Bio II News/ Updates
*Thank you for a great semester! I wish you all the best of luck in your future endeavors. *Check here for Spring 09 Bio II grades - Tuesday and Thursday (both .pdf)
*Listen to Jane Goodall talk about Chimps and evolution on NPR |
Bio II Course Materials
BioII Lab Syllabus
BioII Lab Schedule
Greek and Latin Root Words
BioII Lab Notebook Grading Rubric
Lab Materials (all .pdf or compressed .pdf (.zip) files)
*All labs should be printed out and brought to class*
Week 1: Microscope Tutorial/ Prokaryotes |
Week 7: Water Relations/ Plant Growth | Week 13: No Class |
| Week 2: Protists | Week 8: UCB Botanical Gardens Field Trip | Week 14: Population Ecology/ Case Studies in Ecology |
| Week 3: Fungi | Week 9: Lab Exam #1 | Week 15: Aquarium of the Bay Field Trip |
| Week 4: Martin Luther King Jr. Shorline Park Field Trip (part 1)/ (part 2) | Week 10: Genetic Changes in Populations/ MicroEVO/ MicroEVO Workbook | Week 16: Lab Exam #2 |
| Week 5: Bryophytes and Seedless Vascular Plants Start Plant Growth Lab | Week 11: Macroevolution and Fossils/ Skulls Comparison Lab | |
| Week 6: Gymnosperms/ Angiosperms | Week 12: Cladistics 1/ Cladistics 2/ Cladistics 3/ Cladistics 4 |
Lecture Materials (all .pdf or compressed .pdf (.zip) files)
Week 1: Prokaryotes |
Week 7: Water Relations and Plant Growth | Week 13: No Class |
| Week 2: Protists | Week 8: Field Trip | Week 14: Population Biology & Interspecific Competition.pdf |
| Week 3: Fungi | Week 9: Lab Exam #1 | Week 15: |
| Week 4: Field Trip | Week 10: Genetic Changes in Populations | Week 16: Lab Exam #2 |
| Week 5: Bryophytes and Seedless Vascular Plants | Week 11: Macroevolution and Fossils | |
| Week 6: Gymnosperms and Angiosperms | Week 12: Cladistics.pdf.zip Cladistics.ppt.zip |
Important Links
Instructions for Biological Writing
Using Excel - basic tutorial on how to use Microsoft Excel
Google Docs - free web-based program for word-processing, spreadsheets, graphs, etc. [Note: you must have a (free) Gmail email account to use this]
Create-a-Graph - website that allows you to create graphs - goofy graphics but works fine
