BSC 1010 - Principles of Biology

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Study Guide for Test 1

1. Physicist Richard Feynman explains the scientific method
2. Essential Biology disscusses some of the properties of life
3. taxonomy
4. Archea, Bacteria, Protista

1. textbook animations: Types of Bonds, Salts Dissolving in Water, Acids, Bases and pH, peptide bonds, protein structure
2. Covalent Bonds, Ionic Bonds, Carbon
3. Properties of Water
4. Biological molecules - lipids, proteins, carbohydrates
5. Nucleic Acids (DNA and RNA)
6. This video explains how proteins denature, and shows their primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary structure

1. Animal Cells
2. plant cells
3. ABC/Krulwich on Cells
4. Paul Anderson gives a tour of the cell
5. Mary Poffenroth explains cell theory, animal vs. plant cells, mitochondria, ribosomes, cytoskeleton, plasma membrane, , lysosomes, nucleus,
6. textbook animation: vessicle budding and organelle endosymbiosis
7. this is the actual harvard animation that krulwich was talking about
8. Krulwich discusses frog legs and dancing squid

1. textbook animations: Active and Passive transport, Exocytosis and Endocytosis, Signaling Molecules
2. Mary Poffenroth discusses membranes and the difference betweendiffusion and osmosis
3. Hank Green discusses membranes, diffusion, and transport
4. Japanese Subway
5. less exciting, but more nicely illustrated video on the plasma membrane
6. another video on active and passive transport
7. Biology Essentials - membranes an DNA extraction
8. the Ricochet Science videos on diffusion, Tonicity/Osmosis

Study Guide for Test 2

1. textbook animations: photosynthesis and cellular respiration
2. Hank Green explains ATP and respiration
3. Mary Poffenroth gives a brief overview of mitochondria
4. nice Gradients and ATP animation
5. Hank Green explains photosynthesis
6. very detailed (like bio majors detailed) photosynthesis song
7. Paul Anderson explains photosynthesis
8. paper chromatography and RF values (like we use in the photosynthesis lab)

1. Textbook animation: Enzyme catalysis
2. Mary Poffenroth gives a light overview of enzymes
3. Biology essentials: Paul Anderson explains Enzymes
4. learn about enzyme inhibition using Linkin Park and HALO
5. another Competative and allosteric inhibitor video (without the annoying mallcore music)
6. How HIV uses enzymes, and how we can inhibit those enzymes
7. an annoying overly cute enzyme video good info, but she sounds like she thinks her listeners are third graders
8. How temperature and pH affect enzyme activity

1. textbook animations: Cell Cycle, Mitosis and Cell Division, Meiosis
2. Hank Green on Mitosis and Meiosis
3. Paul Andersen explains cell cycle, mitosis and meiosis and illustrates it by using beads
4. Stages of Mitosis(Lady Gaga Parody)
5. the Ricochet Science videos on mitosis, meiosis, spermatogenesis, and oogenesis

Study Guide for Test 3

1. Mary Poffenroth explains Punnett Squares
2. Paul Anderson explains Punnett Squares
3. Brightstorm videos on genotype, phenotype, allele, gene expression, incomplete dominance and Punnett Squares
4. khanacademy discusses Punnette Squares

1. Heredity
2. How to solve genetics problems
3. Interactive Genetics Problems
4. Interactive DNA puzzles
5. Epigenetics: Nova special(1 hour long)
6. more on epigenetics

1. a good description of the structure of DNA
2. DNA
3. DNA transcription and translation

1. DNA
2. DNA transcription and translation

1. Hank Green explains natural selection, speciation, population genetics, Evolution, and evolutionary development,
2. Paul Anderson has two videos on the evidence for evolution, and also ones on Natural Selection, microevolution, and solving Hardy Weinberg problems
3. Mary Poffenroth discusses Charles Darwin and natural selection
4. Ricochet Science has a Natural Selection video
5. Russian fox breeding experiment
6. "vampire" finch (sharp beaked ground finch)
7. Woodpecker Finch
8. multiple videos of the great grey shrike feeding
9. anoles jumping

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2. Mary Poffenroth explains Trophic Levels

Other Topics

1. Human Population
2. DNA structure and replication
3. Transcription and Translation
4. Nova Science Now's RNAi video (The first part covers transcription and translation)
5. Human Genome Project: James Kent saves the day!!!(Why Craig Venter is a jerk.)
6. Epigenetics: Nova special(1 hour long)
7. Natural Selection
8. Speciation