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Bio1100 | Survey of Biology: Section 1100-003,004 Code 52257,52158 |
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| Below is the Bio1100 lecture schedule. See bio1100 full schedule for a complete list of labs/exams, holidays, and assignment dates. | ||
| Tue | 8/24 | Chapter 1 The Science of Biology
Chapter 1 xtra credit Microbes Turn Electricity Directly To Methane ScienceDaily 3/30/09 |
| Thu | 8/26 | Chapter 1 The Science of Biology
Chapter 1 xtra credit Microbes Turn Electricity Directly To Methane ScienceDaily 3/30/09 |
| Tue | 8/31 | Chapter 3 The Chemistry of Life
Chapter 3 xtra credit How an Evaporative Cooler Works California Energy Commission 2006 Chapter 3 xtra credit How lizards walk on water BBC News 11/24/04 |
| Thu | 9/02 | Chapter 4 Molecules of Life
Chapter 4 xtra credit How to Use Glycogen Loading to Avoid Getting Fat or Flat Ori Hofmekler Chapter 4 xtra credit The Benefits And Risks Of Honey Consumption ArticlesBase 10/25/06 Chapter 4 xtra credit State bans trans fats Los Angeles Times 7/26/08 |
| Tue | 9/07 | Chapter 5 Cells
Chapter 5 xtra credit Reverse Osmosis Moves Forward. Environmental Health Perspectives Jan 2005 Chapter 5 xtra credit Mitochondrial Inheritance Genetic Drift Winter/94 |
| Wed | 9/08 | Video |
| Thu | 9/09 | Chapter 5 Cells
Chapter 5 xtra credit Reverse Osmosis Moves Forward. Environmental Health Perspectives Jan 2005 Chapter 5 xtra credit Mitochondrial Inheritance Genetic Drift Winter/94 |
| Tue | 9/14 | TEST 1; chaps 1,3,4,5 (???) |
| Thu | 9/16 | Chapter 6 Energy and Life
Chapter 6 xtra credit Thermostable DNA Polymerases Colorado State University 12/27/99 |
| Tue | 9/21 | Chapter 6 Energy and Life
Chapter 6 xtra credit Thermostable DNA Polymerases Colorado State University 12/27/99 |
| Thu | 9/23 | Chapter 7 Photosynthesis: Acquiring Energy from the Sun
Chapter 7 xtra credit Spinach Power Adds Muscle to Batteries New York Times 11/11/04 Chapter 7 xtra credit Carotenoids: The Anti-Aging Antioxidants Antioxidants for Health and Longevity 2009 Chapter 7 xtra credit Cellulosic ethanol output could explode Reuters 1/9/09 |
| Tue | 9/28 | Chapter 8 How Cells Harvest Energy from Food
Chapter 8 xtra credit An Introduction to Probiotics National Institutes of Health Aug 2008 Chapter 8 xtra credit Algae: Biofuel Of The Future? ScienceDaily 8/19/08 Chapter 8 xtra credit New Risks for Nexium and Other Proton Pump Inhibitors Wall Street Journal 5/11/10 |
| Thu | 9/30 | Chapter 8 How Cells Harvest Energy from Food
Chapter 8 xtra credit An Introduction to Probiotics National Institutes of Health Aug 2008 Chapter 8 xtra credit Algae: Biofuel Of The Future? ScienceDaily 8/19/08 Chapter 8 xtra credit New Risks for Nexium and Other Proton Pump Inhibitors Wall Street Journal 5/11/10 |
| Tue | 10/05 | Chapter 9 Mitosis
Chapter 9 xtra credit Ear today, gone tomorrow? USA Today 6/19/03 Chapter 9 xtra credit Proto-Oncogenes and Normal Cell Growth National Cancer Institute 09/01/06 Chapter 9 xtra credit Proto-oncogenes to Oncogenes to Cancer Nature Education 2008 |
| Thu | 10/07 | Chapter 10 Meiosis
Chapter 10 xtra credit Are Males Genetically Doomed? Futurist Mar/Apr 05 Chapter 10 xtra credit The XX Brain and the XY Brain Psychiatric Times Aug 05 |
| Tue | 10/12 | TEST 2; chaps 6,7,8,9,10 (???) |
| Thu | 10/14 | Chapter 11 Foundations of Genetics
Chapter 11 xtra credit Huntington's Disease National Institutes of Health Human Gene Map Chapter 11 xtra credit A Sweet Remedy for Huntington's? New Scientist 1/21/04 Chapter 11 xtra credit Baby Mix-Up Times Online 10/10/07 |
| Mon | 10/18 | Chapter 36 Reproduction and Development
Chapter 36 xtra credit Amphiprion ocellaris, Clown Anemonefish: protandrous hermaphroditism MarineBio Chapter 36 xtra credit Social hierarchies: Size and growth modification in clownfish Nature 7/10/03 Chapter 36 xtra credit In Ducks, War of the Sexes Plays Out in the Evolution of Genitalia New York Times 5/1/07 |
| Tue | 10/19 | LAB EXAM 1 (???) |
| Wed | 10/20 | Chapter 36 Reproduction and Development
Chapter 36 xtra credit Amphiprion ocellaris, Clown Anemonefish: protandrous hermaphroditism MarineBio Chapter 36 xtra credit Social hierarchies: Size and growth modification in clownfish Nature 7/10/03 Chapter 36 xtra credit In Ducks, War of the Sexes Plays Out in the Evolution of Genitalia New York Times 5/1/07 |
