HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM



SYLLABUS: Spring 2011

HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM

BIOL 1406 General Biology I

Course information

|Course Title: |BIOL. 1406 – 55302 / BIOLOGY 1 |

|Instructor: |Savannah E. Zinebi, Ph.D. |

|Email Address |savannah.zinebi@hccs.edu |

|Lab. hours: |Tuesdays: 2:30 -5:30 pm Room 305 LHSB New building |

|Lect. hours: |Thursdays: 2:30 -5:30 pm Room 304 LHSB New building |

|Credit Hours: |4 hours |

|Required books and |Textbook: BIOLOGY: Eighth Edition 2009, Benjamin Cummings Publishing Co. Editors: Campbell and Reece. Bring this book to both lecture |

|website |& laboratory classes. |

| |Lab book: A Hands-on experience: Royal Publishing 2009. Ed. Wagle, J.R. & Turell, M.R. 1st Edition |

| |Study website: http//cc.hccs.edu/biology/AllStudyPages/StudyPages/1406.htm |

|Course Description: |You learn about evolution, basic functions of the cell, consequences of genetic mutations, how |

| |viral and bacterial infections affect living things, gene expression, genetic engineering and the |

| |power of DNA manipulation to cure diseases & increase food productivity |

|Tutoring: |Free tutoring will be available at LHSB room 313 / Lab computer in room 415 |

|Withdrawal |Deadline to drop: April 21st |

There is no flexibility or discussion for the following rules

|1 |Exam-I: 9/23 Exam-II:10/21 Exam-III:11/11 Exam-IV:11/23 Final Exam: 12/13-19 |

|2 |Every time a chapter is finished, a quiz is given the next lecture session |

| |You must have a scantron (form 882-E) + pencil at all times |

|3 |Written project must be turned in on Thursday of week 11 |

|4 |Oral presentation will be given on Thursday of week 12 (dress professionally) |

|5 |NO MAKEUP for any missed work except with documents from Court, Emergency Room, military services, or work-related travel |

|6 |YOU CANNOT USE your computer in class, if so 10 pts will be taken of final exam |

|7 |If you use the phone in class, 5 pts will be taken off your final exam |

|8 |If you talk or joke while I am teaching, 5 points will be taken off your final Exam grade |

| |If you disrespect your classmates, you will be dropped from class |

|9 |If you miss 12 hours of class, you will automatically be dropped from class except w/ documents |

|10 |If you leave your table/lab bench/floor messy, 5 points will be taken off your lab exam. |

| |Disinfect lab table with detergent before & after use to avoid cross contamination |

|11 |NO offensive language/attitude/behavior are tolerated in class: if so, you are dropped from class |

|12 |If you leave the room before the end of class time, you will be counted ½ absent & if done on project presentation day, your presentation grade |

| |will turn into a zero |

|13 |Before coming back from an absence, do your own update & be ready for any test |

| |BEING ABSENT IS NOT AN EXCUSE to avoid taking an exam or quiz: BE READY |

|14 |Lab books will be taken from you randomly in class at anytime for grading (do your exercises) |

|15 |Going to be absent? arrange before hand for update with classmates |

|16 |If for safety reason you need help on campus, call campus police at 713-718-8888 |

Help Lines: If you need any clarification or help when absent, call your classmates

|Name |Email |Phone optional |

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Tentative schedule: susceptible to change

Every time a chapter is finished, a quiz is given the next class meeting @ 2:30pm

|Tuesday |LAB. |Thursday |LECTURE (+ lecture quizzes) |

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|Jan. 18 |Orientation: Safety procedures |Jan. 20 |Finish Chap. 1 if not done |

| |Exploring Life: Chap. 1 | |Chemical context of Life: Chap. 2 |

| |mini lecture | | |

|Jan. 25 |Ex1: The Measurements |Jan. 27 |Water & the fitness of the environ. Chap 3 |

