18 Apr 2024 GRADE 12 BIOLOGY. Word of the Day: Locus
Announcements
- No classes Friday 19 Apr, Teacher Conference
- Earth Day and Spring Feast Monday 22 Apr 11:30 to 13:00. Lunch provided. (Lasagna!)
- Progress reports issued yesterday. Marks to office for sponsors in two weeks, get overdue assignments in, penalty if > a week overdue.
Today:
- WEEKLY QUIZ. The regular weekly Thursday Quiz. If for some one-off legitime reason a student is unable to attend, it is possible with a timely request (by 14:00) to e-mail the quiz for a timely return.
- Assgt A-6 Chapter 11 WordFind. Vocabulary is very important, make sure you undestand many of these words, some are from Section 11.4 still to be completed.
- Read and then Study Unit A Reference Reading Notes in Section 11.4. The coloured version may be more useful: Chapter 11 Coloured
- Finish the Chapter 11 Study Guide pp. 10 -19 for the Section 11.14 and Chapeter Review
- The meiosis process is intense. Here is one of the better LInks to explain it: Human Biology Textbook – Sexual Reproduction
- Movie: Modelling Mitosis and Meiosis. A must See movie that explains the wonders and complexities. We do not go crazy on the detailed cell cycle explanations.
- How goes your Cheat Sheet Preparation: Study Notes Preparation and Rubric. An EXTRA 5% submitted with the final exam
- Advance Issue: Assgt A-7 SuperBaby Project.
- Explanation of the Superbaby Project.
- Next Section of Genetics we study is Human Heredity. Check in the issued Unit A Genetics Reference Reading section 14.1 and ‘survey’ that content. See the nicer on-line coloured version of Chapter 14.
USEFUL AND SUPPLEMENTAL RESOURCES
- NEW. David Suzuki- The Nature of Things. Check out many years of the David Suzuki documentaries
- MrD Biology Teacher Video Series. Mr D does our entire course! Same text, different edition. Videos are not a good way to learn though!
- MrD’s Biology Videos for all of current Chapter 11. Here is where we are presently with him!
- Bozeman Science. Another Biology Techer Video Series, more advanced level.
- Crash Course Biology. Another great Biology Video Series. Try this one in particular.
- Human Biology Textbook. An open on-line text book! Wonderful for the bus ride home. Check out our pending studies; Meiosis
- Biology Glossaries. Not sure what a word means? [me neither!] A basic selection of multiple Biology Glossaries!
- NEW LINK: Daily Lessons uploaded to Shared File Folder and printed out at front of class. Teacher accidentally broke the previous link!
- Human Biology Reference. A new wonderful on-line open text source for biology. Covers every topic we will study at slightly elevated level. Use the Table of Contents.