| Thu | 10/21 | Chapter 18 How We Name Living Things
Chapter 18 xtra credit Birds that make teeth EurekAlert 2/21/06 Chapter 18 xtra credit NZ flatulence tax outrages farmers BBC News 6/20/03 Chapter 18 xtra credit Cow Power Could Generate Electricity For Millions ScienceDaily 7/25/08 |
| Tue | 10/26 | Chapter 12 DNA: The Genetic Material
Chapter 12 xtra credit 'Jumping Genes' Create Diversity In Human Brain Cells ScienceDaily 8/6/09 Chapter 12 xtra credit Sleeping Beauty Plays a Significant Role in Identifying Cancer Genes National Cancer Institute 7/13/05 |
| Thu | 10/28 | Chapter 13 How Genes Work
Chapter 13 xtra credit The Sea Change That's Challenging Biology's Central Dogma Discover Magazine 11/3/09 |
| Tue | 11/02 | Chapter 13 How Genes Work
Chapter 13 xtra credit The Sea Change That's Challenging Biology's Central Dogma Discover Magazine 11/3/09 |
| Thu | 11/04 | Chapter 19 Prokaryotes: The First Single-Celled Creatures
Chapter 19 xtra credit Hunting Fossil Viruses in Human DNA New York Times 1/11/10 Chapter 19 xtra credit Ancient bacteria brought back to life Science News 5/20/95 |
| Tue | 11/09 | Chapter 14 Gene Technology
Chapter 14 xtra credit Mosquito with glowing gonads to help battle malaria Science News 10/10/05 Chapter 14 xtra credit Roundup Ready Corn Versus Roundup Ready Weeds U of Illinois extension 2/13/06 |
| Thu | 11/11 | Chapter 15 Genomics
Chapter 15 xtra credit Spot Your Genes - An Overview Of The Microarray Science Creative Quarterly August 04 Chapter 15 xtra credit Judge Invalidates Human Gene Patent New York Times 3/29/10 |
| Tue | 11/16 | TEST 3; chaps 11,12,13,14,15,18,19,36 (???) |
| Thu | 11/18 | Chapter 16 The Revolution in Cell Technology
Chapter 16 xtra credit Mosquito with glowing gonads to help battle malaria Science News 10/10/05 Chapter 16 xtra credit Dolly Was Lucky Science News 01 Chapter 16 xtra credit Cloners create world's first copy-cat NewScientist 2/15/2002 |
| Mon | 11/22 | Video |
| Tue | 11/23 | Chapter 2 Evolution and Ecology, 17 Evolution and Natural Selection
Chapter 2 xtra credit Did Darwin get it wrong? Searching for the ancestor of Darwin's finches On Science 2005 Chapter 2 xtra credit Origin and Evolutionary Relationships of Giant Galápagos Tortoises PNAS 11/9/99 Chapter 2 xtra credit New Twist on Origin of Human Species PhysOrg.com 5/17/06 Chapter 17 xtra credit What is a molecular clock? PhysOrg.com 11/20/08 Chapter 17 xtra credit Survival of the Weak and Scrawny Newsweek 1/12/09 Chapter 17 xtra credit First Chimp Fossils Found; Humans Were Neighbors National Geographic News 8/31/05 |
| Mon | 11/29 | Chapter 37 Populations and Communities
Chapter 37 xtra credit The Great Locust Mystery Colorado Millennium 2000 6/22/99 Chapter 37 xtra credit Intracellular symbioses in insects U. of York Chapter 37 xtra credit Poison From Frog Skin Leads to a Painkiller New York Times 1/2/98 |
| Tue | 11/30 | LAB EXAM 2 (???) |
| Wed | 12/01 | Chapter 37 Populations and Communities
Chapter 37 xtra credit The Great Locust Mystery Colorado Millennium 2000 6/22/99 Chapter 37 xtra credit Intracellular symbioses in insects U. of York Chapter 37 xtra credit Poison From Frog Skin Leads to a Painkiller New York Times 1/2/98 |
| Thu | 12/02 | Chapter 38 Ecosystems
Chapter 38 xtra credit Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone' to grow dramatically due to federal biofuel mandate Mother Nature Network 9/16/09 |
| Tue | 12/07 | Chapter 39 Behavior and the Environment
Chapter 39 xtra credit Waggle Dance Controversy Resolved By Radar ScienceDaily 5/12/05 Chapter 39 xtra credit As Autumn Approaches, This Chickadee's Brain Begins To Expand ScienceDaily 9/12/03 Chapter 39 xtra credit A Fantastic Dragonfly Migration Suite101 10/3/09 |
| Thu | 12/09 | Chapter 40 How Humans Influence the Living World
Chapter 40 xtra credit The Story of the Stephens Island Wren BBC 6/2/06 Chapter 40 xtra credit Shipwreck Rat Fears For St Kilda Birds Scottish Daily Record 2/2/08 Chapter 40 xtra credit Gribble could hold key to cellulosic biofuel Institution of Chemical Engineers 3/9/10 |
| Tue | 12/14 | TEST 4; chaps 2,16,17,37,38,39,40 (???) Research Homework Due |
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Instructor: Peter Chen |