| |Ex2: Basic Chemistry | |Carbon & molecular diversity of life: Chap. 4 |

| |Ex3: Water & its properties | |Structure & Functions of Macromolec. Chap.5 |

|Feb. 01 | |Feb. 03 |A tour of the Cell: Chap. 6 |

| |Ex4: Biomolecules: Carbs & proteins | | |

| |mini lecture | |Lec. Exam 1 (Ch 1,2,3,4,5) |

|Feb. 08 |Ex5: Biomolecules: Lipids & N. acids |Feb. 10 |A tour of the Cell: Chap. 6 |

| |Ex6: The compound Microscope | |Membrane structure & functions: Chap. 7 |

| |mini lecture | |Membrane structure & functions: Chap. 7 |

|Feb. 15 |Ex7: Cell structure & function |Feb. 17 |An Introduction to Metabolism: Chap. 8 |

| |Ex8: Diffusion & Osmotic | |Cellular Respiration: Chap. 9 |

|Feb. 22 |Ex9: Enzymes: catalysts of Life |Feb. 24 |Photosynthesis : Chap. 10 |

| |mini lecture | |Photosynthesis : Chap. 10 |

|Mar. 01 |Ex10: Cellular Respiration |Mar. 03 |Cell cycle: Chap. 12 (we skip chap 11) |

| |Lab. Exam 1 (Ex. 1- 10) | |Lec. Exam 2 (Ch 6,7,8,9,10) |

|Mar. 08 |Ex11: Photosynthesis |Mar. 10 |Meiosis & sexual life cycles: Chap. 13 |

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|Mar. 15 |SPRING BREAK |Mar. 17 |SPRING BREAK |

| |mini lecture | | |

|Mar. 22 |Ex12: Cell division : Mitosis (home) |Mar. 24 |Mendel & the gene idea: Chap.14 |

| |Ex13: Cell division : Meiosis (home) | |Chromosomal basis of inheritance Chap. 15 |

| |mini lecture | | |

|Mar. 29 |Ex14: Mendelian genetics |Mar. 31 |Molecular basis of inheritance: Chap. 16 |

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| |Ex15: Chi square Analysis | |From Gene to Protein: Chap. 17 |

|Apr. 05 |Ex16:Non-Mendelian Genetics & hum |Apr. 07 | |

| |mini lecture chap. 18 | | |

|Apr. 12 |Ex17: Karyotyping |Apr. 14 |Lec. Exam 3 (Ch 12,13,14,) |

| | | |Viruses: Chap. 19 / Star Chap. 20 |

| |mini lecture | | |

|Apr. 19 |Ex18: Barr Body |Apr. 21 |Regulation of gene expression: Chap. 20 |

| |Ex19: Gel Electrophoresis | | |

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|Apr. 26 |Ex20: Gel Protein synthesis |Apr. 28 |Genomes and their evolution: Chap. 18 |

| |Lab Exam 2 (Ex. 11- 20) | | |

| |Lec. Exam 4 (Ch 15, 16,17,19) | | |

|May 03 |Ex 21: Gel electrophoresis |May 05 |Biotechnology: gene manipulation: Chap. 21 |

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|May. 09 |FINAL EXAM: Comprehensive = All chapters included (1 through 21). |

| Read your lab manual before you come to lab: You will be given quizzes on labs you are about to do |

| * Lab: Students will work in groups of 3 or 4. |

|**Lab exams will cover all the material that we covered in lab |

| Please note that we will be lecturing for a short time on Tuesdays |

DEADLINE TO DROP: Apr. 21st

REQUIRED MATERIALS:

• Lecture notes FOR SOME CHAPTERS ONLY will be handed to you in class as hard copies or emailed to you until my website is setup. YOU MUST READ YOUR TEXTBOOK.

• LABORATORY: Always bring both your lab and text books to lab: needed to do the lab report

• Lab will be done in groups of 4 students who work & discuss the answers together, but each writes his/her lab report. Each student must turn in his/her own report yet, one only will be graded. The group must designate the report to be graded & label it: “TO GRADE”

• Study Resources:

➢ For lecture support: A lecture guide by Sen & Wagle is available at the HCC bookstore

➢ Biology Department will schedule “open labs” for review purposes

➢ Biology Department Computer Lab is at LHSB room 415: available to access department’s biology study webpage (http//cc.hccs.edu/biology/AllStudyPages/StudyPages/1406.htm), & more

➢ Use the library on the 3th floor in LHSB.

