You will have two opportunities for mock AP exams. The first is this Saturday from 10:30-3:30. The second will be on Wednesday May 1st from 3:15-7. They will be different practice exams that you will be able to take the test, score, and analyze the results. You may attend either or both to help you prepare for the actual exam on Monday May 13th from 8-12.
- The student is able to construct an explanation, based on scientific theories and models, about how nervous systems detect external and internal signals, transmit and integrate information, and produce responses.
- The student is able to describe how nervous systems detect external and internal signals.
- Plant lab due tomorrow
- Begin Animals: use the template provided as well as your textbook to complete the table. Use the Porifera (sponges) as a guide
- Plant exam make-up
- Plant spot test tomorrow: be able to identify and label the structure and function of the plants from the lab; know the difference between a monocot and a eudicot
- Begin Chapter 19
- Calculate transformation efficiency from lab data
- Transformation lab quiz tomorrow; know the following: function of plasmids, definition of transformation (hint use lab material or textbook), interpret and analyze the results of the lab, calculate transformation efficiency, do transformed cells have the ability to pass on their traits to their offspring?, what is the antibiotic used on the plates?