MYP Biology-5th Period Assignments
- Instructor
- Todd Johnson
- Term
- 2023-2024 School Year
- Department
- Science
- Description
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Upcoming Assignments
No upcoming assignments.
Past Assignments
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More Complex Cells and Cellular Differentiation Quizizz
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A&B: Risks and Benefits of Radiation in Medicine
Completely optional, extra-credit assignment. Remember that your grade will not get rounded at the end of the semester.
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A&B: Henrietta's Tumor
A completely optional, extra-credit assignment
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A&B: A new Death Toll for Smoking
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A&B: Treating Cancer with Magnetic Fields
A completely optional, extra-credit assignment
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A&B: In the Developing World, Cancer Is a Very Different Disease
A completely optional. extra-credit assignment
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Unit 7: Cell Cycle and Cancer Quiz
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Edpuzzle - Amoeba Sisters - The Cell Cycle and Cancer 2023
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Cell Cycle and Cancer Quizizz
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Mutagens, oncogenes, and metastasis are involved in the development of primary and secondary tumors notes
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Cell Division and Cancer Reading from Scitable
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CFU: Cancer Genes
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Recognizing Cancer with Mitotic Index
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Mitotic Index Notes
Picture of notes with ID
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Discovery of Cyclins notes
Picture of notes with ID
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Cell Cycle Checkpoints Notes
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CFU: Cell Checkpoints and Cyclins
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Cyclins are involved in the control of the cell cycle notes
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Cell Division Quizizz
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Mitosis in Onion Root Tips Lab Data Collection
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CFU: Cytokinesis
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Cell Cycle Sort Instructions
Please upload a picture of the card when you have them correctly sorted
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CFU: Cell cycle, mitosis, and forms of DNA
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Cytokinesis Notes
Picture with ID
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DNA during the Cell Cycle notes
Only Page 1 of this document. Picture of your notes with school ID
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Mitosis is division of the nucleus into two genetically identical daughter nuclei notes
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CFU: DNA Packaging During the Cell Cycle
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Chromosomes condense by supercoiling during mitosis notes
Please include a picture of your notes that includes your school ID
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Cell Division I from Visionlearning
1. Read the article, answering the Comprehension Checkpoint question as you go.
2. Click on the Quiz link and complete the questions
3. Take a screenshot of your final score and attach it here.
2. Click on the Quiz link and complete the questions
3. Take a screenshot of your final score and attach it here.
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CFU: Cell Cycle
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Interphase is a very active phase of the cell cycle with many processes occurring in the nucleus and cytoplasm notes
Please include a picture of your completed notes that includes your Amundsen ID in it.
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Unit 5: Cell Differentiation Quiz
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Unit 5: Cell Differentiation Quiz
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A&B: The Primitive Streak
A completely optional, extra-credit assignment. Remember that grades are never rounded by Mr. Johnson
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CFU: Cloning
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Natural Cloning notes
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Stem Cell Discussion Submission Form and Rubric
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Ethical Implications of Research Involving Stem Cells is Growing in Importance and Raises Ethical Issues notes
Include a picture of the notes that includes your school ID.
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CFU: Stem Cell Ethics
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Ethics of the Therapeutic Use of Stem Cells
Please include a picture of your notes with your school ID included to ensure you are submitting your own notes
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Onion Propagation Conclusion
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Onion Analysis Part 3 - Graphing
Please make sure that you have answered all of the questions. Think about the graph that you added standard deviation bars to yesterday when making a graph today.
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Onion Analysis Part 2: Measure of Spread
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A&B Pumpkin Carving Contest
This a completely optional, extra credit assignment that hopefully is also fun. The overall winner from all participating classes could walk away with 125 A&B points and possibly some other "stuff" as well. We will be judging during class on Halloween so make sure you understand that the pumpkins must be brought in Halloween morning and taken home that SAME day to receive the A&B points.
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Onion Analysis Part 1: Central Tendency
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Stem Cell Therapies
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CFU: Stem Cells
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Propagating Green Onions Lab
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Stem Cell Notes
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CFU: Cell Differentiation
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Differentiation involves the expressions of some genes and not others in a cell’s genome.