TESTING and EXTRA CREDIT: Exam time is 80 min. If you arrive late for an exam, you will have only the time remaining from the official start of the exam. THERE WILL BE NO MAKEUP EXAMS unless you can prove you had to go to court or emergency room on the day of the exam.

Use of recording devices, including camera phones and tape recorders, is prohibited in classrooms, laboratories, faculty offices, and other locations where testing is taking place. Violations of this policy will result in discipline, up to and including termination or expulsion.

Students with disabilities of any kind including those who need to use a recording device as a reasonable accommodation should contact the Office for Students with Disabilities (room 106) for information (call 713 718-6164). Instructors are only authorized to provide accommodations requested by the Disability Support Services Office.

TESTING

LECTURE EXAMS:

FOUR LECT. EXAMS will be given, each worth 100 points. The questions will be primarily multiple choices, but may include some true/false, fill in the blank, picture identification, and short assays. The material for these tests will come from lecture notes and textbook. You will take 4 lecture exams, the lowest grade of the 4 will be dropped. The final exam cannot be dropped or replaced with any other grade.. If you miss an exam without a valid excuse, you are automatically given a zero. On test days, once someone has finished the exam, no other student may enter and start that exam. If you are late for class on a test day, you may be prohibited from taking the test. No restroom breaks are allowed during exams.

LECTURE QUIZZES: when a chapter is finished; a quiz will be given first thing next class meeting

LAB. EXAMS:

TWO LAB EXAMS will be given, each worth 100 points (60-80 questions). Usually, 50% of each exam will be in the form of a practical and 50% in the form of theoretical questions.

LAB QUIZZES will be given at the end of lab session and will cover the material of the lab that is going to take place & the lab done the week before. Read lab material before coming to class every Tuesday. You may not understand everything you read but know the experiment’s steps & goals

Extra credit:

If you participate in class activity and answer questions during lecture, you are guaranteed extra points on your final average

HOW DO I CALCULATE MY GRADE AVERAGE?

|4 lect. exams 100 pts each (drop lowest) 300 pts |

|Final exam 200 questions 200 pts |

|2 lab exams 100 pts each (both mandatory & can’t be dropped) 200 pts |

|20 Lab reports (drop lowest 3 & average 17): 100 pts |

|15-16 lect Quizzes (drop 3 & average the rest) 100 pts |

|Research project (written = 80pts ; presentation=20pts) 100 pts |

|Homeworks (For every homework you do, you have 1 extra point) 20 pts |

|FINAL GRADE = (1020 pts+Extra pts) / 10 |

|GRADING SCALE: 90-100 = A 80- 89 = B 70- 79 = C 60- 69 = D 0- 59 = F |

YOU CAN RENT TEXTBOOK FROM BOOKSTORE FOR 40% the full price: return 1 week after final exam

Academic integrity: Cheating and plagiarism are defined as taking credit for work that is not one’s own or assisting others in doing so. Cheating and plagiarism are the unauthorized use of another’s work or the use of any material or type of assistance other than those permitted by the professor. Examples:

deliberate or prolonged looking at and/or copying another person’s paper during a quiz/exam

unauthorized verbal or nonverbal communication during a quiz/exam

bringing unauthorized notes or other materials into a quiz/exam setting

using or distributing information about an unauthorized copy of a quiz/exam

helping someone else with any of the above activities

Copying information from internet, books, and articles (etc.) and pasting it in your own project without mentioning the name of the author(s). We have programs that take your written project electronically and check it for plagiarism in seconds

A student who is suspected of cheating or plagiarism will be confronted by the faculty member for a violation of academic integrity. The consequences for such a violation may include, but are not limited to, any or all of the following at the discretion of the faculty:

a zero on the quiz or exam, project

Withdrawal from the course or expulsion from the college.

