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BIOLOGY 112
Evolution, Form and Function
of Organisms
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ATTEND
SUPPLEMENTAL INSTRUCTION SESSIONS FOR EXTRA HELP
FROM YOUR
SI LEADER - Dan Taber
I strongly encourage you to attend SI
sessions regularly, right from the beginning of the semester.
These are
peer-to-peer work sessions that will both sharpen your study
skills and deepen your understanding of the material.
Dan took
my class last fall and did an outstanding job. Most of our SI
leaders have spent a
lot of
time
in SI themselves, and have learned how to apply knowledge to
answer
complex
questions. Dan will have plenty
of examples of the
application oriented questions that I use on exams, and will help
you learn how to work
through these questions so that YOU TOO can
become successful!
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Extra Credit
Opportunities - see below
for more
Type
a brief summary of the event, including how it helped you.
All extra credit is due on the last day of classes,
though I encourage
you to write up your experiences while they are still fresh in your
mind. All extra credit work MUST be typed.
STUDY
SKILLS SEMINARS at THE
CENTER FOR STUDENT LEARNING
I strongly encourage you to attend these seminars. Many students
have told me that they "thought they knew how to study" until they got
into my class.
This class requires a great deal of critical,
analytical thinking and the application of knowledge to solve
problems. Straight memorization DOES NOT WORK!
My students
have often told me that these seminars helped them prepare for this new
way of thinking and learning.
Location and Times:
ECTR 116
Wednesdays 6-6:45 pm
Thursdays
4-4:45 pm
2 & 3
September:
Time
Flies!
9 & 10 September: Re-Think Research!
16 & 17
September: Read
and Remember!
23 & 24 September: Noteworthy Notes!
30
September and 1 October: Take
your Best Test!
7 &8
October: The Advising Advantage!
14 and 15 October: Tried
and True: Study Strategies
from College
of Charleston
Student Mentors
21 & 22
October: Contents Under Pressure! Managing
Stress in
College
28 and 29
October:
Memory Matters!
4 & 5 November: Career Center: Not Just for Seniors!
11
& 12 November: Plan
for Exams!
The
Study Skills Express
Fridays, 12-12:30 pm in the Study Skills Lab at the Addlestone
4 September: Time Flies!
11 September: Read and Remember!
18 September: Noteworthy Notes!
25 September: Take your Best Test!
13 November: Plan for Exams!
Attend any of these seminars
and turn in a brief, typed summary for extra credit!
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More
Extra Credit Opportunities:
Keep checking back.....I'll add in
events as I learn about them. Let me know if you have a
suggestion for an EC opportunity.
Participate in Hunger and
Homelessness Awareness Week, 16-21 November
Make a REAL contribution to science through the Folding@Home
project, run by Stanford University.
This is a distributed computing project that essentially links many
personal computers together to make
a gigantic super-duper-supercomputer. The project is working to
determine how proteins fold, or don't.....
Evaluate an issue - traditional dolphin hunting in Japan: read these
articles, and find more that discuss both sides of this
controversial practice. Write an opinion piece based on your
research. Be careful about your sources - not everything on
the web is unbiased information.......in fact, on Dan's advice, I've
removed one of the sources I had previously linked because
of their anti-science bias.......
http://www.savejapandolphins.org/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091021/ennew_afp/japananimalenvironmentdolphins
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/090810-cove-movie-dolphins-ngm.html
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1923252,00.html
A couple more super-cool National Geographic articles for you to review
- be sure to look at the photo galleries!
Sneaky
Orchids
A
Really Big Spider
Some
Really Big Trees
Crocodilians
The
Tsingy of Madagascar
Read this fascinating article from the NYTimes
on the early evolution of the flowering plants - it's relevant to both
our discussions
on evolution, and our up-coming discussions on the flowering
plants. I'm not sure how long the link will stay active, so do
this
one soon.
Last spring I read an astonishing
commentary on world poverty and
hunger. I want you to know what is really
going on with 44% of the world's population. Yes, I said
44%. Click on this pdf file,
and put the word "generational" in
the search line. Or else, scroll to page 21. Read every
word of
this commentary and give me some non-trivial feedback.
What can you do? What WILL you do? Reprinted with much appreciated permission
from the CSA News
magazine,
April 2009. Copyright
ASA-CSSA-SSSA
Here's a somewhat different perspective - offered with no comment: http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?id=3331
And a book that Dan recommends is The End of Poverty by economist Jeffrey Sachs
Another book recommended by Dan - Why
Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne
The August issue of National Geographic has a fantastic article on the
evolution of deception in animals.
Read the article
and write a short summary that also relates what you learn from the
article to what you
are learning in class. Be sure you see all the photos! Do
this one soon - I'm not sure how long the link
will stay active.
Standing
offers:
Biology Department Seminars, most Monday's at noon in
239 SCIC - check the second floor for flyers
Volunteer to
help our community's youth at the Shaw
Unit of the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Trident Area
Any volunteer service to help the community. Type up notes about
your experience and how it might relate to biology.
REMEMBER - ALL
EXTRA CREDIT IS DUE ON THE LAST DAY OF CLASS - 7 December
though I
encourage you to turn it in
as you complete it
LECTURE OUTLINES - you will need Microsoft Word to open these
#1:
Darwinian evolution
#2:
Evolution of populations
#3: The
origin of species
#4:
Plant
structure,
growth and development
#5:
Vascular
plant transport
#6:
Plant
nutrition and soils
EXTRA - Soil Forming Factors Handout
#7:
Angiosperm reproduction
#8:
Animal form and function
#9:
Animal nutrition and digestion
#10:
Animal circulation and gas exchange
#11:
Animal
osmoregulation
#12:
Animal
immune system
#13:
Animal
nervous system
If we have time.....
#14: The endocrine system
#15: Animal reproduction
#16: Animal development
#17: Sensory and motor mechanisms
LECTURE
POWERPOINTS- you will need
Microsoft PowerPoint to open these
NOTE: all graphics have been
removed to reduce file size and protect copyrights.
You can find
similar graphics by using an image search engine.
Please
consider our
environment before you choose to print these - many
of them are very large files.
It
would be most thoughtful to just
keep them on your computer.
If
you feel compelled to
print them, please print at least 6 slides per page.
#1:
Darwinian evolution - before,
after
#2:
Evolution of populations - before,
after
#3: The
origin of species - before,
after
#4:
Plant
structure,
growth and development - before,
after
#5:
Vascular
plant transport - before,
after
#6:
Plant
nutrition and soils - before,
after
#7:
Angiosperm reproduction - before,
after
Please
let me know if you cannot download this file and I will email you a
copy.
There is something corrupted in the file, and I can't
figure out what. Some people can download it, some can't.
#8:
Animal form and function - before,
after
#9:
Animal nutrition and digestion -
before,
after
#10:
Animal circulation and gas exchange - before,
after
#11: Animal
osmoregulation
- before,
after
#12: Animal
immune system - before,
after
#13: The
animal
nervous system - before,
after
Help with learning how to study effectively for this course:
You are required to pick up your
first quiz from Ms. Coleman at the Center for Student Learning in the
library.
She and I have been working together
this summer to develop materials to help you be successful in this
course.
Success in this course requires that you learn effective study techniques
right from the start of the semester. We
want to help you be proactive, rather
than reactive. She will have a short presentation and many
handouts
to help you. Sessions
will be at the CSL:
Monday, 31 August at 11am and 1pm
Tuesday, 1 September at 9:30am and 11am
Wednesday, 2 September at 2pm
Ms. Coleman has agreed to set up a session on Friday, 4 September at
2pm.
She and I both have sign up sheets.
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