The Powerpoint presentations that I use in class are
uploaded each afternoon after class. Sometimes I forget. If
you need to access a presentation, and I have not posted it yet, please
email me.
Depending on
your browser, you may view them on-line or download them and view them
using Powerpoint. Please keep in mind that these figures act as a
jumping off point for teaching and discussing in class, and there may
be information that was discussed in class that did not have an
accompanying figure. Click on the dates to access the
presentation.
A few days before each lecture, I will post the
specific parts of Campbell's "Biology" that I will base the lectures on
and/or the articles that we will look at. I do not promise to
cover everything in these sections, but if you want to read before
lecture, this will give you the areas to focus on. Test material
will come from what is presented in lecture.
Abbreviations: CB = "Biology 7th ed." by
Campbell and
Reece
1/14 Introduction to Class
1/16 Strong Inference (the
Article (as pdf))
1/18 Meiosis: How are
genetically unique offspring produced by sexual reproduction?
1/23 Meiosis
1/24 An experiment looking at
the correlation of stressful environments and genetic diversity plus an
introduction to inheritance
1/28 Inheritance: predicting
the future, multiple genes each coding for a different trait, and
multiple genes coding for one trait
1/30 Nature and Nurture: the
genetic and environmental component of BMI, IQ, and human sexuality
2/1 Inheritance: sex
determination and sex-linked genes
2/4 Inheritance:
non-nuclear DNA and mapping by
recombination (pg 289-290 and concept 15.2)
End of Material for Exam 1
2/8 Introduction to
Evolution: What is it?
2/11 Evolution: Natural
Selection, Memes, and Artificial Selection
2/13 Other forms of
Evolution: Genetic Drift and Bottleneck
2/15 Human Evolution:
Where did H. sapiens
arise? Haplotype
Trees and Modern Human Origins by Alan R. Templeton
in American
Journal of Physical Anthropology
Vol 128, Issue S41 , Pages 33 - 59
2/18 Human Evolution: We
will look at parts of these
articles... Emotion
Drives Attention: Detecting the Snake in the Grass (2001) J. of Ex.
Psy., Vol. 130, No. 3, 466-478; The
Role of Social Groups in the Persistence of Learned Fear (2005) SCIENCE
309 pg 785 Andreas Olsson, Jeffrey P. Ebert, Mahzarin R. Banaji,
Elizabeth A. Phelps (This
perspective accompanies the article and has some useful background and
further discussion); Can race be
erased? Coalitional computation and social categorization (December 18,
2001) PNAS vol. 98 no. 26 pg 15387–15392 Robert Kurzban, John Tooby,
and Leda Cosmides
2/20 Evolution and
Phylogenies
2/22 Introduction to Plant
Physiology
2/25 Plant Evolution:
adaptations of terrestrial plants
2/27 Angiosperm
Reproduction: Why are flowers so advantageous, and how do they
avaoid self-fertilization?
End of Material for Exam #2
3/3 Plant
Transport: Plant Cell Types, Phloem, and Xylem
3/5 Secondary Growth
and Biofuels
3/7 Plants Responses to
the Environment: light, touch, and herbivory
Spring Break...
3/17 Plants Responses to
the Environment: circadian rhythms and flowering
3/19 Plants and Water
Stress plus Genetically Modifying Plants
(CB concept 38.4)
3/21 no class
3/24 Animal Introduction
3/26 The Nervous
System: How neurons function?
3/28 The Nervous System
and Muscle Contraction: How sensing, integration, and response
work together.
3/31 The Immune System
End of Material for Exam #3
4/4 Nutrition and
Digestion
4/7 Digestion and
Circulation
4/9 Respiration and
Sexual Dimorphisms
4/11 Animal Physiology and
Ecology
(Grizzly Bears)
4/14 Introduction to
Ecology
4/16 Carrying Capacity Case
Study: Wolves in Yellowstone NP
(Yellowstone
Science Vol. 13:1)
4/18 Biodiversity
4/21 Succession and
Chernobyl
End of Material for Exam #4
4/25 Global Climate
Change
4/28 Restoring Areas
Affected by Global Climate Change and the Relationship between Food
Choices and Global Conflicts- Darfur
4/30 Restoration Ecology-
waterways
5/2 Emergence
End of Semester