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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

Campbell Textbook Website

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

UC Berkeley Botanical Gardens

Aquarium of the Bay

 

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