Big Idea: Evolution(進化)
Investigation1: Artificial Selection
(人工選擇和自然選擇及選擇的類型)
Evolution Lab- simulation showing how organisms evolve over time in response to environmental conditions
Natural Selection- another simulation showing wolf and rabbit populations
Sex and Single Guppy- simulation that examines sexual selection
Investigation2: Mathematical Modeling
(哈迪-溫伯格平衡-穩定種群的特征)
Hardy Weinberg Presentation: Count individuals and use the HW equation to determine allele frequencies.
Investigation3: Comparing DNA Sequences to?Understand Evolutionary Relationships with Blast
(進化的證據:DNA序列的對比)
Constructing Cladogram-drawings are used toinfer relationships and create a cladogram.
Big Idea: Cellular Processes
(細胞的運動過程和能量變化過程)
Investigation4:Diffusion and Osmosis
(擴散和滲透)
Diffusion and Osmosis-a modified version of the lab, measure mass change in sucrose dialysis tubes and calculate water potential.
Diffusion Lab-very simple observation lab that shows the movement of iodine through a bag, using cornstarch as an indicator.
Investigation5: Photosynthesis
(光合作用)
Photosynthesis simulation- change light intensity and wavelength and compare the amount of ATP produced.
Investigation6:Cellular respiration
(細胞呼吸作用)
Cellular Respiration- modified AP lab, uses respirometers to measure oxygen consumption.
Big Idea: Genetics and Information Transfer
(細胞遺傳物質的轉移)
Investigation7:Cell Division: Mitosis and Meiosis
(細胞分裂:有絲分裂和減數分裂)
Modeling Chromosomal Inheritance -using beads and pipe cleaners to show how genes are passed from parents to offspring.
Investigation8: Biotechnology: Bacterial Transformation
(生物工程)
Recombinant DNA Simulation - using paper to model how restriction enzymes can be used to modify DNA
Investigation9: Biotechnology: restriction Enzyme Analysis of DNA
DMD Electrophoresis Lab - uses electrophoresis to analyze DNA samples from a family to determine who are carries of duchenne muscular dystrophy
Big Idea: Interactions
Investigation10:Energy Dynamics
(生物的能量流動)
Build an Ecosystem - grown plants and snails in jars and record changes in levelsof CO2 by using BTB as an indicator.
Virtual Lab:Population Biology - observe the competitive exclusion principle in populations of paramecium.
Investigation11: Transpiration
(植物的蒸騰作用)
AP Lab - Transpiration - using seedlings and plastic bags, measure the rate at which water is lost in different conditions.
Investigation12:Fruit Fly Behavior
(遺傳-果蠅實驗)
Isopod Behavior Lab - uses ispods(rollypollys) to investigate animal behavior.
Investigation13:Enzyme Activity
(酶的催化作用)
Enzyme Lab - Using liver and hydrogen peroxide, observe enzyme actions in a variety of conditions (temperature,acidity).

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