Sept 8 to 16, 2025 : Biomolecules.

 lecture on biomolecules here:  Please review the notes on Carbohydrates and Proteins

Biomolecules Notes  

And here are some summary notes reviewing the same content describing the monomers and polymers that can form through dehydration synthesis and hydrolysis . your teacher will review these concepts over a few days

Biomolecules Summary Notes     

After reading these notes, work on this worksheet on biomolecules . The answers to these questions begin on page 8 of the Biomoledules Summary Notes in the chapter called  BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL COMPOUNDS

We will spend a few days on this important topic and then you will get a test. 

At the end of this unit you can do these review questions .  Our test will include these questions

Review Questions and Their Answers 

in addition, i mentioned in class that you ought to be able to

1. draw each kind of monomer: an amino acid, a monosaccharide, a nucleotide.  Draw an example of an amino acid (glutamate)

2. draw the hydrolysis and dehydration synthesis of monomers , like amino acids making a peptide bond

3.  identify different kinds of biomolecules if you see them 

Memory tricks to remember hydrolysis and dehydration synthesis.  I gave you new lyrics for this abba song. 

Anatomy and Physiology 12: September 3 lesson: Introduction to Biology : Dead or Alive?

 Introductory class  activity: DEAD OR ALIVE

Welcome to Anatomy and Physiology class!  I am away for the first week of school due to a medical issue.  I look forward to seeing you next week.  For your first assignment, I would like you to go outside and find the following objects  Draw them and answer the following questions.  There are no wrong answers for this assignment!  

1.  Find something dead.  How do you know it is dead? 

2.  find something alive.  What is it about this object that makes it alive?

3.  Find something that has never, ever been alive.  What characteristics does this object have that tells you that it is neither dead nor alive?

4. Find something that is not alive, but an important PART of something alive.  Explain your answer

5. What is something that is not alive but a living thing depends upon it to survive? 

6.  Look at your responses and ask yourself:  What are the criteria of being alive? 

7.  Discuss the criteria of living things as a class discussion. Listen to your classmate's responses and summarize them. 

Your teacher will collect your assignments and give you 10 marks for each of your responses.  

Your teacher will make a class roster and assign a mark for all completed responses.

Sept 4 lesson : CELL ORGANELLE REVIEW: parts of a Eukaryotic cell

CELL ORGANELLES  a brief summary    Your teacher will review this summary of the cell.

Watch this video to find out how a VIRUS exploits the cell organelles to hijack the cell and turn it into a virus factory.  

Group Assignment: Build a cell out of lego

There is LEGO in the cupboards under the windows.  Take out this lego and build a cell with all its organelles.  Label the cell and take a photograph of it. You may work in a group of 2 or 3. 

Your teacher will give you a mark out of 5 for your work on this assignment. 

Individual Assignment : Create Study Notes on Cell Organelles and Viruses

Make one page study notes on the following topics

1.  Cell organelles 

2.  How does a virus invade a cell. 

Your teacher will give you a mark out of 10 for this assignment. 

September 5 lesson: Eu are a Eukaryote!!! CELL STRUCTURES AND FUNCTION

REVIEW the powerpoint  CELL STRUCTURES.   Please note a typo on slide 3:

Cells have METABOLISM

• METABOLISM is the sum of ALL CHEMICAL REACTIONS THAT HAPPEN

INSIDE A CELL

• THESE REACTIONS MUST HAPPEN IN AN AQUEOUS ENVIRONMENT.

a more detailed reading of the cell structures are in the following summary notes 

CELL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION  

Complete the  CELL REVIEW WORKSHEET for an in-class activity and finish the rest for homework. There will be a QUIZ ON THIS WORKSHEET coming up soon! 

In class, we will spend time getting an overview reviewing the primary function of a Eukaryotic Cell and then there will be time for you to read about the functions of each organelle and how they relate to that primary function.  You will make study notes.

Study Questions (these questions will appear on a future quiz)

1.  What is the Central Dogma?

2.  Explain the primary function of these cell organelles:
a. the cell membrane
b.  the nucleus
c.  the ribosome
d. DNA
e. RNA
f. cytoskeleton
g. Endoplasmic Reticulum

h. Golgi complex

3.  write a small paragraph giving your own cell analogy.



labs coming up next week:
1. Osmosis and diffusion 
2. Microscopy skills.  Making a wet mount and preparing a plant specimen.  Prep for our lab.

Here is a video which COMPARES 2 types of cells

Make Study Notes on Meiosis and Mitosis

 I gave you a booklet which illustrates mitosis and meiosis.  Please do the following to review the steps.

First, watch the mitosis and meiosis sections of my lesson video. Watch from 5 min and 50 seconds! 

1. Next, WRITE what happens in each step in PEN.   10 marks

2. DRAW the spindlefibres and the centrioles in the correct spot  in each step.10 marks

3. COLOUR the strands of DNA and make the colours consistent throughout the booklet. 10 marks

4. LABEL the section on nondisjunction.  5 marks

5. On the last page, DRAW and label the following on the LAST PAGE 5 marks

a. Chromatin

b. chromatid

c. sister chromatids

d. Chromosome

e. Homologous chromosomes 

EVALUATION

18-20. You completed everything in the questions above and it is in PEN, neatly done, clear and colour coded. You used pen, or you typed it up and printed it, pasting the paper on your sheet.

15-17 You completed everything but it is difficult to read what you did, it is in pencil

5-10  It is a good start but not complete

An introduction to Genetics

 Watch the introduction to Genetics video and make notes on it. You may use the notes organizer I provided in class called "The analogy of shoes". Please make a correction on the student notes.  Where it says "boy" cross it out and put XY .  Where it says girl, cross that out and put XX.  These are chromosomes for individuals. Note that XY individuals have testes which produce sperm and XX individuals have ovaries which produce eggs.  

The term "boy" and "girl" refers to gender identity and this identity can be for an individual who has XX or XY chromosomes.  

DNA REPLICATION