Biology 2912: Introduction to Biology - Fall 2016 Policies and Syllabus

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1 Biology 2912: Introduction to Biology - Fall 2016 Policies and Syllabus Instructor: Dr. Richard Waring (Sections 41, 42, 43 & 44) Lab Coordinator: Dr. Daniel Spaeth Office Hours: For Dr. Richard Waring: (Biology, Rm 307, ; waring@temple.edu): WF 1:00-2:30 or by appointment. Dr. Waring's web page can be found at Please direct all questions about the lab to your lab instructor or see Dr. Dan Spaeth (Biology, Rm 248Q (inner hall across from the Biology Office), ; daniel.spaeth@temple.edu). Further contact information for laboratory instructors will be provided on Blackboard (Bb). Any student who has a need for accommodation based on the impact of a registered disability should contact either instructor privately to discuss the specific situation as soon as possible. Contact Disability Resources and Services at New rules at the DRS require several days advanced notice for exam accommodations. It is the responsibility of the student (with the lecture instructor s assistance) to adhere to the DRS schedule for registration and paperwork when requesting an exam accommodation. All requests for accommodations must be communicated to the lab coordinator as well. IMPORTANT: It is necessary for this course that you obtain AccessNet and Temple accounts (Obtain these by going to You can also visit the Computer Services Help Desk, Rm 106, TECH Center, 12th St. & Montgomery Ave. Call for more information). Without an AccessNet account you will not be able to access the Blackboard site for this course. Access to this site will be explained to you at the start of the course. Exam scores are posted through the Blackboard site. Blackboard will also be used to post all the announcements pertinent to the course and the Lab. Text Excerpts from Campbell Biology by Reece, Jane B et al., 2014, Tenth Edition. Benjamin / Cummings Publishing Co., Inc., California. Available in the Bookstore as 3 options (A) the textbook with a Mastering Biology Access Code; (B) as a package which includes (1) Campbell Biology in three-hole punched, unbound format (2) Mastering Biology Code); (3) Morgan/Carter Customized Lab Manual. Item (3) is only required for the partner Introduction to Biology course, (C) Mastering Biology Access Code (comes with e-version of the textbook which is accessible for 2 years); Mastering Biology provides access to web based support material including test exercises. Course Design: Topics include biological chemistry, properties of water, solubility, macromolecules, enzymes, cells, the functions and properties of membranes, metabolism, respiration and photosynthesis. In the second half: cell communication and division, viruses, genes, DNA replication, transcription, and translation. Finally we will also discuss basic genetic concepts and introduce topics concerning gene regulation and genomes. You should read all the chapters listed. However certain subtopics (usually 1 to 2 page sections, especially in chps. 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 17, 18 & 19) will not be covered in the exams: these will be

2 pointed out to you during lectures. During the second half of the semester, there will be 2-3 assignments relating to chapter 17 these will count towards your final exam or lab grade. You will have one full week to do them and you should hand them in to your lab instructor in your lab session the following week. You are advised, ideally to read ahead, preferably to review current material between lectures, and minimally to keep up with the course. Previous students have stated that it is very difficult to catch up on missed materials, especially because current lectures (and a Biology major in general) build on preceding topics. There is too much material to cover in the week before an exam. It is your responsibility to acquire copies of assignments or "electronic" handouts on the separate lab and lecture Blackboard sites. It is also your responsibility to acquire copies of lecture notes from someone in the class if you cannot attend class. We strongly discourage incompletes. However, if you must take an incomplete you need to have taken the first 3 lecture exams, be passing the course, have attended all the labs and submitted most of your lab assignments and reports. To receive an incomplete you need to fill out a form that is available in the Biology Department Office and have it signed by Dr. Waring. It is very important that you also inform Dr. Spaeth if you are taking an incomplete. Your incomplete must be made up by the end of the following Fall semester; however if you failed to complete only the final exam, you must take the make-up exam in the following Spring semester as described below with grade calculations. Failure to make up an incomplete within the designated time limit will result in your being given a zero for the work that you did not complete. The prerequisites for this course are successful completion of the following courses (or Honors equivalent) Chem 1031(C or better) and Chem1032 (C or better) or equivalent. You must also, either be enrolled in, or have passed Chem 2201, Organic Chemistry (C- or better). You should be able to use logarithms, exponentials and do simple algebra (Note that Math 1041 and 1042 are required for the Biology and Biochemistry majors (see undergraduate bulletin). You do not need Bio 1911 to take Bio These two courses can be taken in any order. However, you must receive a C or better in both Bio 1911 and Bio 2912 before you will be allowed to take Bio 2203 (Genetics) and Bio 3096 (Cell Structure and Function). Last day to drop (tuition refund available): Monday September 12th. Last day to withdraw (no refund): Tuesday, October 25th. Students who have previously withdrawn from the same course may not withdraw. Those who have already withdrawn from several other courses should check their eligibility to withdraw. With regard to repeating courses, a W grade counts as one attempt at a course. The same course may not be repeated more than once without permission of a CST and a departmental advisor. No course may be repeated more than twice. See the undergraduate bulletin for further information.

