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Biology-Biomedical 1-2 (Biotechnology) is a course designed as a first year biology course; which incorporates the use of basic biotechnology within each unit. In this course students will:
• Identify the characteristics that are typical of all life.
• Practice scientific literacy including reading scientific articles; describing data from experiments; and writing informative and argumentative essays.
• Apply inquiry-based approach to understanding biological processes
• Illustrate the relevance of biology to contemporary issues
• Identify characteristics that both unify and differentiate all living organisms on our planet.
• Learn the basic principles of the cell; (organization; structure; function and utilization of energy).
• Discover what genes are and how they function; specifically; the molecular basis of heredity.
• Understand the molecular mechanisms behind disease and how technological advances in medicine can treat them.
• Examine natural selection and what particular changes in genes may cause organisms to evolve.
• Examine the relationship between the living and non-living world.
• Discuss the impact the living and non-living world have on each other.
• Analyze population dynamics and how humans impact their environment everyday with special emphasis placed on the environmental issues that face our world today.
• Examine how organisms are grouped (six kingdoms) for study.
• Students will learn about: biochemistry; plant and animal cells and environmental studies during the first semester.
• Students will learn about: molecular biology (DNA and protein synthesis); heredity; evolution and taxonomy during the second semester.

Course Outline

The Science of Biology
The Chemistry of Life
Cell Structure and Function
Photosynthesis
Cellular Respiration
Cell Growth and Division
Introduction to Genetics
DNA; RNA & Protein Synthesis
Genetic Engineering
The Human Genome
Darwin's Theory of Evolution
Evolution of Populations
The History of Life
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Grading Policy
This grading policy allows everyone to be successful. All work is important! Students’ grades will be determined as follows:

30% Assessments (Quizzes; Chapter Tests; etc.)
20% Laboratory Investigations/Participation
30% Assignments
20% Final Semester Exam (Fall/Spring)

A-100-90
B-89-80
C-79-70
D-69-60
F-59-0

Labs:

• Mystery Volume
• Paper Airplane Team Building Activity
• Introduction to Microscopes
• How is Surface Tension Affected by Soap
• Can Your Procedure Be Replicated
• Human Cheek Cell
• Animal/Plant Cell Models
• Diffusion
• Egg Osmosis
• Mitosis Flip Book
• pH Challenge
• Toothpickase
• Catalase
• Biome Bottle
• Photsynthesis.Cell Respiration Bromo Thymol Blue Test
• Oh Dee! Population Study
• Strawberry DNA Extraction
• Gel Electrophoresis Dye Lab
• Gel Electrophoresis Whale Paternity Lab
• Investigating Inherited Traits
• Edible DNA
• Modeling Meiosis
• Darwin’s Finches
• Adaptation of the Human Hand
• Modeling Adaptations
• Pterosaur Reconstruction
• Norns Dichotomous Keys
• Observation of Live Earthworms
• Eathworm/Grasshopper/Perch/Frog/Rat Dissections

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Approved

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• LBIO
• Biology

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Online / Virtual