Artificial Selection Lab clarification

Continue today working on your design of the lab and possibly begin construction of your apparatus. A couple of things to consider

• the purpose of this lab is to grow plant to test the effects of artificial selection (hence the title of the lab), as you are designing your experiment, keep that in mind.
• Each group will receive 6 Fast Plant seeds.  You don't necessarily need 1 bottle for each seed, but you definitely want more than 1 bottle for all 6. :)
• I will provide (on Monday), dirt, string, fertilizer (Miracle Gro), peat pots(better soil to start the seeds in), grow lights and water

Artificial Selection Lab

We are starting research on AP Bio lab #1 "Artificial Selection"
Click here for the student version of the lab.  
Use the following lab rubric to help in your rough draft. 

The evolution 101 website is a great place to get background information on the ideas of evolution.  Take some time to explore the site. On the next block day you will be conducting your lab.

Block Day (Squirrels and Quiz)

Continue working on all of the assignments in the Squirrel post. 

Once you have completed all of that (allotted time is 1 hour), then log onto canvas, and complete the quiz, that has Hardy-Weinberg problems, as well as problems on the Founder Effect, Genetic Drift and Population Bottlenecks.

By the end of the class, you should have all of the following completed & turned into canvas

• Analyzing Squirrel Population data (pg 1 & 2 in one document)
• Founder Effect
• Population Bottelnecks and Genetic Drift
• Quiz on Canvas

Also, make sure that you have completed and turned in 

• Winter assignment
• Model BLAST Lab
• Independent BLAST lab
• Hardy Weinberg Problems

Squirrels ;)

So now that you understand Hardy-Weinberg, look at actual data of an actual Squirrel population.

Make some graphs and analyze the data (there are directions on the PDF -- Squirrel pg 1 Squirrel pg 2).  You can draw the graph by hand and take a picture, put the data into logger-pro (on every school computer) and use that to create a graph to put into your document, or create a graph with a spreadsheet on google drive. Whatever works for you :)

Now what happens when you have a small founding population?  Or some sort of population bottleneck or genetic drift?

More Hardy-Weinberg :)

First, solve the following problem 
remember the formulas for Hardy-Weinberg are

p + q = 1

&

p² + 2pq + q²

Click here for the problems of the day :)

Hardy-Weinberg Problems

More about Hardy-Weinberg :)

Click here for the PowerPoint

More information (and sample problems can be found on LabBench)

Work day and assembly

Since the schedule is modified for today's assembly, please use the time you have in class to work on your BLAST labs (either the model or your own independent research)

Here is the bell schedule.

Hardy-Weinberg Simulation lab

Today we ran a simulation for a "perfect" no changes population

Click here for the class data and information about agents of evolutionary change.

Survey (if you haven't) and your own BLAST

Please click on the link below, and fill out the survey.

http://goo.gl/forms/uq0GWijhaI

Don't forget the winter assignment  was due Friday, if you haven't turned it in, please do so.  Please make sure you have accepted the invitation to the Spring Semester Canvas Class, because that is where you will turn in your winter assignment.

Continue working on the model BLAST lab (directions here)

Once that is complete, you will research, design and conduct your own independent BLAST lab.  Click here for some guidance

Winter Assignment and continued "BLASTing"

Please click on the link below, and fill out the survey.

http://goo.gl/forms/uq0GWijhaI

Don't forget the winter assignment  is due today.  Please make sure you have accepted the invitation to the Spring Semester Canvas Class, because that is where you will turn in your winter assignment.

Continue working on the model BLAST lab (directions here)

Once that is complete, you will research, design and conduct your own independent BLAST lab.  Click here for some guidance

BLAST lab continued . . .

Discuss the following questions with your table.

• If you have 4 samples and want to compare them 2 at a time, how many different combinations will you have to compare?

• What might your data table look like to collect that data?

Again, here are the directions for the model BLAST Lab.

You will complete this one and then once you are more 

familiar with how it works, you will come up with your own 

question to test and run your own BLAST inquiry.

BLAST Lab :)

AP Bio Lab #3
Comparing DNA Sequences to Understand Evolutionary Relationships with BLAST

Click here and make a copy of the background information.  Highlight and mark up the text accordingly.

Now, here are the directions for the model BLAST Lab.  You will complete this one and then once you are more familiar with how it works, you will come up with your own question to test and run your own BLAST inquiry.

Pre-test :)

Pre-test today :)

Please do not guess, I want to know what you know, not how good you can guess answers.

Fill out the bubble sheet with your answers, once that is done, please go to

https://puhsd.d2sc.com/index.html

Your log on and password are your ID#.  Click on Student-at-a-glance (on the left of the screen).  Click on your name, and then assignments.  Your classes should come up on the middle part of the screen, click on assessments under AP Biology, and then take assessment.  You should be able to enter your answers there. Once complete, click save and then submit.

Welcome Back, let's talk about Cladograms :)

Using a whiteboard and the following information, create a cladogram :)

Once that is complete, compare your results to other tables, then we will move onto other problems in the cladogram quiz :)


And here they are . . . .