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Welcome to Bio184L!• Contemplating the nuts & bolts of Life

• x Viv o ’s 3D cell animation

Lets hear about you

ON A NOTECARD

1. Your name

2. Your major and year

3. Something interesting about you

3About me...

• Katie Sammons

• kms10@email.arizona.edu

• Office Hours: Monday 2-4 by appt only.

• If you do not email me, I will not be there

Meet your Preceptors

• Sara

• Grace

• Anny

• Serena

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Overview

• Goal is to demonstrate scientific thinking & problem solving methods… and learn some molecular biology while we’re at it.

• You will play a major role in experimentation and protocol design. I am not interested in regurgitation, but rather in understanding.

• See page ix in your lab manual for elaboration on goals and the intentions of the course.

My expectations

• Read before class

• Be on time!

• PARTICIPATE

• Complete the assignments (online, etc)

• Participate

• Think, evaluate, investigate, understand

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Syllabus• READ IT- don’t be lazy, because I won’t be sympathetic

when you cry about some policy you “didn’t know about!”

• You must clean-up after all labs. Information on how to for each lab is available on the course homepage under “Weekly Clean-Up.” Failure to do such will result in the loss of 50% on your next quiz

*Sign the Plagiarism Agreement and give it to me next time we have lab

Personal to me

• I give a little quiz every class… Its at the beginning. You will have ten minutes to complete it, from when the bell rings (if you’re 5 minutes late, you will have 5 minutes). If you cannot make it due to a traitorous walk across campus, come see me with your class schedule

• I DO NOT accept late work. Period. No partial credit for turning anything in late, this is not high school.

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About the manual• Reading it will prepare you for class & in-class quizzes

• Reading prior to 5’ before class will allow you to understand & think about what you’re reading

• Lays out Philosophy (vii), Learning Goals (ix), expectations (xi)

• Contains Periodic Table (0-1) and Molecular Basics (0-3), rules of molecule pics (0-5) and a cell (0-7)

• All Rubrics for written work can be found both online and in your lab manual. USE THEM

1080% of success is just showing up*

• Absences must be excused from from Asya Roberts in BSE109 prior to making up

• Arriving late is absent. Leaving early is absent.

• Labs cannot be offered week after they are delivered; Avoid missing a lab

• Missing 2 labs blows a huge hole in the intellectual content. You may be dropped from the course--excused or otherwise

*--Woody Allen

Policies and Grading

• Plagiarism again… Grow up. This isn’t High School Spanish. You should know this stuff. The University does not tolerate cheating (see agreement)

• Online homework is due at 10:00pm the night before lab.

• Don’t email me with homework questions after sundown, the night they are due. I won’t answer, so start them EARLY.

• Consult your syllabus for further information

Advice

• Roam the website and get comfortable with it. It contains links for all the software you will need for the course (fo’ free)

• You must read the relevant lab chapter before you come to lab. Your quiz will be composed of questions pertinent to it and last week’s lab.

• Use me. I’ve been where you’re at… recently. I legitimately want to see you do good, but if you don’t meet me halfway, I lose interest

13Web page operation

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the Tao of Molecules•H

ow molecules feel & the world they live in

How? Why?

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Primary goals

• Creating understanding by observation and reasoning

• Establish the chemical foundations for the course:• Water & its properties• non-watery things

• Start thinking of molecules as real & tangible

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Visualizing the invisible

•Atoms & Molecules

17Coloring your world

18Four views of Water

H2O

HO

H

See lab manual, p. 0-3

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19How to draw molecules

Carbon Hydrogen Oxygen Nitrogen

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Thinking with your nose

Thinking with your nose

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• Two paper towels will be passed around

• Give your nose a pass at each

• What do you notice?

• What does the fact of smelling tell you about involvement of molecules?

• What does smelling different things tell you?

22C10H14O

• The formula for both smells. What can you conclude?

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• This is the structural drawing for both smells. What can you conclude?

• See ‘Duo_Comparator’ in Lab01f folder

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Doing it•C

omputers, stations•(

FYI: how to use Assessor link on Software page)•M

olecular properties•G

roup names: Once you open assessor, come see me for a group name!!

How to get to the activity•O

pen Lab TAO 1 Folder•D

ouble click on the icon of a molecule on a black background•I

will assign each group a different name. Write what yours is down s you can go back and look at my comments

•Enter your section number

•Find the “select and exercise” at the top

•Select “molecules and properties”

•GROUP NAMES:

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Writing your short answers

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27Clean up!

• Oil waste in the hood

• ethanol waste in the fume hood

• anything too messy wadded up and discarded

28Picking your brain

• 30-ish minute test of what you already know

• This is voluntary and anonymous, but HIGHLY appreciated and a good way for me to like you (kidding, I don’t like anyone), but I will hate you less if you do it. Please sign your name on the blank sheet of paper provided by me, so I know who did it (survey still anonymous).

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Homework Due 10 p.m. Wednesday night!

•Vocab Atoms/Mols: xWord(x2) or ‘Wary

•Assessor: Molecular World Tutorial

Next week’s quiz will includeConcepts from today

Atom colorsDeducing partial charges (from tutorial)

Manual Ch. 2

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Some advice

http://www.damnlol.com/please-do-me-right-now-224.html