2024
Week 14
Week 14 – Day 1
(Ch. 34) – Mammals – primates – humans
Svaante Paabo – DNA clues to our inner Neanderthal
Week 14 – Day 2
Student term project presentations
Week 13
Day 1 –
Morphological and biological species concepts activity
Chapter 25 – History of life – David Attenborough series
Day 2 – Chapter 26 – Phylogeny and systematics
Day 3 – Quiz 2 – VCC
Flies lab
Week 12
Week 12 – Day 1
Watch these two lectures on Darwin and Evolution:
Complete this review for midterm 2.
Week 12 – Day 2
Evolution of populations
Week 12 – Day 3
MIDTERM 2
Weekend:
Week 11
Week 11 – Day 1
REMEMBRANCE DAY – college is closed
Week 11 – Day 2
Review non-mendelian inheritance and chromosomal theory of inheritance (with practice problems):
Week 11 – Day 3
This day is for experimental trials – if you are doing a second trial there will be a lab. If you are not, then you can work on your reports. Write an outline of your project report. Begin with the introduction, and then analyze your data, draw your graphs, and write your results summary.
Week 10
Week 10 – Day 1
Project experiments in class.
Week 10 – Day 2
Meoisis and sexual life cycles
Week 10 – Day 3
Chapter 14 – Mendel and the gene idea
Review Mendelian genetics with Hank Green on Crash Course:
Worksheet for Heredity:
Pedigrees: starring the Amoeba Sisters:
Pedigree worksheet:
Week 9
Week 9 – Day 1
Week 9 – Day 2
VCC Day – College closed.
Week 9 – Day 3
Project proposals
Population ecology
Week 8
Week 8 – Day 1
Midterm one
Week 8 – Day 2
Lab at VCC – Animal behaviour and experimental design
Week 8 – Day 3
Designing an experiment, equipment available
Population Ecology continued
Week 7
Week 7 – Day 1
Animal behaviour
Chapter review:
Week 7 – Day 2
Assign Literature Review – first part of the class project
Watch population ecology videos 1-3.
Population ecology
Experimental design and statistics
Week 7 – Day 3
Week 6
Energy acquisition lab: https://sciencerocks.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/bio1100-activity-guide-06fall-1.pdf
Week 6 – Day 1
Interactions activity:
Rainforest video,
Food web activity:
Introduced species (Video)
Week 6 – Day 2
Ecosystems – lecture
TALKS this week:
Week 5
Week 5 – Day 1
This week: watch lectures: Ch 50 Ecology and the biosphere 1, and Ch 50 Biomes
Subject: Ecology and the Biosphere
Ecology terminology:
British Columbia biogeoclimatic discussion
Exercise: Choose a biome & present
Film: Freshwater (Planet Earth)
River Basins of the World: maps
Week 5 – Day 2
Please watch community ecology lectures 1-3 for today.
Community Ecology
Leafcutter ants video
Wolves at Yellowstone introduction.
Deer and wolf introduction exercise:
Week 5 – Day 3
We will be at VCC, room 3275:
Quiz 1 – microscopes/prokaryotes, protist lab, invertebrate lab
Vertebrate lab: foetal pig dissection, lancelets
Lancelet lab
Week 4
Week 4 – Day 1
Watch two lectures: Ch 34 vertebrates fishes, Ch 34 vertebrates amphibians reptiles birds
Chapter 34: Vertebrates
Week 4 – Day 2
Chapter 34: Vertebrates
Film: Life of Mammals
Film: Flying Dinosaurs in the City
Worksheet:
Week 3
Week 3 – Day 1
Please watch invertebrate lectures: Ch 33 invertebrates 1, Ch 33 seastars
Invertebrate project.
Week 3 – Day 2
Protists and invertebrates
Week 3 – Day 3
Invertebrate lab
Protist lab:
Film:
Blue Planet: The Deep – from invertebrates to vertebrates. Here is a worksheet for the film:
Week 2
Week 2 – Day 1
Lecture: prokaryotes
Harvard video of evolving bacteria
Film and/or discussion about antibiotics
Student investigation into bacteria applications.
Activity: identifying organisms using the dichotomous key here:
Week 2 – Day 2
Excellent video on the chemistry and events that lead from bacteria (prokaryotes) to protists (eukaryotes). It is by Be Smart (similar to Crash Course).
Please watch the Protist Lecture: Chapter 28 – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3eh3yRNbgJ9IqjJKn9Fz_wa3b8vEwHAm
Tidal seas video. Please download the worksheet:
Week 2 – Day 3
Bacteria lab VCC
Week 1
Week 1 – Day 1 – Wednesday (online)
Introductions – how to use zoom, icebreaker. Here is the zoom link for the class, it will remain the same all semester:
https://vcc.zoom.us/j/62205599156?pwd=MGk4eVBHdW4yemZQdHdUUmdZMGE5QT09
Lecture: Chapter 1 – Exploring Life
Lecture slides are on the Biology 1100 tab, and the password is ‘biodiversity.’
Here is an activity guide for the course. You can download it into a folder on your computer.
Film (next week): Blue Planet: Tidal Seas.
Here is a worksheet to download for the film next week (it is a word document).
Week 1 – Day 2
Today we are doing a microscope lab at VCC, room A3275 .
Here are scanned copies of the first two labs. Bring the first one to class. Also, please get goggles for the labs.
If you would like to follow up on the in-class lab, here is a file with a summary of last year’smicroscope and bacteria lab, student image submissions, and resources for you to become more familiar with all aspects of this lab, in particular videos produced by our own amazing lab staff, Robyn Wood, Hilary Brown and Klaudia Jurkemik.
During the pandemic, we held classes online, so I recorded all of the lectures. If you miss a lecture, you can catch up by watching it online, or by reading the text chapter.
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3eh3yRNbgJ9IqjJKn9Fz_wa3b8vEwHAm
VCC Biology - Instructor Maria Morlin 
