Text Assignments
by Lecture Weeks

Fall 2008

Week 1: 
Fundamental characteristics of life:  pages 2 - 9
Levels of biological organization:  page 2 - 9
Aquatic environments:  Bio10 LabLect CD Ver 3.1

Week 2: 
Terrestrial environments: Bio10 LabLect CD Ver 3.1

Week 3: 
Ecosystem structure:  Bio10 LabLect CD Ver 3.1 
Ecosystem dynamics: Bio10 LabLect CD Ver 3.1

Week 4: 
Population structure:  Bio10 LabLect CD Ver 3.1
Population functions:  Bio10 LabLect CD Ver 3.1
Population fluctuations:  Bio10 LabLect CD Ver 3.1
Population limiting factors: Bio10 LabLect CD Ver 3.1

Week 5:
Plant Evolution, Aquatic to Terrestrial Transitions: pages 334 - 337 
Nutrition in plants: pages 436 - 437

Week 6: 
Transport in plants: pages 416 - 421, pages 422 - 423, pages 428 - 431, pages 438 - 439, pages 442 - 443
Gas Exchange in plants: pages 424 - 425, pages 424 - 425
Animal Evolution, Aquatic to Terrestrial Transitions: pages 376 - 393

Week 7:
Nutrition in animals: pages 610 - 614, pages 618
Transport in animals: pages 550 - 555, pages 558 - 562, pages 568 - 579
Gas exchange systems in animals: pages 592 - 607
Homeostasis: pages 408 - 414, pages 630 - 633
Surface to volume ratio: pages 52 - 53; 594

Week 8: 
Cell organelles and their function: pages 58 - 67; 70 - 71
Basic chemistry: pages 22 - 27
Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins: pages 32 - 45
Function of enzymes: pages 79 - 81

Week 9: 
Cell membranes: pages 56 - 57
Movements across membranes: pages 82 - 91
Photosynthesis and Cell respiration: 64 - 65

Week 10: 
The cell cycle, Mitosis: pages 124 - 137 (also Bio10 LabLect CD Ver 3.1 and the Bio10 Lab Manual )
Chromosome structure: pages 126 - 127
Nucleic acids (DNA, RNA): pages 46 - 47; 184 - 192
Molecular genetics (protein synthesis): pages 193 - 205
The Scientific method: pages 12 - 14 (also Bio10 LabLect CD Ver 3.1, Glossary and Study Guide, and the Bio10 Lab Manual )

Week 11: 
Gametogenesis, Meiosis: pages 138 - 149 (also Bio10 LabLect CD Ver 3.1 and the Bio10 Lab Manual )

Week 12: 
Mendelian genetics: pages 150 -157
Non-Mendelian genetics: pages 158 - 179

Week 13: 
Chromosomal aberrations: pages 178 - 179

Week 14: 
Darwinian evolution: Bio10 LabLect CD Ver 3.1

Week 15 through 17:
Population genetics: Glossary and Study Guide

Evolution: Bio10 LabLect CD Ver 3.1

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