Detailed Checklist for your Biomolecules test, 65 marks. Updated

1.  Know your illustration handouts: There will be 50 questions, multiple choice, short answer, or matching on these  booklets of drawing handouts.

     a. Examples of Biomolecules, Polymers are made of monomers, hydrolosysis and dehdydration
         synthesis, Water in, Water out, Biology Karaoke lyrics

     b. BONDS in biology - ionic, covalent, polar covalent, nonpolar covalent,
          name 7 properies of water,    
         Organic always contains CHO, Functional Groups (recognize all functional groups,
         Writing organic chemistry, drawing a glucose
         molecule

     c.  Carbohydrates: Monosaccharides, Disaccharides and Polysaccharides

     d.  Fat Facts: Be prepared to draw all parts of this illustrated booklet!  NOTE THAT THE DEFINITION OF SATURATED AND UNSATURATED TRIGLYCERIDES DIFFER FROM THE RAYCROFT NOTES.  Use the fact facts sheet as the definitive answer!!!

     e.  DNA is made of nucleotide letters, DNA structure:
         Be prepared to draw the ladder structure of DNA

2.  Review worksheets.  Be very familiar with all the answers of the  questions on the following worksheets:  They contain details from the illustrations above. The same 50 questions  mentioned above will be referencing these handouts.
      Fats,Carbohydrates and Nucleic acids. For the key, see the keywords and illustrations in
     the Biomolecule Summary Notes.  see note on fats above.

3.  In the Text be able to draw p. 54 and 55.

4.  Know the story of Watson Crick and Franklin.  There will be two questions on the discovery of DNA.
5.  There will be 15 marks on the labs and demos we did: You must choose ONLY three of the following four topics to write a paragraph about in detail
      a.  The Dry ice lab:  Summarize your observations during this lab.  What happens when you add solid carbon dioxide to water?  What acid is formed when Carbon dioxide is added to water?  
      b.  Drinking Milk: Lactose free milk is sweeter than regular milk.  Explain this demo in detail. 
      c.   Dropping food colouring in milk, and then adding soap, creates beautiful designs. 
     Describe what happens and explain how using your knowledge of polar and nonpolar interactions, 
     especially with soap.
      d.   You attended the Don Rix Distinguished Lecture or the DNA Fingerprint Lab.  
            Write a little summary of what you learned from these experiences.  I understand the science
      involved is university level thus I only need a description of your highlights of what you gathered 
      from these experiences rather than the university level vocab words. 
       e.  During the dry ice lab, an equation was written.  This equation was an equilibrium equation describing the carbonic acid buffer.  Describe how this equilibrium equation helps the body maintain homeostasis. 
6.  REVIEW SONGS: Know the lyrics of your songs especially a. and b.  and know what c. and d. are about.    
     a. DNA Replication Song
     b.  Water In and Water Out LYRICS from section 1a. above. sung to "Waterloo"
     c.   Take me to the Liver (a song about high density lipoprotein and their role to move 
          cholesterol back to the liver.) lyrics and mp3
     d.   Glucose song   
     

Poll for date of Biochemistry Test.

Fill out the poll here.  Bring completed worksheets on Carbohydrates, Fats, Nucleic acids next block.

Answers to worksheets in the Biomolecule summary notes

Today I'm actually here for half day (afternoon). I've just recovered from bronchitis.  Thanks for your patience.  Last period, you were given a worksheet on Fats, Carbohydrates and Nucleic acids. For the key, see the keywords in the Biomolecule Summary Notes.  The worksheet answers are in the sections starting on page 8. 
HW: Review the chapter and read the section on protein. Proteins and Acid/Base review will be our last topics before a comprehensive review and test coming up.  Our final lab will be on Potions, biological potions made from the buffer carbonic acid

Review DNA, RNA and ATP and do Worksheet

We'll review the lesson on DNA, RNA and ATP and you'll be doing this worksheet for homework.

Insight into the race for the Nobel Prize

This Guardian Article goes into detail about the story of the discovery of DNA.  Apparently, Franklin arrived at many of the same conclusions as Watson and Crick and while the latter duo did not technically "steal" data, (her data was available if they'd asked her directly) they did use Franklin's data in a "cavalier manner" and without proper credit.  Apparently, they would have arrived at the x-ray data earlier, had Watson bothered to pay attention during a Franklin lecture:

R. Franklin, photo from The Guardian

DNA RNA and ATP notes today

story of the discovery of DNA:  From Avery's awesome zombie apocalypse strep experiment to Watson and Crick's brilliant model making.  And don't forget Ms. Rosalind Franklin, who's groundbreaking work on X-ray diffraction on DNA crystals helped Watson and Crick crack the code.

The presentation notes today are here .  It has many details on the three kinds of nucleic acids: DNA, RNA and ATP.  We covered up to the end of DNA and will continue with the other part next day.
FYI , another summary of the discovery of DNA can be found in this link from the Nobel Prize website.

And, for those keeners amongst you, here is the ORIGINAL PAPER from "Nature".  It's super short and quite readable for a groundbreaking scientific paper that revolutionized our ideas of reproduction. They do have a small mention of Wilkin and Franklin along with other researchers at the very end of their paper.

Page 54 and 55. Know the diagrams and charts on these pages

Our lessons so far:

we are getting to the end of the unit.  So review chapter 2
bonds
water properties
Carbohydrates
Lipids
Nucleotides

and Chapter 4.2
DNA Replication

We still need to cover
Chapter 2 Proteins and amino acids