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Biology Memory Tricks

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Memory tricks to learn biology terms

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  1. Biology 3201 memory tricks Unit 1 brain parts from top to bottom: cerebrum, corpus callosum, thalamus, hypothalamus, midbrain, pons, medulla oblongata think, connect, sort, hunger, sight, regulate, breathing Cerebellum — bellum balance Sodium / potassium pump (Na outside/ K inside) word help location of ions (make a sketch) Location of ions and Action Potential diagram Parasympathetic — pleasure or sympathetic scared! Skull Parietal lobe Frontal lobe Temporal lobe Pituitary Brain Dendrites Nucleus Cell body Myelin sheath MS — damage myelin, Alzheimer's — amyloid deposits, Parkinson's — death dopamine and tremors, Huntington's — brain deterioration, jerky dance. Transmitters - Norpinephrine - CNS, sympathetic nerves Acetylcholine CNS — parasympathetic nerves Cones — colour Vision problems Cerebrum - dwided into right and left cerebral hemispheres Meninges Occipital lobe Thalamus Cerebellum Brain stem Spinal cord Direction of signal Axon terminals NEAR not on retina, far-behind Endocrine glands — draw a T man Hormones - Steroid slips, protein prevented C-amp Posterior pituitary birth, milk and pee stop (oxytocin, prolactin, ADH) Andre the GIANT or BIG SHOW Hyper-high; hypo-low Schwann cell Node Axon Muscle( Hypothalamus Pituitary Thyroid gland Adrenal glands Ovaries (female) Testes One be) Parathyroid glands Thyroid goiter or 00 goiter Know your loops! Insulin sugar stored glucagon glycogen to glucose Calcium PTH Calcitonin Banting and Best fix diabetic dogs with insulin Stress — sympathetic short term, pituitary steroids Nerve impulse Axon Li timulus Presynaptic neuron Chemical transmission Synapse Nerve mpulse Postsynaptic neuron
  2. Unit 2 Progesterone Pregnancy Stages of mitosis and meiosis - Pro-meta-ana, coil up, line up split up. 46 — s — 92 — mitosis — 2 cells (46) Cytokinesis — fingers for animals and chop for cell plate of plant cells. Meiosis 46 -s - 92 -Ml 2 cells -M2 4 cells (23) Meiosis — crossing over and tetrad separation Pituitary LH (ovulation) FSH (duh!) Ovarian — progesterone (preganancy and pee test) estrogen (early) (drawing of cycle) Path of sperm testes — epididymis — vas deferens — 3 glands urethra Path of egg — ovary - oviduct — uterus cervix — vagina Fertilization, cleavage, morula, blastulation, gastrula, neurulation, . fetus organogenesis, Fertilization high in oviduct Inner cell mass — embryo. Trophoblast membranes and placenta Meso-middle-muscle Ecto-outer-skin endo-inner-gut Birth — positive oxytocin (oxy out!) Asexual : ( budding, binary fission, spores, fragmentation, parthenogenesis. Hormones development FSH, LH Plasma A. Amniotic cavity Amnion Umbilicus Yolk Chorion Extraembryonic coelom INTERPHASE consisting o' sester METAPHASE Villi Allantoic mesoderm Allantois birth control pill prevents, barriers stop, spermicides and morning after pill kill, surgery is like a barrier technologies for babies — invitro, amniocentesis > 12 weeks, ultrasound, fetoscopy, and chorionic villus sampling < 10 weeks mother — baby connection Stop here for Midyear exam
  3. Unit 3 Practice your crosses using this site - http://mail.esdnl.ca/—patrick_wells/biology/genetics/genetics.html Flower reproduction (double fertilization) Mendel pea plants Homo-same hetero- different Genotype Rr, RR, rr (2 alleles per gene) Phenotype — tall or short — what you see! vocab - know it! allele, gene, hybrid, pure, trait, PI, F 1, F2 4 step cross GASR working backwards - showing WORK! male sex structures (stamen) female sex structure Dominance (RR, Rr — round, rr - wrinkled) Try to use letters that have different cases, Tt, Qq, etc. co-dominance and multiple alleles blood types (LO, LA, LB) recessive LO, co dominant - LA, LB incomplete - snap dragons (RR, WW, RW) monohybrid — 3:1 and segregation of alleles, dihybrid — 9:3:3:1 and independent assortment sex linkage XX girl, XY boy Anything on X will always be expressed in males (Morgan) Linkage and crossing over — play dough! Chromosome theory (Sutton fly spit!) Molecular People Mendel, Sutton and Boveri, Levene, Griffith, Mcleod,McCarty and Avery, Chargaff, Franklin and Wilkins Hershey and Chase, Watson and Crick, McClintock Model of replication — see text for summary (quite good!) DNA A to T, G to C Protein Synthesis and the translation table and use the guide below Normal Male Karyotype ill c I_NIfb DNA triplets Transcription to mRNA codons Translation to tRNA Anticodon Amino Acid comes from the codon table TAC AUG (in nucleus) UAC (on ribosome) Start or methionine Mutations frameshift vs point for gene, somatic(body) vs germ (seed) Chromosome mutations they are what they say and they are bad!
  4. Autosomal recessive inheritance (Tay-Sachs and PKU), Co-dominant inheritance (Sickle-cell Disease), Autosomal dominant inheritance (progeria and huntington' s), Incomplete dominant inheritance (FH), x-linked recessive inheritance (color-blindness, muscular dystrophy, and hemophilia) Pedigree diagrams key on the recessives or look for males to see if the trait is sex linked. Define genetic engineering (bacteria, viruses and blenders). Genetic counseling — using ratios to inform Diseases - screening and prevention, surgery, environmental control, and gene therapy. Genetic engineering - restriction enzymes, recombinant DNA, DNA amplification (PCR) and bacterial vectors), gel electrophoresis, and DNA sequencing. Human genome project — find human genes to help set up gene therapy (virus infection therapy) Risks of genetics research privacy, financial, ethical. Benefits knowledge of predisposition to disease, analysis, prevention, and treatment of disease. GMF/GMO killer corn, transgenic salmon, insulin producing bacteria, oil eating bacteria - Cloners — twinning! Dolly egg injection and treatment Clones are not diverse.. Unit 4 Evolution - Risks? Terms evolution — change over time simple to complex , adaptation — a trick to survive, variation is diversity in a population Peppered moth story - population evolution and adaptation. Natural selection (God) and artificial selection (us) Charles Lyell (geological theory), Thomas Malthus (human population growth), Alfred Wallace and Charles Darwin (Natural Selection), Georges Cuvier - - Fossils Lamarck theory of acquired characteristics and use and disuse Lamarckian (wrong) and Darwinian (right!) Darwin didn't know Mendel ' s work but knew artificial selection. Genetics and Evolution come together for the modern synthesis — leading to gene pool concept. Evidence for Evolution - fossil record, biogeography, comparative anatomy (vestigial structures, homologous structures, analogous structures), comparative embryology, heredity (DNA), and molecular biology (molecules). Relative age - position of fossils in rock layers. Absolute dating - half-life of radio isotopes Selection (directional, disruptive and stabilizing) Rate evolution — GRADuAL ISM and Punctuated equilibrium
  5. Origin of Life Heterotroph then Autotroph (No Oxygen, then oxygen)

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