Enhancement Exercises for Biology

By Byron J. Adams • © 01/01/2017 • 344 Pages
Loose Leaf Format • Print ISBN 9781617315336 • eBook ISBN9781617317873

Table of contents

Exercise 1: Characteristics of Living Things
Ex 1, Activity 1: Key Terms
2 Pages
Ex 1, Activity 2: Careful Observation of Non-Living and Living Things
2 Pages
Ex 1, Activity 3: Identifying Things That Blur the Line
1 Pages
Ex 1, Activity 4: Synthesis
2 Pages
Ex 1 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Exercise 2: The Nature of Science
Ex 2, Activity 1: Key Terms
2 Pages
Ex 2, Activity 2: How Do We Know What We Know?
2 Pages
Ex 2, Activity 3: Is Astrology Scientific?
4 Pages
Ex 2 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 2, Activity 4: Science or Pseudoscience?
3 Pages
Ex 2, Activity 5: Skepticism versus Denialism
1 Pages
Ex 2, Activity 6: Synthesis
1 Pages
Exercise 3: Scientific Method
Ex 3 Objectives and Background Info
2 Pages
Ex 3, Activity 1: Key Terms
2 Pages
Ex 3, Activity 2: Careful Observation of Animal Behavior
2 Pages
Ex 3, Activity 3: Generating Testable and Falsifiable Hypotheses
3 Pages
Ex 3, Activity 4: Synthesis
2 Pages
Exercise 4: Experimental, Observational, and Theoretical Science
Ex 4 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 4, Activity 1: Key Terms
3 Pages
Ex 4, Activity 2: Efficacy of a New Facial Cream
2 Pages
Ex 4, Activity 3: Antarctic Worms and Climate Change
2 Pages
Ex 4, Activity 4: Your Own Design
2 Pages
Ex 4, Activity 5: Synthesis
1 Pages
Exercise 5: Atomic Structure: Subatomic Particles and Electron Shells
Ex 5 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 5, Activity 1: Key Terms
2 Pages
Ex 5, Activity 2: Understanding Atomic Structure
2 Pages
Ex 5, Activity 3: Synthesis
3 Pages
Exercise 6: Chemical Bonding: Covalent, Ionic, and Hydrogen Bonds
Ex 6 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 6, Activity 1: Key Terms
2 Pages
Ex 6 Electronegativity Table of the Elements
1 Pages
Ex 6, Activity 2: Electronegativity
1 Pages
Ex 6, Activity 3: The Structure of Chemical Bonds
1 Pages
Ex 6, Activity 4: Surface Tension
1 Pages
Ex 6, Activity 5: Synthesis
7 Pages
Exercise 7: Biologically Important Compounds and Molecules
Ex 7 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 7, Activity 1: Key Terms
1 Pages
Ex 7, Activity 2: Observations in a Soda Bottle
2 Pages
Ex 7, Activity 3: Cleaning Oil-Soaked Feathers
4 Pages
Ex 7, Activity 4: Synthesis
1 Pages
Exercise 8: Cell Membranes: Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cell Structures
Ex 8 Objectives and Background Info
2 Pages
Ex 8, Activity 1: Key Terms
3 Pages
Ex 8, Activity 2: Simulation of a Cell Membrane
3 Pages
Ex 8, Activity 3: Chart of Differences
1 Pages
Ex 8, Activity 4: Drawing Cells
1 Pages
Ex 8, Activity 5: Synthesis
3 Pages
Exercise 9: Cell Structure and Function: Diffusion and Osmosis
Ex 9 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 9, Activity 1: Key Terms
2 Pages
Ex 9, Activity 2: Rate of Diffusion in Water
3 Pages
Ex 9, Activity 3: Rate of Diffusion in Gelatin
2 Pages
Ex 9, Activity 4: Osmosis
2 Pages
Ex 9, Activity 5: Cellular Response to Hypertonic and Hypotonic Solutions
2 Pages
Ex 9, Activity 6: Synthesis
2 Pages
Exercise 10: Energy Conversion in Eukaryotic Cells: Respiration
Ex 10 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 10, Activity 1: Key Terms
2 Pages
Ex 10, Activity 2: Reduction/Oxidation (Redox) Reactions
2 Pages
Ex 10, Activity 3: Observing Fermentation
1 Pages
Ex 10, Activity 4: Understanding the Electron Transport Chain and Oxidative Phosphorylation
1 Pages
Ex 10, Activity 5: Synthesis
2 Pages
Exercise 11: Energy Conversion in Eukaryotic Cells: Photosynthesis
Ex 11 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 11, Activity 1: Key Terms
3 Pages
Ex 11, Activity 2: Light and Chlorophyll
3 Pages
Ex 11, Activity 3: Understanding Photosynthesis
4 Pages
Ex 11, Activity 4: Teach it!
