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BIO105K Biological Principles
**** For BIO106K lab, please buy the lab manual at
the bookstore and bring it to lab each time. ****
Instructor: Dr. David Champlin Office: 305D Science Building, Portland
Email: [email protected]
Office Phone: 228-8349
Office Hours: T,W,Th 1:00-2:00; or by appointment
Required Text: Biological Science, 2nd Ed., Scott Freeman, 2004. Prentice-Hall. This book is
used for three courses (105K, 107, and 109).
Course Prerequisites: The only requirements for this introductory course are that you have
completed USM’s minimum proficiency requirements in writing and mathematics.
Class meets: MW 10:15-11:30, room 303 Payson Smith
Attendance is required.
. . . but if I had a penny for every time he said "Ummmmm.. yeah" or
"hmmmmm... right" lets just say I would be rich enough to not be in
his or any classes. His tests are very hard. His lecture is about the
big picture and the tests he expects you to know ever little detail.
Not the best.
Basis For Final Grade:
The maximum number of points for the entire course is 450:
Two quizzes, 10 points each (no make ups for the quizzes)
Three exams, 110 points each
Final exam, 100 points
Grading:
Please let me know anytime if you want to talk about your grade for any reason. Many
students find there is a LOT of material covered in this course. Consequently, there is a good
chance you will work harder in this class for a lower grade compared to your other courses at
USM.
After each exam, the distribution of scores for the class will be shown and letter grades
assigned. Grades will be assigned based on your performance relative to the other students in
the class and relative to the previous times I have taught this course. I attempt to position the
breakpoints between letter grades based on natural clustering of student’s scores rather than
artificially applying ten point intervals between grades. There will almost always be a few A’s,
several B’s, several C’s, and some D’s and F’s. But the numbers of each may vary from class
to class.
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Day Date
1/14
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Subject
To be read prior to this class period:
no class - Snow Day!
Evolution: Unity and Diversity
Chapter 1
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1/21
1/23
no class – Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Water and the Chemical Environment
Chapter 2 (except pp30-35)
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1/28
Quiz #1 on Ch. 1 and parts of Ch. 2 and related lectures/handouts
(no make ups for missed quiz)
Cell Membranes
Chapter 6
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1/30
2/4
Macromolecules
Macromolecules
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2/6
Quiz #2 on Ch. 3 and 6 and related lectures/handouts
(no make ups for missed quiz)
The Cell
Chapter 7
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2/11
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2/25
Bioenergetics
Cell Respiration
no class - Winter Break
no class - Winter Break
EXAM I
Chapter 3 (except pp63-69)
Chapter 9
Chapters 1, 6,7, parts of 2, 3
BLAST! search at NCBI
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
National Center for Biotechnology Information
BLASTing the genome to search for a match with the
human insulin gene gives the following result:
We can BLAST the fruit fly genome with human insulin
and we find an ortholog:
The major hormones that regulate growth in animals are
insulin and insulin-like growth factor (the insulin signaling
system.)
BLASTing the genome to search for a match with the
human insulin gene gives the following result:
When we BLAST the human genome with the insulin gene, we
Find the insulin gene and we also find two other genes that are
very similar to insulin:
Final paralog slide