Picture of your notes with a school ID
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Specialized tissues can develop by cell differentiation in multicellular organisms notes
A picture of your notes that includes your school ID
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Semester 1 Midterm Exam
The exam will be curved between classes but retakes are not available for Exams in this class
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Micrograph Analysis Lab
Use the EM Identifications slides to help in your identification of the structures
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A&B: Eukaryote Cell Structure notes
Extra credit assignment (rewriting notes is an excellent way to study)
Take notes in the packet and upload a picture with your ID.
Take notes in the packet and upload a picture with your ID.
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Drawing and Annotation Based on Electron Micrographs
Slides 9-15 only
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Cell Types and Cell Structures Views in Light and Electron Micrographs
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CFU: Animal Cell Structures
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A&B: Classifying Bacteria (This Podcast Will Kill You!)
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Differences in Eukaryotic Cell Structure between Animals, Fungi and Plants notes
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CFU: Plant Cell Structures
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Unit 2: Introduction to Cells and Microcopy Quiz retakes
Remember to use Quiz Makeup/Retake Form on Google Classroom as well as the AHS tutoring Form to schedule a quiz
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A Journey through the Visual Cell
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Eukaryote Cell Structure
Slides for the Flip Book
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Advantages of Compartmentalization in the Cytoplasm of Cells
Picture with ID
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Organelles as Discrete Subunits of Cells that are Adapted to Perform Specific Functions Notes
Picture with ID
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A&B: How we Study Microbes in your Gut
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CFU: Prokaryotes vs. Eukaryotes
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Prokaryotes vs Eukaryotes
Picture with your ID
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Unit 3: Intro to Cells and Microscopy Quizizz
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Unit 3: The Earliest Cells Quiz
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Cell Types and Cell Structures Views in Light and Electron Micrographs Notes
Slides 1-3 only. Picture of the notes with school ID.
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Drawing and Annotation Based on Electron Micrographs
Slides 1-9 only. Picture of your notes with school ID
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Viewing the Size Difference Lab
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Prokaryote Cell Structure
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CFU: Prokaryote Structure
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Unit 2: Introduction to Cells and Microscopy Quiz
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CFU: Microscopy Basics
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A&B: Art and Microscopy
A completely optional, extra-credit assignment. All A&B articles are due before school on the morning of this unit's quiz so the due date posted may change.
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Brush with Nature
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Microscopy Skills Notes
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Developments in Microscopy
Make sure to include a picture of your notes that includes your school ID
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The Big and the Small
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Structures Common to Cells in all Living Organisms Notes
Please include a picture of your school ID in the notes
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Cells are the Smallest Units of Self-Sustaining Life notes
Please post a picture of your notes that includes your school ID clearly displayed
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Cells as the Basic Structural Unit of all Living Organisms
Please upload a picture of your notes that includes your school ID clearly displayed.
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Unit 1 Kahoot!
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Quantifying Variation Analysis
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A&B: The Dark Matter of Life on Earth
Completely optional, extra-credit assignment.
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A&B: Stentor Functions of Life
Completely optional, extra-credit assignment. Mr. Johnson does not round grades at the end of the semester.
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Descriptive Statistics: Measures of spread
Use this Google Doc to complete more of your notes.
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Descriptive Statistics: Central Tendency and skew
Use this document to help you complete the notes in the packet.
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D3.2.1 Box and Whisker Plots
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Quantifying Variation Lab data collection
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CFU: Binomial Nomenclature
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A3.1.1 Variation between organisms as a defining feature of life notes
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Species notes
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A&B: Twenty tips for interpreting scientific claims
This is an Above & Beyond assignment which means it is completely optional and extra credit. All A&B articles like this are always due before the day of that unit quiz whenever that is. Don't worry if you sin't so this one as there other A&B opportunities outlined in the syllabus.
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CFU: Processes of Life
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Processes of Life Notes
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CFU: Levels of Biological Organization
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Levels of Biological Organization notes
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Levels of Biology Wall Art
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Themes of biology notes
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Topic Theme Posters
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