1 Pages
Ex 11, Activity 5: Synthesis
3 Pages
Exercise 12: Mendelian Genetics: Monohybrid and Dihybrid Crosses
Ex 12 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 12, Activity 1: Key Terms
3 Pages
Ex 12, Activity 2: Monohybrid Crosses
3 Pages
Ex 12, Activity 3: Dihybrid Crosses
2 Pages
Ex 12, Activity 4: Synthesis
3 Pages
Exercise 13: Mendelian Genetics: Genotypes and the Human Face Exercise
Ex 13 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 13, Activity 1: Key Terms
2 Pages
Ex 13, Activity 2: Building a Model Face
7 Pages
Ex 13, Activity 3: Replication
1 Pages
Ex 13, Activity 4: Meiosis
2 Pages
Ex 13, Activity 5: Creating a New Generation
2 Pages
Ex 13, Activity 6: Synthesis
1 Pages
Exercise 14: Patterns of Inheritance: Pedigrees and Sex-Linked Traits
Ex 14 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 14, Activity 1: Key Terms
1 Pages
Ex 14, Activity 2: Inheritance of Sex-Linked Traits
1 Pages
Ex 14, Activity 3: Genetic Pattern of Color Blindness
1 Pages
Ex 14, Activity 4: Synthesis
2 Pages
Exercise 15: Genetics of ABO and Rh Blood Groups
Ex 15 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 15, Activity 1: Key Terms
2 Pages
Ex 15, Activity 2: Blood Types
3 Pages
Ex 15, Activity 3: Rh Factor
1 Pages
Ex 15, Activity 4: Synthesis
2 Pages
Exercise 16: Structure and Replication of DNA
Ex 16 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 16, Activity 1: Key Terms
3 Pages
Ex 16, Activity 2: Structure of DNA
3 Pages
Ex 16, Activity 3: DNA Synthesis
1 Pages
Ex 16, Activity 4: The Replisome
1 Pages
Ex 16, Activity 5: Synthesis
1 Pages
Exercise 17: Structure and Function of RNA
Ex 17 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 17, Activity 1: Key Terms
2 Pages
Ex 17, Activity 2: Structural Differences between DNA and RNA
1 Pages
Ex 17, Activity 3: Structure of tRNA
1 Pages
Ex 17, Activity 4: Structure of rRNA
1 Pages
Ex 17, Activity 5: Synthesis
3 Pages
Exercise 18: Transcription and Translation
Ex 18 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 18, Activity 1: Key Terms
2 Pages
Ex 18, Activity 2: Transcription
1 Pages
Ex 18, Activity 3: Translation
1 Pages
Ex 18, Activity 4: Transcription and Translation Chart
2 Pages
Ex 18, Activity 5: Comparison of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Transcription and Translation
1 Pages
Ex 18, Activity 6: Teaching Transcription
1 Pages
Ex 18, Activity 7: Teaching Translation
1 Pages
Ex 18, Activity 8: Synthesis
1 Pages
Exercise 19: Control of Gene Expression
Ex 19 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 19, Activity 1: Key Terms
3 Pages
Ex 19, Activity 2: Control Elements of the lac Operon
1 Pages
Ex 19, Activity 3: Summary of Gene Regulation: The lac Operon
2 Pages
Ex 19, Activity 4: Regulation of Gene Expression
2 Pages
Ex 19, Activity 5: Positive and Negative Regulation of Gene Expression in the lac Operon
2 Pages
Ex 19, Activity 6: Synthesis
2 Pages
Exercise 20: Techniques of Molecular Genetics: DNA Extraction
Ex 20 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 20, Activity 1: Key Terms
1 Pages
Ex 20, Activity 2: DNA Extraction
2 Pages
Ex 20, Activity 3: Synthesis
1 Pages