NOTICE TO STUDENTS FROM THE BOARD OF REGENTS:

All students who repeat a course for the third time (and beyond) will be assessed an additional $50.00/credit fee on top of the normal tuition for the course.

Please ask your instructor/counselor about opportunities for tutoring / other assistance prior to considering course withdrawal (before April 21st)or if you are not receiving passing grades.

Info on money for college:

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS:

Receiving a W in a course may affect the status of your student Visa. Once a W is given for the course, it will not be changed to an F because of the visa consideration. Please contact the International Student Office at 713-718-8520 if you have any questions about your visa status and other transfer issues.

The only circumstance under which you can get an “I” is if you are too ill to take the final lab &/or lec. exam

DISABILITY STATEMENT:

Any student with a documented disability (e.g. physical, learning, psychiatric, vision, hearing, etc.) who needs to arrange reasonable accommodations must contact the Disability Services Office at the Central College, Room LHSB 106, phone #: 713-718-6164

THINGS YOU SHOULD DO after YOU RECEIVE THIS SYLLABUS:

• Read the syllabus in its entirety & ask any questions you might have about it

• Access your HCCS email account. This is an account you have automatically as a registered student at HCCS. Go to hccs.edu, click on “For Students”, then “Student Email”. This will take you to a place where you can find out about your User ID and Password. HCCS will be using this email account to send you important information about registration, financial aid, etc.

• Investigate the various sites that are there to help you study for the course: Quizzes, Interactive Sites, and Lab Study Pages (http//cc.hccs.edu/biology/AllStudyPages/StudyPages/1406.htm). Try some of the interactions out to see if you think they will be helpful. There is probably more on the site than you could actually ever use, so try to choose those things that you think will help you succeed.

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT TAKING THIS COURSE

1. The textbook and lab manual are required.

2. Full class attendance is required. I will call the roll sheet twice every lecture & lab meeting. STUDENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING COVERED DURING THEIR ABSENCE. If you decide to stop attending class, it is your responsibility to let me know before you withdraw.

3. To avoid disruption in the classroom, all pagers must be set on the silent mode and cell phones must be turned off during the class period (if emergency, place in vibrate mode). If you are seen using a cell phone or any other electron device during the exam, you will not be allowed to complete the exam.

4. No one other than students enrolled in the class are allowed in any classroom.

5. Eating, drinking, smoking, or children are NOT allowed in the laboratory.

6. You must read the laboratory safety rules before doing any of the lab exercises.

7. The laboratory safety release form must be signed during the first lab session you attend. If you do not sign the release form, none of your test papers will be returned to you.

8. Dissection of preserved animals is required in the following courses: BIOL 1407, 1314, 2401 and 2402. You may be excused from dissection if you have a letter from your doctor declaring that you are unable to handle dissection specimens. I strongly suggest that if you are pregnant, you seek the advice of your physician before participating in dissection.

9. Grades will not be posted publicly at any time during midterm; they will only be poster at the end of the semester on HCC website.

10. CHEATING IS NOT PERMITTED. This means the only source of information that you may use during an exam is your own brain! If cheating occurs, the student will receive a zero for the exam or a grade of "F" in the course.

11. Students who require reasonable accommodations for disabilities are encouraged to report to Room 102 SJAC, or call 713.718.6164 to make necessary arrangements. Instructors are only authorized to provide accommodations requested by the Disability Support Services Office.

RESEARCH PROJECT

You will be writing and presenting a research project (in groups of 2 students only) on health issues like cancer, Liver cirrhosis, DNA technology, euthanasia, alcoholism, drug addiction etc. You will write a 4-6 pages report with an extra page for bibliography to support your writing.

Then you will make a PowerPoint to present your research before your classmates. This research paper is as important as any lecture exam (worth 100 pts). You will get the project on the 3rd week of the semester.

Written project grade is the same for the 2 partners but the presentation grade is individual

More detail will be given to you when the projects are given on week 2.

N.B. I reserve the right to change the schedule in this syllabus if needed during the semester.

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