Daily Summary 12-07

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AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Describe in detail the methods of food production used by humanity and the impacts these practices have on all parts of the biosphere, especially the soils of the planet

- Warm-up: Describe the five soil characteristics we discussed in class last week. [7]

- Finish Lecture 3: Soil Degradation [30]

- Soil Analysis Lab work time [10]

- We will finish watching Dirt! The Movie tomorrow

- Make sure Hungry Planet project is submitted by 11:59 pm today


OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Miller’s LITE reading: p. 297-303

- Soil Analysis Lab



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BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:

- Objectives: Use the scientific method to work toward an explanation for the disappearance of your Brassica plants

- Warm-up: If a cell suddenly was in need of a particular protein, like amylase (an enzyme used to break down starch into simpler sugars) for example, how would the molecular machinery of the cell know what the correct sequence was for the string of amino acids that forms amylase so that it could build this polypeptide?

- Brief introduction to protein synthesis (so-called Central Dogma of biology) [20]

- Finish cellular respiration questions (now late) and DNA structure/wrapping/replication questions and show them to Mr. Bursch

OUTSIDE OF CLASS:

- Work on Crop Failure Analysis Experiment Report (you can start the report even if you have only just begun your experiment)



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