Exercise 21: Chemosynthetic Origin of Life and the Origin of the Eukaryotic Cell
Ex 21 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 21, Activity 1: Key Terms
2 Pages
Ex 21, Activity 2: RNA World Theory and the Chemosynthetic Origin of Life
1 Pages
Ex 21, Activity 3: Major Events in Earth History
1 Pages
Ex 21, Activity 4: Symbiogenesis and the Origin of Mitochondria and Chloroplasts
3 Pages
Ex 21, Activity 5: Synthesis
1 Pages
Exercise 22: History of Evolutionary Thought
Ex 22 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 22, Activity 1: Key Terms
3 Pages
Ex 22, Activity 2: Darwin's Influences
3 Pages
Ex 22, Activity 3: Patterns and Process
4 Pages
Ex 22, Activity 4: Intelligent Design
2 Pages
Ex 22, Activity 5: Synthesis
2 Pages
Exercise 23: Tree Thinking: Phylogenetics
Ex 23 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 23, Activity 1: Key Terms
3 Pages
Ex 23, Activity 2: Building a Phylogenetic Tree
3 Pages
Ex 23, Activity 3: Reading and Interpreting Phylogenetic Trees
3 Pages
Ex 23, Activity 4: Synthesis
2 Pages
Exercise 24: Mechanisms of Evolution
Ex 24 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 24, Activity 1: Key Terms
2 Pages
Ex 24, Activity 2: The Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium Model
1 Pages
Ex 24, Activity 3: Natural Selection on Bird Beak Length
4 Pages
Ex 24, Activity 4: Synthesis
2 Pages
Exercise 25: Species Concepts and Speciation
Ex 25 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 25, Activity 1: Key Terms
3 Pages
Ex 25, Activity 2: Species Concepts
2 Pages
Ex 25, Activity 3: Speciation
4 Pages
Ex 25, Activity 4: Reproductive Isolation and Reinforcement
2 Pages
Ex 25, Activity 5: Synthesis
4 Pages
Exercise 26: The Tree of Life: Survey of Bacteria and Archaea
Ex 26 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 26, Activity 1: Key Terms
2 Pages
Ex 26, Activity 2: Attributes of Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya
1 Pages
Ex 26, Activity 3: The Tree of Life
2 Pages
Ex 26, Activity 4: Functional Diversity of Prokaryotes
2 Pages
Ex 26, Activity 5: Global Ecosystem Engineering
2 Pages
Ex 26, Activity 6: Synthesis
1 Pages
Exercise 27: Survey of Eukarya: Fungi and Lichens
Ex 27 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 27, Activity 1: Key Terms
2 Pages
Ex 27, Activity 2: Exploring Fungal and Lichen Biodiversity
1 Pages
Ex 27, Activity 3: Synthesis
2 Pages
Exercise 28: Survey of Eukarya: Plantae (Viridiplantae)
Ex 28 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 28, Activity 1: Key Terms
2 Pages
Ex 28, Activity 2: Phylogenetic Position of Plantae (Viridiplantae)
2 Pages
Ex 28, Activity 3: Plant Structure
2 Pages
Ex 28, Activity 4: Exploring Plant Biodiversity
1 Pages
Ex 28, Activity 5: Synthesis
2 Pages
Exercise 29: Survey of Eukarya: Metazoa
Ex 29 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 29, Activity 1: Key Terms
1 Pages
Ex 29, Activity 2: Exploring Animal Biodiversity
1 Pages
Ex 29, Activity 3: Synthesis
2 Pages
Exercise 30: Animal Behavior
Ex 30 Objectives and Background Info
2 Pages
Ex 30, Activity 1: Key Terms
2 Pages
Ex 30, Activity 2: Scientific Contributions
1 Pages
