Welcome to Biol 1009!

Department of Biology
Teaching and Learning

MPLS Oce: 3-154 MCB
Phone: 612 625 2532

Where is MCB?

Biology Oce

3-154 MCB, 612 625 2532

Dr. Cheryl ScoI

Dr. Tony Dean

Department of Biology
Teaching and Learning

MPLS Oce: 3-154D MCB
Phone: 612 625 9048

Oce Hours:
Tuesday 11:30am-12:30pm
or by appointment

Email: scot0136@umn.edu

BioTechnology InsStute

St Paul Oce: 222 Snyder
Oce Hours: By Appointment

Phone: 612-624-7299
Email: deanx024@umn.edu

Dr. Deans Oce

Dr. Deans Oce

Snyder Hall
Gortner Hall

222 Snyder Hall, 612 624 7299

222 Snyder Hall, Enter through Gortner Hall

Tutorial Room, 3-149B MCB

Textbook Lab Manual

Can use older ediSons

Must buy new

Cambell text available from Student Bookstore (1501 University SE) or UMN Bookstore (Coman Union)
Lab manual usually only available from the Student Bookstore

Grade Components

1st Midterm. 40 Qs
2nd Midterm, 40 Qs
Final Exam, 50 Qs
12 18-pt lecture quizzes (toss 2, keep 10)
3 lab quizzes, 40 pts each
3 reecGons, 10 pts each
Final Paper
2 graded lab excercises, 15 pts each
hypothesis/experimental design
Excel assignment
Public Service Announcement

Withdrawl
Points
160
160
200
180
120
30
30
30
30
30
30
Total 1000

Last day to cancel class and receive 100% tuiSon refund Sept 12
Last day to cancel class and not get a W

Sept 19

Last day to cancel class and receive 75% tuiSon refund Sept 19
Last day to change grade basis (A-F or S/N)

Sept 19

Last day to cancel class and receive 50% tuiSon refund Sept 26
Last day to cancel class and receive 25% tuiSon refund Oct 3
Last day to cancel class without college approval

Nov 14

Grades
A = 920 - 1000 B+ = 880 - 899
A- = 900- 919
B = 820 - 879
B- = 800 - 819

C+ = 780 - 799
C = 690 - 779
C- = 670 - 689

D+ = 650 - 669
D = 570 - 649

True or False?
F = 0 - 569

To pass on the A/F system you must earn a leIer grade of D (570 pts) or beIer.

To pass on the S/N system you must earn a leIer grade of C- (670 pts) or beIer











AND C- (201 pts) in lab











AND C- (134 pts) on Final Exam

Biology 1009 is the most failed class on campus

Its impossible to do well in Biology 1009

Biology 1009 fails over 50% of the students

Absolutely true!

Typical percentage of grades

in Biology 1009

A = 20%
B = 25%
C = 42%
D = 9%
F = 4%

Great ExpectaSons
Read text/lab manual assignments before class
Come to class prepared to listen, learn and parS-
cipate
University Senate expects you to study outside of
class:
3 hours per credit per week (12 hrs/wk for Biol 1009)
~4.5 hours in class
~7.5 hours outside of class
15 credit load ~45 hours work per week

Unannounced Lecture Quizzes

12 quizzes
3 mulSple choice quesSons per quiz
18 points per quiz
Lowest 2 scores dropped
No make-ups for any reason except university sancSoned events
You will receive 12 answer sheets in lab. Fill in your name, student
ID and lab secSon number with a #2 pencil
Keep your answer sheets in good condiSon
Answer sheets that will not scan will result in a zero score
You must take lecture quizzes in your assigned lecture secSon

Unannounced Lecture Quiz Answer Sheet

Exams
MulSple choice (40 Qs on midterms, 50 Qs on
Final)
Exams in Lecture Hall
Need UMN ID
Closed Book, NO ELECTRONIC DEVICES

University Standards of Student Conduct

Available from the Oce for Student Conduct

and Academic Integrity at:


hIp://www.1.umn.edu/oscai/

Email Policy

You must use your ocial UMN account for any

communicaSon regarding course material

No Hotmail, Yahoo etc.

Course Moodle Site

Why Study Biology?

hIps://www.my.umn.edu

Course site is found under the
My Courses & Teaching tab
Ill try to post pdfs of lectures before class (but no guarantees)

hIp://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/04/08/
avian-u-running-tally

hIp://climate.nasa.gov/interacSves/climate-
Sme-machine

The biodiversity of life

on earth is decreasing at
an alarming rate. Does
this really maIer to me?

