General resources for class
- I am no longer updating this page for current students; check Canvas for all class resources. This page does, however, have information that my students (and others) might find useful.
- Study tips from students who have earned an A in BIOL 1005
- Final exam preparation
Useful Videos and Activities
Getting Help:
Unit 1 (Chemistry and Cells):
- What is life? (Kurzgesagt)
- Characteristics of life (McGraw-Hill BioNow video)
- What are you? (Kurzgesagt)
- The Inner Life of a Cell
- Cell size and scale activity
Unit 2 (DNA, Cell Division, and Inheritance):
- DNA Learning Center transcription (real time)
- DNA Learning Center translation (real time)
- The Animated Genome
- Epigenetics of identical twins
- Viral replication video from class
Unit 3 (Evolution and Diversity):
- Solving radiometric dating problems
- How evolution REALLY works
- Natural and sexual selection in birds
- Reading an evolutionary tree video
- Tree of life
- How did you get here? (ASAP Science)
- History of the world in 18 minutes (TED talk)
- How life came to land (TED-Ed)
- Human origins (Kurzgesagt)
- Pollination and fruit development [read the subtitles]
- Rock pocket mouse video
- Lizard video
Unit 4 (Ecology):
- Parasitic Cordyceps fungi on arthropods
- Ecological succession on Hawaii
- The Story of Stuff
- Global climate change graphic from xkcd
PRACTICE questions (and answers)
The book includes a variety of practice questions, including Mastering Concepts (after each section), Figure It Out (within certain sections), Write It Out (end of chapter), Scientific Literacy (end of chapter), Get the Picture (end of chapter), and Pull It Together (end of chapter). Feel free to ignore questions or terms that we didn’t go over in class or lab.
Tip: Write out the answers to these questions from the textbook as a way to help you practice while you study.
Yes, but where are the answers? Each question is linked with its answer in the ebook. Don’t peek until you’ve WRITTEN your shot at each answer yourself, and KEEP WRITING until you can do it perfectly every time without relying on the key!
