Biology
Syllabus
Syllabus
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Genetics
100
Biology is the study of this, it's kind of important.
What is life?
100
Elise and Zach are TAs for this section number.
What is 5!
100
This is the topic for Wednesday's lab.
What is scientific communication and writing assignments?
100
Alex Trebek is the host of this show.
What is Jeopardy?
100
This word describes the way DNA replicates in living cells.
What is semiconservative?
200
This is the biggest artery in the human body.
What is the Aorta?
200
This is the score reduction on an assignment <24 hours past due.
What is 25%?
200
This is the topic for Monday's Lab
What is Experiments?
200
This is time Jeopardy is on every week day.
7:30 EST.
200
This phrase represents the two step process by which information in genes become proteins. DNA --> RNA --> Protein
What is the Central Dogma?
300
This is the most common element in the human body.
What is Oxygen? Oxygen is the most common element in the human body, making up almost 63% of the average human, followed by carbon (19.37%), hydrogen (9.31%), and nitrogen (5.14%)
300
This is the score reduction on an assignment 24-48 hours past due.
What is 50%?
300
This is due before Wednesday.
What is Submitting writing or oral communication assignment.
300
What is Caffeine?
300
DNA is made up of these two types of nitrogenous bases
What are purines and pyrimidines?
400
This is the largest organ in the human body.
What is the Skin!
400
This is the score reduction on an assignment past 48 hours due.
What is 100?
400
This is due every Friday.
What is your reflection comment?
400
This the heaviest chemical element on the periodic table that has a one-letter abbreviation.
What is Uranium?
400
This is number basepairs in a single loop of the double helix
What is 10.5 basepairs?
500
These are the two types of protein secondary structure.
What are alpha helices and beta sheets?
500
This is worth most of your grade in General Biology Laboratory.
What are writing assignments?
Writing assignments - 25%
Presentation assignments - 20%
Participation - 10%
Prelabs/Perusal Comments - 10%
Postlabs - 20%
Quizzes - 5%
Reflections - 5%
Video Questionnaires - 5%
500
This is due before class on Monday.
What is.....
1. Prelab
2. Your perusal comment
3. Comment on peer's comment
4. Prior weeks postlab
5. Dr. P's Lecture videos
6. Dr. M's and Mrs. C's experimental videos
......don't save it all for Sunday...
500
This country consumes the most chocolate per capita.
What is Switzerland?
500
A diagram that depicts a human's genetic information with chromosome pairs is called this.
What is a karyotype?