Cell Biology Class Schedule

Week / Topic / Monday Activities / Wednesday Activities
Week 1 (9/29-10/3) / Scientific method, What is Science, Survey of the Kingdoms / Introduction to the class
Buy books
Homework: do the first worksheet / Worksheet quiz and work
Lecture/application questions
Week 2 (10/6-10/10) / Evolution / Worksheet quiz and work
Lecture/application questions / Worksheet lecture/work
Lab Natural Selection (10 points)
Microscope lab due
Week 3 (10/13-10/17) / Cell chemistry, carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids, proteins, nucleotides, nucleic acids / Worksheet quiz and work
Worksheet lecture/work / Exam 1 (Sci Method, Evolution)
Lab:Cell Chemistry (20 points)
Natural Selection lab due
Week 4
(10/20-10/24) / Tour of the cell, structure and function of membranes, transporters and communication between cells / Worksheet quiz and work
Lecture/application questions / Worksheet lecture/work
Lab Microscopes andCells (10 points)
Cell Chemistry lab due
Week 5 (10/27-10/31) / Enzyme structure, function, catalysis, endergonic and exergonic reactions, redox reactions, potential and kinetic energy / Worksheet quiz and work
Worksheet lecture/work / Exam 2(Cell chemistry, organic molecules, and cells)
Portfolio I due
LabMembranes (20 points)
Cells lab due
Week 6 (11/3-11/7) / Light and dark reactions of photosynthesis / Worksheet quiz and work
Lecture/application questions / Worksheet lecture/work
Lab Enzymes (20 points)
Membranes lab due
Bibliography Due
Week 7 (11/10-11/14) / Energy production, glycolysis and Krebs cycle, electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation, anaerobic metabolism / Worksheet quiz and work
Worksheet lecture/work / Lab Photosynthesis (10 points)
Enzymes lab due
Week 8 (11/17-11/21) / Mitosis and Meiosis / Worksheet quiz and work
Lecture/application questions / Exam 3(Enzymes, Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration)
Lab Mitosis (10 points)
Photosynthesis lab due
Week 9 (11-24-11/28) / Mendelian genetics, independent assortment, crossing over, sex chromosomes, linkage, recombination / Worksheet quiz and work
Lecture/application questions / Worksheet lecture/work
Lab Genetics workshop/set up DNA fingerprinting (10 points)
Mitosis lab due
Research Notes due
Week 10 (12/1-12/5) / DNA structure and replication, protein synthesis, gene regulation, mutation / Worksheet quiz and work
Worksheet lecture/work / Exam 4(Mitosis, Meiosis, genetics, DNA replication and protein synthesis)
Portfolio II Due
Lab DNA fingerprinting (20 points)
Genetics lab due
Finals week
(12/8-12/12) / DNA fingerprinting lab due
Final project assessment fair / Final project assessment fair