3 Dates for Exams: Do not make winter break travel plans without accounting for the final exam schedule. Exam I: Friday September 23 Exam II: Monday October 17 Exam III: Monday, November 7 Final Exam will be according to Temple s exam schedule Calculation of grade Exam I 13% Exam II 18% Exam III 16% *Final 28% Labs 25% *Up to 25% of the final exam may contain questions which emphasize material covered in exams 1 to 3. All the grades will be posted on the Blackboard site. Using your Blackboard account, you will be able to access them as soon as they are entered into the system. Exams are closed book. Giving or receiving information during an exam is a violation of the Temple University Student Code and will result, at a minimum, in a Failing grade. No programmable calculators will be permitted. Translators are not permitted. The use of cell phones will not be permitted in exams (or during lectures). You will be examined primarily on material covered in both the textbook and the lectures and on topics which were discussed in depth in lectures but not in the textbook. Questions may include material you were specifically directed to read in order to cover sections only summarized in the lecture. The format of the examinations will be multiple choice, short answer and computation and, particularly in the final examination, problems and short paragraph questions. Up to 25% of the final exam may contain questions which emphasize material covered in exams 1 to 3. Examinations will not be returned to you. Examination scores will be posted on Blackboard. You are welcome to review your test during office hours or by appointment. All queries concerning the grading of midterm exams must be presented no later than two weeks after scores are posted on Blackboard. All queries concerning the grading of the final exam must be directed to Dr. Waring in writing no later than two weeks after the start of the following spring semester Tests must be taken during their scheduled time. Do not make travel plans without accounting for the exam schedule. If you are absent from an examination due to a medical emergency, a letter explaining the circumstances, signed and dated by a physician (unrelated to the student), must be submitted to Dr. Waring as soon as it is reasonably possible. If you miss an examination and the instructor is not notified within 72 hours, you will receive a zero for that examination. A make-up examination will only be administered in the event that proper documentation is provided to Dr. Waring. If you miss any one of exams 1-3 for an acceptable reason, you will receive a weighted

4 average of all the other exams. If you miss the final, you must take a make-up exam by the end of the third week of the following semester. All make-ups are at the discretion of the lecture instructor. Academic Code of Conduct Review the Temple University Policy on Plagiarism and Cheating under the heading Academic Honesty at: You are responsible for following this policy for all assignments, tests and exams; students who do not will be penalized. The penalty will vary with the nature of the offense, and will involve, as necessary, the lab coordinator and lecture instructors, the department, and the college. Although you will conduct lab experiments with a group of people, and discuss your results with them, the interpretation and conclusion with supporting argument should be your work, your thoughts, in your own words. All individual assignments in lab are checked for plagiarism using the on- line Safe Assign service available through Blackboard.

5 Fall 2016, Biology 2912 Lab Syllabus For details of lab exercises and assignments see lab syllabus and Blackboard Lab Page No labs week of 8/29. Labs start second week. No labs Labor Day Monday 9/5 (week 2). Students in the Monday labs for 9/5 must attend a lab later in the week. See schedule posted on Blackboard. Lab Date Protocol / Quiz Worksheets / Exercises Lab Report Quizzes / Exams 1 9/5 Y/Y Introduction, Safety & Measurement Least Squares and Graphing 5 th is Holiday Worksheet 1 & 2 Exercise 1 2 9/12 Y/Y Techniques & Spectrophotometer Report 1 (Spec) (group) Worksheet 3 Exercise 1 due 3 9/19 /YY ph and Buffers Report 2 (ph) Quiz 1 (labs 1~3) 4 9/26 N/Y Computer Lab, parts I (amino acids & proteins) Worksheet 4 Exercise2 LR 1 (Spec) due 5 10/3 Y/Y Organic Molecules / Enzyme Protocol write-up Quiz 2 (labs 3~6) Worksheet 5 Exercise 3 / Exercise 2 due 6 10/10 Y/Y Enzyme Action Report 3 (Enzymes) LR 2 (ph) due 7 10/17 Y/Y Photosynthesis Exercise4 / Exercise 3 due 8 10/24 Y/Y Cells Exercise 4 due Quiz 3 (labs 5~8) Worksheet /31 Y/Y DNA (I) Purification LR 3 (Enzymes) due Worksheet /7 Y/Y DNA (II) Gel Analysis Report 4 (DNA) 11 11/14 /YY DNA (III) PCR and BLAST Quiz 4 (labs 8~11) Worksheet 8 Exercise 5 11/21 Fall Break & Thanksgiving holiday 12 11/28 DNA (IV) Mitosis, Meiosis & Mendel LR 4 (DNA) due Worksheet 9 Exercise /5 Final Lab Exam Exercises 5 & 6 due Note: final lab exam is cumulative with questions similar to the previous quizzes but with an emphasis on the final DNA labs including assignments for those labs. The letter Y in the Protocol column indicates that a written protocol is required.

