Chapter 19 - Assignments

Textbook Companion

• Go to your textbook companion site:
  • http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072528400/student_view0/
  • Select this chapter from the drop down menu on the left.
• Select chapter 19
• 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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Course Companion: Web Links

1. Go to your textbook companion site:
   • http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072528400/student_view0/
   • Select this chapter from the drop down menu on the left.
2. 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:
     • http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fungi/fungi.html
     • http://www.perspective.com/nature/fungi/index.html
     • http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Fungi&contgroup=Eukaryotes
     • http://www.mykoweb.com/
     • http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/ (there are fun links here as well as good info)
     • http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/photos/fungi/ (a database of images of fungi)
     • http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/andes/8046/ (a personal page on fungi)
3. 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.
4. Post your summary on the class discussion board as a reply to the appropriate thread. 
5. 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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Review/Discussion/Summary

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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Lab Work

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.  Also these sites will show you would you might have seen:

• http://www.dscc.edu/rose/biology1pg5.htm (black bread mold and other fungi)
• http://www.fhsu.edu/biology/thomasson/SpringcreekF01/ascohtml/asco.html (sac fungus)
• http://www.fungus-fungi-fungal.com/penicillium.htm shows penicillium under a microscope.
  • http://www.inspect-ny.com/sickhouse/1263s.jpg ( Penicillium culture)
  • http://www.inspect-ny.com/sickhouse/1263s.jpg (Penicillium spores)
• http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/june98.html shows some common mushrooms and then the same under a microscope.
• http://www.tescan.cz/an/an_gal.html shows Lichen, Umbilicaria hirsula, - cryostat cross section on an  uncoated sample (bottom row, 2nd from right)

In addition to reading the lab and doing the review questions and laboratory Preparation for Lab 15 in your lab book, you are expected to put the appropriate labels on the Rhizopus (Black Bread Mold), the Sac Fungus, and the common mushroom (pages 139, 141, and 145).  Your quiz will have labeling questions as well as the review and preparation questions.

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Chapter Quiz

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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