My mother has cancer. What are

her treatment opSons? How do
we choose the best one?

Will the increase in anSbioSc

resistant bacteria aect me or my
family?
Does mercury in dental
Should I get the HPV vaccine?

Im running in the Twin CiSes

marathon in October. Does
carbo-loading really help?

We live in a society exquisitely dependent

on science and technology, in which hardly
anyone knows anything about science and
technology
Carl Sagan

amalgam cause UofM

professors to lose their
minds?

ScienSsts tell us one thing, then

the opposite. Can we believe
anything they say?

What is science?

What isnt science?

The plan is to change that.

What are the limits of science?

Fig. 1-23

How do we study biology?

Discovery science

Discovery science
Hypothesis-based science

Fig. 1-24

Also discovery science

Mississippi
Metagenome
Project

Hypothesis-based science

ObservaGons

QuesGon

Hypothesis #1:
Dead ba\eries

Hypothesis #2:
Burnt-out bulb

PredicGon:
Replacing ba\eries
will x problem

PredicGon:
Replacing bulb
will x problem

Test predicGon

Test falsies hypothesis

Test predicGon

Test does not falsify hypothesis

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Fig. 1-3

So what do we know?
What we know we
know

What we think we
know but dont

Life is.

Order

Response
to the
environment

What we know we
dont know

EvoluGonary
adaptaGon

What we dont know

that we dont know

RegulaGon

Energy
processing

ReproducGon

Growth and
development

Fig. 1-4

Life only makes sense in the light of

evoluSon

Theme: New properSes emerge at each level in the biological hierarchy

The biosphere

Cells

Organs and organ 10 m

systems

Cell

EvoluSon makes sense of

everything we know about living
organisms

Organisms living on Earth are
modied descendents of common
ancestors

Ecosystems

Organelles

CommuniGes

1 m

Tissues

Atoms

50 m

Molecules

PopulaGons

Organisms

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Fig. 1-5

Fig. 1-6

Sunlight

Theme: Structure and funcSon are correlated at all levels of

biological organizaSon

Ecosystem

Theme: Organisms
interact with their
environments,
exchanging maIer
and energy

Cycling
of
chemical
nutrients

Producers
(plants and other
photosyntheGc
organisms)

Heat

(a) Wings

Chemical energy

(b) Bones

Infoldings of
membrane

Mitochondrion

Consumers
(such as animals)

Heat

100 m

(c) Neurons

Fig. 1-7

0.5 m

(d) Mitochondria

Fig. 1-9

Theme: Cells are an organisms basic units of structure and funcSon

25 m

Theme: The conSnuity of life is based on heritable

informaSon in the form of DNA
Sperm cell
Nuclei
containing
DNA

Egg cell

FerGlized egg
with DNA from
both parents

Embryos cells with

copies of inherited DNA
Ospring with traits
inherited from
both parents

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Fig. 1-13
NegaGve
feedback
-

A

Enzyme 1

B

Theme:
Feedback
mechanisms
regulate
biological
systems

Excess D
blocks a step

D

D

Enzyme 2

D

C

Enzyme 3

D

(a) NegaGve feedback

W

Enzyme 4

PosiGve
feedback
+

Excess Z
s(mulates a
step

X

Enzyme 5

Y

Z

Z

Enzyme 6

Z

(b) PosiGve feedback

hIp://www.vub.ac.be/APNA/sta/FDG/courses/TCB/biodiversity.jpg

Organizing the Diversity of Life

Approximately 1.8 million species have been
idenSed and named to date, and thousands
more are idenSed each year
EsSmates of the total number of species that
actually exist range from 10 million to over 100
million

Copyright 2008 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings

Grouping Species: The Basic Idea

Taxonomy is the branch of biology that names and classies species
into groups of increasing breadth
Or: Taxonomy is the process of naming and subdividing the unknown un?l
the fear of it collapses under the sheer weight of nomenclature.

Domains, followed by kingdoms, are the broadest units of

classicaSon

Copyright 2008 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings

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Fig. 1-14

Species
Genus
Family
Order

Class

Phylum
Kingdom
Domain

Thursday

Ursus americanus
(American black bear)

Ursus

Review of chemistry

Ursidae
Carnivora

Mammalia

Chordata

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Animalia

Deans Killer Professors Can Owen Fail Good Students

Eukarya

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