Ex 30, Activity 3: Observations of Animals
3 Pages
Ex 30, Activity 4: Synthesis
3 Pages
Exercise 31: Animal Physiology
Ex 31 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 31, Activity 1: Key Terms
2 Pages
Ex 31, Activity 2: Effect of Temperature on Physiological Respiration
2 Pages
Ex 31, Activity 3: Synthesis
2 Pages
Exercise 32: Population Ecology
Ex 32 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 32, Activity 1: Key Terms
4 Pages
Ex 32, Activity 2: Survivorship Curves
2 Pages
Ex 32, Activity 3: Demonstrating Exponential Growth
4 Pages
Ex 32, Activity 4: Calculating Exponential Growth
3 Pages
Ex 32, Activity 5: Everyday Exponential Growth: A More Realistic Example
2 Pages
Ex 32, Activity 6: Comparison of Arithmetic Growth versus Exponential Growth
3 Pages
Ex 32, Activity 7: Carrying Capacity and the Logistic Growth Function
2 Pages
Ex 32, Activity 8: Population Dynamics: The Lotka-Volterra Equation
2 Pages
Ex 32, Activity 9: Synthesis
2 Pages
Exercise 33: Ecological Succession
Ex 33 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 33, Activity 1: Key Terms
3 Pages
Ex 33, Activity 2: Ecological Succession of a Pond
4 Pages
Ex 33, Activity 3: Synthesis
1 Pages
Exercise 34: Biogeochemical Cycles
Ex 34, Part 1 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 34, Part 1, Activity 1: Key Terms
2 Pages
Ex 34, Part 1, Activity 2: Sketch of the Water Cycle
2 Pages
Ex 34, Part 1, Activity 3: Synthesis
1 Pages
Ex 34, Part 2 Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 34, Part 2, Activity 1: Key Terms
3 Pages
Ex 34, Part 2, Activity 2: Sketch of the Nitrogen Cycle
2 Pages
Ex 34, Part 2, Activity 3: Synthesis
2 Pages
Ex 34, Part 3 Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 34, Part 3, Activity 1: Key Terms
3 Pages
Ex 34, Part 3, Activity 2: Sketch of the Carbon Cycle
1 Pages
Ex 34, Part 3, Activity 3: Synthesis
1 Pages
Ex 34, Part 4 Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 34, Part 4, Activity 1: Key Terms
1 Pages
Ex 34, Part 4, Activity 2: Seeing the Big Picture
1 Pages
Ex 34, Part 4, Activity 3: Synthesis
1 Pages
Ex 34, Part 5 Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 34, Part 5, Activity 1: Key Terms
1 Pages
Ex 34, Part 5, Activity 2: Simulation of Ocean Acidification
2 Pages
Ex 34, Part 5, Activity 3: Synthesis
1 Pages
Exercise 35: Ecosystem Ecology: Current Issues in Ecology
Ex 35 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 35, Activity 1: Key Terms
2 Pages
Ex 35, Activity 2: Mapping Environmental Impacts in Your Area
2 Pages
Ex 35, Activity 3: Determining Descriptive versus Normative Science
1 Pages
Ex 35, Activity 4: Investigating Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stability
1 Pages
Ex 35, Activity 5: Synthesis
3 Pages
Exercise 36: Observing Nature
Ex 36 Objectives and Background Info
1 Pages
Ex 36, Activity 1: Key Terms
2 Pages
Ex 36, Activity 2: Making Observations in Nature
2 Pages
Ex 36, Activity 3: Placing Organisms in an Ecological Context
5 Pages
Ex 36, Activity 4: Your Place in Nature
2 Pages
Ex 36, Activity 5: Synthesis
2 Pages
Index
4 Pages

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