(Print this document to use as a reference for
completing Chapter 13 Assignments.)
Read the materials for Chapter
13: Genetics
Note the objectives and read carefully taking notes.
READ the chapter in your book, carefully taking notes.
After reading the materials, complete the following
assignments for Chapter 13:
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- Go to your textbook companion site:
- Select Chapter 13.
- Click the Key Terms Flashcards item on the left.
- Go through the cards until you know all the terms.
- If there are terms that you are not certain how to pronounce,
- click the glossary
- Click the first letter of the term at the top of the glossary
- Scroll down until you see the term.
- Click the term and listen to the pronunciation.
- Practice saying and spelling the term until you are certain you know
it.
- Take the test on terms for this chapter.
- Go to your course blackboard site, click assignments, click the link
for this chapter.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the link for the terms
test.
- The test is timed and you will only have 10 minutes to take it.
Once you start the test, you must complete it or the test will be
locked. Make certain you watch the clock on the screen so that you
submit it on time.
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- Go to your textbook companion site:
- Click the link for chapter web links
- Look at several of the links you think might be interesting
- Select one for which you want to do a report.
- If none of them look interesting to you, consider selecting one of
these instead:
- Write a brief summary of what you learned from reading the report.
You must have at least three specific statements of things you learned
(or found interesting). You must include both the name of the
reading and the URL in your summary.
- Post your summary on the class discussion board as a reply to the
appropriate thread.
- Read at least one of the summaries that your classmates have posted.
Reply to your classmate's summary with a list of at least two things you
found interesting about that summary. You must make an original
reply. Any replies that appear very similar to the replies of
another student will not receive credit. It would probably be best
to reply to a summary that does not have a reply to make certain that
your reply is unique.
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At the end of the chapter, you will find a summary, review questions,
and discussion questions for the chapter. Read the summary, the
review questions, and discussion questions. Go to the class
discussion board. Click the thread for review/discussion/summary.
Read the postings of your classmates. YOU MAY NOT post the same
review question, discussion question or summary point as any of your
classmates.
- If you select a review question, you must state the question and then
answer it completely.
- If you choose a discussion question, you must state the question and then
answer it completely.
- If you choose a summary question, you must state the the summary point and
then expand on it. For example if you select summary 7 from chapter 1, you would answer
something like:
- Botany, the study of plants, apparently began with Stone Age peoples'
practical uses of plants. Eventually, botany became a science as intellectual
curiosity about plants arose. Botany is considered because the
scientific method which describes the procedures of assuming and testing
hypotheses, is used when studying botany.
Your posting must be accurate and must use good grammar. The
subject of your posting should be:
- review # OR
- discussion # OR
- Summary #
where # represents the number of the item.
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You can use the sites given in the
Course Companion: Web links section above
to see the type of things you could see if you did this assignment in a
lab.
When doing lab 21, you should do pages 197: 2; 198: 4, 5, 6; page 199: 10.
If you have any questions while doing these, use the "tell me more" thread in
chapter 13 to discuss your work/answers with classmates. Answer the questions in your lab book for Lab 21 Genetics using the Review
questions: 1,2,3,4,5,8,9,10; and Laboratory Preparation Quiz questions:
1,2,3,7,8,9,10. The blackboard lab quiz for this lab
will be based on answering the questions on the review exercises and the lab preparation
quiz.
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There will be a 20 question quiz for each chapter. The quiz is open
book and notes, but it is timed and you will only have 15 minutes to answer the
20 quiz questions. However, you may take the test as many times as you
want. Each time to take the quiz, you will be presented with 20 questions
randomly selected from the chapter test pool. NOTE: For the final exam you will NOT be allowed to use notes or take the exam more than
once, but the questions will come from the test pools for chapters 13-24.
To take the chapter quiz,
- Scroll down to the bottom of the assignments page for this chapter in
blackboard. (Click assignments, intro
assignment to get back here)
- Click the "take quiz" link below the Chapter Quiz
label.
- You only have 15 minutes for the quiz, BUT
- You may take it again and again as often as you want until the due date
for the assignment is past.
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Activity | Points awarded |
| Terms Quiz (1-5 depending on your score) | 5 |
Weblinks: Summary is grammatically correct with three specific
statements , name of the reading, the URL in your summary. -1 for each
thing missing
2 additional points for the reply to another student with 2 interesting items. 1
for 1 | 8
2 |
review/discussion/summary
grammatically correct with correct subject, item stated, answer correct and
complete.
-1 point for EACH item missing | 5 |
| Lab work depending on quiz score (1 - 10) |
10 |
| Chapter quiz: |
20 |
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