Circulate the Following Info

Attendance is in decline and so all of my classes can expect an ATTENDANCE QUIZ. The marks are equivalent to TEST marks and are scored PROMPTLY at the bell.

The homework for BI12 for Wednesday February 27: PLO J #7-12, PLO K #1-6
The homework for BI12 for Friday February 29: Biology 12 Assignment (in your booklets) and the "Identify and describe differences in structure and circulation between fetal and adult circulatory systems" question (also in your booklet, hand printed, bottom of the page. You have a sub, work well please!

And the link at the bottom of the previous page should've read "click on the inner life of the cell: view the animation".

Circulatory System

Circulatory System TEST - Thursday March 6

New Homework: Outline P.L.O. J "CIRCULATORY SYSTEM: CIRCULATION AND BLOOD" #1-6 (due Wednesday February 27)

FIELD TRIP - Grand Success! Very impressed with our 16 ladies. Fun AND informative, and a big shout-out to Professor Cornell and her associates (please read the following email from SFU to Mr Moore) for all their hard work AND ordering the pizza :)

"Hello Mr. Moore,

This morning a group of 16 John Oliver Biology 12 students,
supervised by Carl Sommerfeld, visited the department of Molecular
Biology and Biochemistry at Simon Fraser University for a series of
presentations and demonstrations. They looked into an electron
microscope to see the bacterium that causes cholera and learned about
how PhD student Juliana Li is determining the structural composition
of bacterial pili that the bacteria use to make themselves more
virulent. They observed the set-up that PhD student Nadine Wicks is
using to measure the flow of current through ion channels from
cardiac cells that had been "transplanted" into frog eggs. They
observed how a noisy sonicator transforms lipid suspensions into real
biological membranes.
We (Nadine, Juliana, and I) were so impressed with your
students. They were engaged, asking amazingly insightful questions,
providing correct answers to our questions, murmuring with delight
when they were impressed with what they heard and saw. They were
quiet and respectful. And they were very impressed with the cost of
the electron microscope ($2,000,000). Mr. Sommerfeld is wondering if
the PAC at JO could fund-raise for one of these toys. You could put
it on your wish-list at any rate.
In seriousness, please commend the students and Carl for undertaking
this field-trip. We enjoyed having them!"

-Dr Rosemary Cornell, Juliana Li, and Nadine Wicks

The following links are excellent for animating Cell Parts and Functions!
http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/
then click on .

Eve of Digestion

Here are some details about the test:
71 multiple choice (know about secretin and read up on teeth, including periodontitis, and obesity, and other general nutrition facts at the end of chapter 12)
2 Long Answer questions: basic questions that total 5 marks all together
Matching Section: A diagram of the digestive system asking where some things are made and what other things are, very much like the game review we did Friday

Congratulations to everyone who handed in a Bonus Project: They will be marked by March 7th - please give me some space until then :)

TEST DATE for Digestion

Bi 12's NEW HOMEWORK: There is none. Study for your test, Tuesday Feb 19th.

Fieldtrippers: bring 15 bucks, 10 for busfare and 5 for pizza. Bring change please.

Bi 11's, check out this weblink for the next section we'll be studying, on unsegmented worms and their associated diseases! Elephantiasis is wild.

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/n/c/ncj111/Human%20Impact.htm

Midterm Aftermath

Hello All.

New Homework: Do all of Section I in your Course Outline.
Homework Due: Monday, February 11th, worth 10 marks.

It looks like the test date will be Tuesday February 19th.

Field Trip: Trying for Friday, all day, February 22. That's a Day 1.

Midterm discrepancies: See me Thursday at lunch to discuss outstanding issues.

Midterm averages: Block G/50.2% Block H/54.9% Block F/64.9%