Death Valley in bloom. Spring '04 |
Welcome to Bio 1C! Please use these materials to help you, and realize some of the materials (such as lecture notes etc.) may not be up to date, or may be updated later.
DON'T FORGET TO ATTEND THE SI SESSIONS!! Our very superior SI Leader is Angie Reed
Here is the video/lecture on fungi by Paul Stamets - its great!
MAP to Monterey Mushroom farm
| Material | Description |
| Course Syllabus Spring 2012 | Course Description and Schedule |
| Readings for 7th Edition | Campbell 7th Edition readings |
| Class Project | Overview of the powerpoint project |
| Access study materials | link to Access study materials |
| Powerpoint rubric | Rubric for the Powerpoint presentation |
| Lab report rubric | a rubric to help write the major lab reports |
| Lab exam 1 study | Study guide for the first lab exam |
| Lab exam 2 study | |
| Lab exam 3 study | Angiosperms: flowers, fruits, seeds, life cycle, roots, stems, growth, leaves, physical factors, fungi |
| Lecture exam 1 study Guide | GO TO SI sessions! REVISED: through seedless non-vascular |
| Lecture exam 2 study Guide | Studyguide for lecture exam 2 - |
| Lecture exam 3 study guide | Study guide for lecture exam 3. Semester almost over!! |
| Final material study guide | The 'final' stuff! |
Here it is!!! The PDF of all the handouts in the green packet
| Title | Notes |
Lab: Life Cycles and Plant cells Here is a copy of the 'game' we play: life cycle cards |
Also download this life cycles worksheet and this one on life cycle patterns |
| Lab: Bacteria and Eukaryotes | Cyanobacteria and intro to eukaryotes - plant cells. |
Lab: Eukaryotes II - plant cells and tissues NOTE: this lab is on the same handout you have for Lab1: Lifecycles and Plant Cells |
download this handout on plant cells |
| Lab: Photosynthesis | |
| Lab: Photosynthetic protists | Also download these handouts on protists: Protists 1, Protists 2, and Protists 3 |
| Lab: Algal protists | And also this handout on green algae |
| Lab: Bryophytes and seedless vascular plants | Mosses! |
| Lab: Ferns and Conifers and... | Also download the fern life cycle, and table of gymnosperm characteristics |
| Lab: flowers and life cycles | BRING flowers to Lab today if you remember!! Also here is some terminology |
| Lab: seeds and fruits - after fertilization! | Bring any seeds and fruits you want to investigate. Also download this KEY and info. |
| Tissues, stems and roots: growth! | Pick up some cool stems and roots |
| Leaves, adaptations and allelopathy Lab | I will hand out some of this Lab in class - but download this part! |
| Fungi lab | download this table too |
| INTERTIDAL PROJECT Download: Intertidal habitats characteristic of the Monterey Bay and the Methods handout for the lab and this powerpoint about some of the organisms | Read these carefully before lab |
| Float data | here are all groups together |
| Intertidal spreadsheet | enter your data here, with team names! Low tide data here |
| Plant communities template and example | Download these! |
| Assessing the Role of Predators in Ecological Communities | Paper discussing the role of killer whales in shaping the North Pacific ecological communities. |
| Megafaunal Collapse in the North Pacific | bottom up vrs top down forcing as mechanisms shaping the community structure |
| Humans and primary productivity | mapping human appropriation of global primary productivity (PNAS paper) |
| Size and Function in conifer tracheids and Angiosperm vessels | A great paper about 'flow' in these two phyla of plants. American Journal of Botany |
| Darwins finches and Character displacement | A paper with some great examples of character displacement (Science journal) |
| Paddack paper | A paper on community structure and trophic dynamics on coral reefs: fish |
Course Introduction Review of mitosis and meiosis |
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| Classification | Principles of Taxonomy and phylogeny |
| Lecture 2 | prokaryotes, cyanobacteria |
Eukaryotic cells, plant cells and tissues. Download this handout on plant cells (terminology) too. |
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| Lecture on photosynthesis | |
| Protists I | Evolution of eukaryotic cells, Plant-like Protists |
| Protists II-Algae | Algal protists |
| Bryophytes (Non-Vascular Plants) Origins of Vascular Plants Seedless Vascular Plants (Ferns and Friends…) |
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| Gymnosperms! | Gymnosperms and the power of the seed |
| Angiosperms 1 | Flower power! |
| Angiosperms 2 | More flower power-reproduction |
| Plant growth and development | Angiosperm structure and growth |
| Transport in plants | Xylem and Phloem flow - mechanisms for moving fluid |
| Plant Hormones | An overview of plant hormones |
| Plant physiological ecology | adaptations to environmental stress - posted 10/25 |
| Fungi | fungal ecology, phyla and life cycles. Check out the Monterey Mushrooms website, as well as Far west fungi website for great mushroom info. |
| Ecology and ecosystems I | Some of the ecology slides |
| Ecology and ecosystems II | The rest of the ecology slides |
| Ecology notes | Some of my ecology notes |
| Ecology/succession notes | Some more of my notes |
| Ecosystems notes | notes on energetics and biogeochemical cycles |
| behavior powerpoint | notes/powerpoint for animal behavior |
| populations powerpoint | notes/powerpoint for population dynamics |
| Conservation Biology notes | Some of my (unguaranteed)notes |
| Conservation Bio powerpoint | Slides and notes |