Schedule

Lecture Topics

Text Chapters

Week 1

Introduction

1

Populations

27

Week 2

Communities

29

Ecosystems

30

TEST 1

Week 3

Biosphere

31

Human Impact

32

Week 4

Basic Chemistry

2

Biomolecules

3

Cells

4

TEST 2

Week 5

Cells- how things get in

p 80, 5.5 -5.9

Biochemical Reactions

5.1 -5.5

Week 6

Photosynthesis

6

Respiration

7

TEST 3

Week 7

Mitosis

8

Meiosis

9

Cancer

p212-213, 14.4

Week 8

Mendelian Genetics 1

10.1 -10.3

Mendelian Genetics 2

10.4 -10.8

TEST 4

Week 9

Chromosomes

11.1-11.4, 11.8-11.10

Human Genetics

11.6

Week 10

DNA

12, 13

Genetic engineering

p222-223, 15.6 -15.10

DNA technology

15.2 -15.5

TEST 5

Week 11

Evolution 1

16.1 -16.4, 16.6 -16.11, 18.1, 18.4-18.6

Week 12

Evolution 2

17, 19.7

TEST 6

Week 13

History of Life

18.2-18.3, 19.1-19.6, 19.8

Viruses

20.4 -20.5

Bacteria

20.1 -20.3

Week 14

Protists

20.6 -20.14

Plants

22

Fungi

21

TEST 7

 Week 15

Animals 1-3

23.1 -23.15

 Week 16

Animals 4

23.16

Chordates

24.1 -24.2

Vertebrates

24.3-24.9

TEST 8, optional FINAL EXAM