The work for biology class in case you missed the email


Week One

Using the website post that I created (link below):​

https://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/welcome-to-biology-2020 

Please answer the following questions by writing at least three complete sentences for each of you answers:

  1. What is the color spectrum?
  2. What are sound waves?
  3. How has less human activity during the COVID-19 closures changed things for plants, animals, and the environment, and what can we learn from this?
  4. What are three examples of light or sound frequencies that we encounter every day?


Week Two

This week in biology we will learn about the characteristics of life and the main molecules that we see in living beings.
Humans have been searching for life on Mars for decades, what are the signs of life that they are looking for?

Please look at the web site post for this week:


https://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/process-of-science-building-blocks-of-life


​For this week's assignment please answer the following questions using three complete sentences, please don't copy and paste from websites because that is called plagiarism, use your own words and develop your own way of creative expression:

  1. What are the five characteristics of life discussed on the website, and how do these signs let us see that an organism is alive?
  2. What are the main macromolecules in biology and what are they used for?
  3. What is DNA, what is it made of, what does it do?
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​Week Three

​This is our website post for the week:

https://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/cell-biology-structure-and-function

Here are the three questions for the week:
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  1. What are some of the chemical bonds that we see in biology and where do we see them in action? Please provide at least three examples.
  2. What are phospholipids made of, where do they exist in our cells, what do they do, and how do they help us?
  3. How do amino acids help cells build proteins and what does DNA have to do with making proteins?
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Week Four

Website post for the week:

https://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/what-is-in-our-food 

For this week the assignment questions are:
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  1. What are three reasons that we need to eat using information from the web site post, what do our cells do with the food and what is in the food?
  2. What macromolecules are in macronutrients, what are the macronutrients and where do they go after we eat? List different types of carbohydrates and what makes them different.
  3. What are enzymes and how do they work?
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Week Five
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Here is the web site post for the week:

https://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/microorganisms-and-energy-transfer

Here are the three questions for the first assignment:

  1. What do microorganisms have to do with gasoline?  What are fossil fuels and how did they get there?
  2. What is endosymbiotic theory and what do you think about it? Do you think it makes sense for some of our organelles to be ancient bacteria?
  3. What are different types of energy and how do they move around in a trophic cycle? What is the trophic cycle?


For the second assignment of the week please work on the worksheets in the classroom page: you may type out the answers or write them and send an image of what you wrote, the worksheets are review from the past weeks.
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