AP Biology Quarter 3: Weeks 25-27

February 28-March 18, 2011

DATE / IN CLASS / HOMEWORK
Monday
(6,7; 95 min.)
2/28/11 / Nervous System
* What is the evolutionary value of a centralized nervous system? How does the structure of a neuron enable the creation of an action potential? / 1. Ch 28.1-9 Study Guide
DUE: W 3/2
Wednesday
(6,7; 80 min.)
3/2/11 / Nervous System
*How does the nervous system interact with the endocrine and muscular systems? / 1. Ch 28.10-21 Study Guide
DUE: M 3/1
2. Animal Assessment
DUE: T 3/9

Friday

(6,7; 95 min.)
3/4/11 / Skeletal/Muscular System
*How does the structural organization of actin and myosin in a sarcomere allow for muscle contraction? / 1. Ch 30 Study Guide
DUE: Th 2/10
2. Animal Assessment
DUE: T 3/9
Tuesday
(6,7; 95 min.)
3/8/11 / Animal Assessment
* Demonstration of Understanding / 1. Ch 17, 31 Study Guides
DUE: M 3/15

Monday

(6,7; 95 min.)
3/14/11 / Plant Phylogeny, Structure, Reproduction, and Development
*How do the life cycles of plant divisions demonstrate evolutionary trends? How does plant structure demonstrate evolutionary trends? How does plant reproduction differ from animals? / 1. Ch 32 Study Guide
DUE: W 3/17
2. AP Lab 9 Prelab
DUE: F 3/19

Wednesday

(6,7; 80 min.)
3/16/11 / Plant Nutrition and Transport
* How do plants obtain and transport water and nutrients? / 1. AP Lab 9 Prelab
DUE: F 3/19
2. Ch 33 Study Guide
DUE: M-T 3/22-23

Friday

(6,7; 95 min.)
3/18/11 / AP Lab 9: Transpiration
* What environmental factors affect the rate of transpiration? / 1. AP Lab 9 Post Lab
DUE: M-T 3/22-23
2. Ch 33 Study Guide
DUE: M-T 3/22-23

Knowledge:

Nervous System Structure and Function

  • Nervous system function: sensory input, integration, motor output
  • Neuron structure

Nerve Signals and their Transmission

  • Membrane potential (sodium and potassium pumps) and nerve signal transmission (resting potential, action potential, threshold potential)
  • Nerve propagation and synapses
  • Chemical synapses and neurotransmitters
  • Drugs and the nervous system

The Nervous System and Human Brain

  • Comparative anatomy of nervous systems
  • Cephalization of nervous systems
  • Peripheral nervous system: sensory division, motor division (sympathetic and parasympathetic)
  • Embryological development of the human brain
  • Structure of the brain: cortex, sleep and arousal, limbic system, chemical changes of memory

Movement and Locomotion

  • Evolutionary adaptations of locomotion

Skeletal Support

  • Comparative anatomy of skeletal systems: support, movement and protection
  • Structure of human skeleton: axial vs. appendicular
  • Structure and function of bones

Muscle Contraction and Movement

  • Muscle structure
  • Muscle function: contraction and the sliding filament model
  • Muscle contraction and nerves

Plant Evolution and Diversity

  • Characteristics of plants
  • Plant evolution and Charophyceans
  • Evolutionary trends in plants: origins of plants, vascularization, seeds, flowering

Alternation of Generations and Plant Life Cycles

  • Plant life cycles
  • Mosses: dominant gametophyte
  • Ferns: dominant sporophyte
  • Seedless plants and fossil fuels
  • Conifers and gametophyte cones
  • Angiosperms and gametophyte flowers
  • Fruit and seed dispersal
  • Agriculture and angiosperms, animals and angiosperm evolution, plant diversity

Fungi

  • Movement of plants and fungi onto land
  • Fungi nutrition
  • Fungi lifecycle: diploid, haploid, dikaryotic
  • Lichens
  • Parasitic fungi
  • Ecological and human importance of fungi

Plant Structure and Function

  • Monocots vs. dicots
  • Plant structure and adaptations
  • Plant tissues: parenchyma, collenchyma, sclerenchyma, water conducting cells, food conducting cells
  • Tissue systems: epidermis, ground tissue, vascular tissue

Plant Growth

  • Intermediate vs. determinant growth, primary vs. secondary growth

Plant Reproduction

  • Flower structure and flowering plant lifecycle
  • Development of pollen and fertilization
  • Development of ovules, seeds, and ovaries, seed germination
  • Asexual reproduction

Uptake and Transport of Plant Nutrients

  • Uptake of water and nutrients and water by roots: Casparian strip
  • Transpiration-cohesion-tension mechanism
  • Guard cells and transpiration
  • Pressure-flow mechanism

Plant Nutrients and the Soil

  • Plant nutrients and soil structure
  • Fungi and plant symbioses, adaptations for obtaining nutrients, plants and bacteria

Plant Nutrients and Agriculture

  • Agricultural research and GMO

C. Gay 2/6/11Steamboat Springs High School AP Biology