notes, Read from text, Label anatomical features of organisms.
 * Feb 14 - 24 || Evolution || Lecture notes, Read from Text, Worksheet, Draw and interpret phylogenic trees,
 * Feb 27 - Mar 7 || Behavior || Lecture notes, Read Text, Graph populations, Solve Hardy-Weinberg
 * Mar 8-9
 * NOTE: EOI test will be sometime between April 16 and May 11.** ||  ||   ||
 * Mar 12-15,
 * Mar - Apr EOI Test date ||  || Creative Presentations
 * May 14-May 23 || Write and present semester essay. Review all previous material and semester test || Oral review and practice tests. || It is hypothesized that mitochondria and chloroplasts were originally free-living prokaryotes that formed a symbiotic relationship with eukaryotic cells. Diagram the mitochondria and the chloroplast. What function does each organelle perform in the cell? How does the structure of each organelle relate to its function? State the major reactions that take place in each organelle. What evidence exists to suggest that mitochondria and chloroplasts were originally free-living organisms? || All previous vocabulary ||

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