6 INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGY 2912 SCHEDULE FALL 2016 MWF 12:00 12:50 Tuttleman 303AB Instructor: Richard Waring Lab Coordinator: Daniel Spaeth The schedule is subject to change. Class Lecture Date Topic Chapter Lab Schedule 1 1 M Aug. 29 Introduction, Biological 2 No labs Chemistry 2 2 W 31 Chemical Bonds 2 No labs F Sep 2 Properties of water I 3 No labs M Sep 5 Labor day - No Class 4 4 W Sep. 7 Properties of water II 3 Lab 1: Safety & Measurement 5 5 F Sep. 9 Functional Groups 4 Lab M Sep. 12 Carbohydrates 5 Lab 2: Spectrophotometer 7 7 W 14 Lipids 5 Lab F 16 Proteins 5 Lab M Sep. 19 Proteins / Nucleic Acids 5 Lab 3: ph & buffers W 21 Nucleic Acids 5 Lab 3 11 F 23 Exam I (Chp. 1, 2, 3, 4 + Lab 3 carbohydrates & lipids) M Sep. 26 Thermodynamics I (Laws of Thermodynamics) 8 Lab 4: Organic molecules W 28 Thermodynamics II 8 Lab F 30 Enzyme Kinetics I 8 Lab M Oct. 3 Enzyme Kinetics II 8 Lab 5: Computer labs Macromolecules W 5 Model Organisms in Cells and 6 Lab 5 Genetics F 7 Cells I by Reading; Cells II 6 Lab M Oct. 10 Membranes 7 Lab 6: Enzyme action W 12 Cell Respiration I 9 Lab F 14 Cell Respiration II 9 Lab 6 21 M Oct. 17 Exam II (Chp. 5,8,6,7) Lab 7: Photosynthesis W 19 Photosynthesis 10 Lab F 21 Photosynthesis 10 Lab M Oct. 24 Cell communication (pp Lab 8: Cells 221; ; ) W 26 Cell cycle & cell division (pp 12 Lab ; ) F 28 DNA replication (pp ) 16 Lab 8

7 27 25 M Oct. 31 DNA replication (misc. pp ; ) 16 Lab 9: DNA Part I Extraction W Nov. 2 Genes 17 Lab F 4 Transcription Lab 9 30 M Nov. 7 Exam III (Chp. 9 10,11, 12 & 16) W 9 Protein synthesis 17 Lab Lab 10: DNA Part II Analysis F 11 Genomes; Mutations 17 Lab M Nov. 14 Sexual life cycle; Meiosis 13 Lab 11: DNA (III) PCR and BLAST W 16 Meiosis 13 Lab F 18 Mendelian genetics 14 Lab M Nov. 21 Thanksgiving Break-No class No Labs W 23 Thanksgiving Break-No class No Labs F 25 Thanksgiving Break-No class No Labs M Nov. 28 Mendelian genetics 14 Lab 12: Mitosis & Meiosis & Mendel W 30 Chromosomes; Sex linkage (pp. 15 Lab ; ) F Dec. 2 Viruses 19 Lab M Dec. 5 Viruses 19 Lab Exam W 7 Prokaryote gene expression (pp 18 Lab Exam ) F 9 Eukaryotic gene expression (pp 18 Lab Exam ; misc.) M Dec. 12 Cancer (pp ) & Review 18 No Labs W 14 Study Day Tentative Review Session W Dec. 21 Final Exam (Chp. 17, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19) & up to 25% from earlier chapters RH 10/3/16; YK 10/12/16