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 – TBA
Morphological and biological species concepts activity
Day 2 – Chapter 25 – History of life – David Attenborough series
Day 3 – Chapter 26 – Phylogeny and systematics
Week 12
Week 12 – Day 1
Watch these two lectures on Darwin and Evolution:
Week 12 – Day 2
Week 12 – Day 3
MIDTERM 2
Weekend:
Week 11
Week 11 – Day 1
Darwin (Ch22)
Week 11 – Day 2
Evolution of Populations
Review non-mendelian inheritance and chromosomal theory of inheritance (with practice problems):
Week 11 – Day 3
MIDTERM 2
Week 10
Week 10 – Day 1
Mendel and the Gene Idea (Ch 14)
Review Mendelian genetics with Hank Green on Crash Course:
Worksheet for Heredity:
Pedigrees: starring the Amoeba Sisters:
Pedigree worksheet:
Week 10 – Day 2
Remembrance Day
Complete this review for midterm 2.
Week 10 – Day 3
Flies Lab
Week 9
Week 9 – Day 1
Project Proposals
Week 9 – Day 2
Meoisis and sexual life cycles
Week 9 – Day 3
Project Experiments
Week 8
Week 8 – Day 1
Population Ecology
Watch population ecology videos 1-3.
Experimental design and statistics
Week 8 – Day 2
Animal behaviour – Literature Report Due
Week 8 – Day 3
Designing an experiment, equipment available
Sow bugs lab
Week 7
Week 7 – Day 1
Please watch community ecology lectures 1-3 for today.
Community Ecology
Leafcutter ants video
Wolves at Yellowstone introduction.
Deer and wolf introduction exercise:
Community Ecology
Interactions activity:
Rainforest video,
Food web activity:
Introduced species (Video)
Assign Literature Review – first part of the class project
Week 7 – Day 2
Ecosystems – lecture
Week 7 – Day 3
Energy acquisition lab: https://sciencerocks.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/bio1100-activity-guide-06fall-1.pdf
Week 6
Week 6 – Day 1
Thanksgiving Day – College Closed
Week 6 – Day 2
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
TALKS this week:
Week 6 – Day 3
Week 5
Week 5 – Day 1
Chapter 34: Vertebrates
Film: Life of Mammals
Film: Flying Dinosaurs in the City
Worksheet:
Vertebrate lab: foetal pig dissection, lancelets
Week 5 – Day 2
Vertebrates continued.
Watch two lectures: Ch 34 vertebrates fishes, Ch 34 vertebrates amphibians reptiles birds
Chapter 34: Vertebrates
Week 5 – Day 3
We will be at VCC, room 3275:
Quiz 1 – microscopes/prokaryotes, protist lab, invertebrate lab
Lancelet lab
Week 4
Week 4 – Day 1
Please watch invertebrate lectures: Ch 33 invertebrates 1, Ch 33 seastars
Invertebrate project.
Week 4 – Day 2
Truth and Reconciliation Day – College Closed
Week 4 – Day 3
Invertebrate lab
Week 3
Week 3 – Day 1
Protists
Please watch the Protist Lecture: Chapter 28 – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3eh3yRNbgJ9IqjJKn9Fz_wa3b8vEwHAm
Week 3 – Day 2
Protists and invertebrates
Week 3 – Day 3
Protist lab:
Film:
Blue Planet: The Deep – from invertebrates to vertebrates. Here is a worksheet for the film:
Week 2
Week 2 – Day 1
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).
Lecture: prokaryotes
Harvard video of evolving bacteria
Film and/or discussion about antibiotics
Student investigation into bacteria applications.
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:
TBD
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 
