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Course Objectives
The course objectives are divided into specific learning objectives that will be summarized at the beginning of lectures. In order to successfully complete BIOL 121, you should be able to: 1) Describe and provide examples of how organisms interact with each other, their environment and the evolutionary processes underlying these interactions and the outcomes of these interactions.
2) You can describe how Mendels principles of segregation and independent assortment are a consequence of chromosome movement in meiosis 3) You should be able to describe how evolutionary mechanisms act at the level of populations and species, and how macroevolutionary patterns above the species level are the result of these microevolutionary mechanisms as well as chance events. 4) Explain and describe the central role of the theory of evolution in the study of biology and interpret a phylogenetic tree. Freeman, Harrington and Sharp (2011) Biological Science Canadian Edition1. (Many, but not all, of the same readings appear in the 2nd & 3rd Editions, but the page numbers are different and so their use is left up to the student) Pechenik, A Short Guide to Writing About Biology 8th Edition.
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Mastering Biology is an online textbook resource comprising activities, learning modules quizzes and answers to text questions. The purpose of mastering biology activities is to supplement the lecture and text by providing a forum for you to further practice and study difficult topics and practice skills that will be required for class participation and examinations. There will be mastering biology assignments associated with lectures. You have the option of making the Mastering Biology activities part of your course grade (Grading Scheme II). Information on accessing mastering biology is available on the course vista site.
Copies of the text are available for short-term use in the Biology Reading Room, beside the Biology Office (BioSci 2521).
Mastering Biology Quizzes are to test your basic knowledge and basic ability to apply concepts from the readings. Most of these questions are below the level that you would encounter on an exam. These questions are meant to re-enforce material covered in the text and to encourage you to keep up with readings. Only the most challenging of quiz questions (perhaps 1 per quiz) are at a level that would appear on an exam. You can work on quiz questions either individually or collaboratively with other students.. There are no re-writes on missed quizzes but the lowest quiz mark will be dropped. You have the option of making the Mastering Biology activities part of your course grade (Grading Scheme II). Assignment or Outreach Project There will be one written assignment during the course of the semester requiring you to evaluate science in the news. There will be both group and independent components to the assignment. The complete details of the assignment will be posted on the course Connect site during the semester. As an alternative to the written assignment you can choose to participate in a Community Service Learning project that will take place over reading week. Interested students will be chosen based on a lottery system. If you choose and are selected to participate in the Community Service Learning project, your grade for the project will take the place of the grade for the written assignment.
Class Participation
I expect you to be on time and attend all lectures. Participation will be evaluated through the use of clicker questions in most lectures (see iClickers section below). For other issues with regard to Academic Regulations, please refer to the UBC Calendar, Chapter V, Student Conduct and Discipline.
iClickers (aka Personal Response Systems): The reason I use clickers is to encourage attendance, active involvement and learning in lecture, and give you a check to see if you understand the material. Participation in a question will count for one mark; correctly answering a question will give you an additional mark. All of the clicker marks for the semester will combine to be worth 5% of your final mark. You can miss up to two classes worth of clicker questions without an effect on your final mark.
You are responsible for registering your clicker on the connect website. You can visit the bookstore, Chapman Learning Commons or me to get the clicker number if it has rubbed off.
Jan 8, Jan 10
Concept Inventory Experimental Design Introduction to Ecology: Abiotic component of ecosystems, Biomes, Biogeography
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Population Characteristics, Demography & Dynamics Species Interactions and Community Structure
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Community Structure, Ecosystems, Biodiversity and Conservation ************ MIDTERM 1 ECOLOGY ************
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Topic(s) DNA, Biological Information Flow, Cell Cycle and Cell Division, Transferring genetic information, mutation Asexual and Sexual Reproduction Meiosis Mendelian genetics and Linkage Midterm Break No Classes Extending Mendels rules Problem solving. Pedigree analysis Charles Darwin: Theory of evolution & Evidence for evolution MIDTERM 2 GENETICS Natural Selection, Artificial selection Natural Selection, Artificial selection and Sexual Selection Population Genetics & Evolutionary Processes Population Genetics & Evolutionary Processes Speciation Speciation Phylogenetics History of Life
Text Readings Chapter 14 (Key Concepts) Chapter 15 (Intro. 15.1 & 15.2) Chapter 11 (Intro. 11.1) Ch. 1 (1.1), Ch. 11 (11.2, 11.3, 11.4) Ch. 14 (14.1, 14.2) Chapter 16 (16.6) Ch. 12 All Ch. 40 (Figure 40.2b) Ch. 13 (All) Bioskills 9 (B-17) Combining Probabilities Ch. 13 (All) Ch. 24
Ch. 1 (1.2) Ch. 24 (24.3, 24.4, 24.5) Ch. 1 (1.2) Ch. 24 (24.3, 24.4, 24.5) Ch. 24 (24.4, 24.5) Ch. 25 (Intro. 25.1, 25.2) Bioskills 9 (B-17) Combining Probabilities **** Science in the Media Group Assignment Due Mar 22nd **** Ch. 25 (25.3, 25.4, 25.5, 25.6) Ch. 27 (Intro. 26.1, 26.2, 26.3, 26.4) Ch. 27 (Intro. 26.1, 26.2, 26.3, 26.4) Ch 27 All Bioskills 2 (B-3 to B5) Reading a Phylogenetic Tree
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