Welcome to AP Biology! Please take out your agendas. Agenda: 1. Introductions 2. Syllabus

1. Welcome to AP Biology! Please take out your agendas. Agenda: 1. Introductions 2. Syllabus 3. Wikispace 4. Procedures 5. Determining Rules Objective: set the tone of the class for the year HW:

2. About Mrs. Nash Victor High School Syracuse University University of Rochester Mom to Kaely who will be 2 on 9.11 Wife to Dan (married on 7.7.07 in Vegas!) Teacher Taught at Mercy since Feb '07 Love pizza, boy bands (*NSYNC and BSB), Twilight, SYTYCD

4. Course Info Sheets: Go over important points now. Read these over again tonight with a parent/guardian.

5. Forget Facebook, Tata Twitter... Our Wikispace... It will be your best friend this year.

6. Procedures: 1. Enter the room and look at the Smart Board 2. Follow the directions on the Smart Board and write any homework in your agenda 3. Be ready to go when the bell rings 4. "Good Morning/Afternoon Ladies"... followed by our inspirational message. 5. Go over agenda, objective(s) and homework 6. Start class :) 7. Exit Tickets Things in the room: you may use anything in the room as long as it is not on the front lab table. Never touch the Smart Board or my laptop unless I tell you to. Birthday Calendar* Lab Notebooks Supplies Lab Stations Plants Supply Table Homework: Always due when class starts! If not, it is late! It always goes in the bin with your class number on it. Absent?: Right now, find a homework/note buddy to be responsible for your work when you are absent. If you know you'll be out, see me first. See me as soon as you get back in school too. Lost papers: I always bring a cart with past handouts. If can't find something, ask me BEFORE class starts

7. Rules for the year: We will work together as a class to establish rules we will follow all year. This is your classroom as much as it is mine. I want to create a safe learning environment where everyone is comfortable enough to make mistakes and have fun learning. If you do not follow the rules, you will be reminded of the rule(s) you are breaking and possibly have consequences.

8. Unifying Themes 1. The cell 2. Heritable Information 3. Hierarchical order - systems 4. Regulation 5. Interaction with environment 6. Energy and life 7. Unity and diversity 8. Evolution 9. Structure and Function 10. Scientific Inquiry 11. Science, technology and society

10. "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts"

11. Energy conversion Materials cycling

12. Eukaryotic Prokaryotic

13. Structure & Function of DNA

14. Reductionism

15. Systems Biology Goal: model the dynamic behavior of whole biological systems 1. list all parts 2. how parts interact 3. pool data ·High throughput technology ·Bioinformatics ·Interdisciplinary research teams

20. "Life's dual nature of unity and diversity"

21. Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection Observations: 1. Individual variation 2. Overproduction and competition Inferences: 1. Unequal reproductive success 2. Evolutionary adaptation

23. Discovery science - describing natural structures and processes through careful observation and analysis of data Hypothesis - based science - explanations to observations made in discovery science and makes predictions

24. Quantitative - quantities, measurements Qualitative - recorded descriptions ex: Jane Goodall & chimps

25. Inductive - deriving generalizations based on a large number of specific observations - reasoning from a set of specific observations to reach a general conclusion Deductive - a general conclusion down to the specific results we should expect if the premises are true

26. Hypotheses:

27. Controlled Experiment: 1. 1 Independent variable 2. A control 3. Controlling the experiment Goal: test only one variable

28. Everyday theory: not tested, just a guess Scientific theory: tested and well supported by research not a hypothesis general enough to generate new hypotheses can be rejected or modified

29. Social and cultural influences:

30. Science and Technology: