Welcome to Supplemental Instruction AUGUST 28 TH 2017

Welcome to Supplemental Instruction! AUGUST 28 TH, 2017

Get to know each other! Please take the time to introduce yourself to others in your groups! Name Major Year in school Goals for this year If you could keep five possessions, what would they be and why? OR… If you won the lottery, what would you do?

Think: Pair: Share Lets get familiar with each other and learn together! Please come up with an answer to each question with your group. When you are ready, raise your hand if you get it right I will throw you candy! If you don’t catch it I get it back and I will eat it. Please feel free to take notes if you would like. However, I will post this slideshow on my SI website after the session.

Question #1 List the 5 characteristics of living things. .

Answer Consist of one or more cells Reproduces Possess hereditary information Are products of evolution Acquire and use energy

Question #2 What is a prion?

Answer A protein existing outside of a cell; folded in a different way; misfolded, abnormal. Attaches to other proteins and changes their shape.

Question #3 What are the two ways viruses store material?

Answer Stored in DNA and RNA (viruses mostly store in RNA)

Question #4 What are some characteristics of a virus? (3)

Answer No cell membrane Can’t replicate independently of host cell Can’t acquire and use energy independently of host cell

Question #5 What are the two general cell types? What are their differences?

Answer Prokaryotes have no nucleus. Eukaryotes do possess a nucleus. Prokaryotic cells are bacterial cells. Eukaryotic cells are larger and consist of organelles. They are larger because they are generating enough energy for all organelles to do work.

Question #6 What are the two general types of replication (reproduction)?

Answer Asexual and sexual. . What are some benefits to both?

Question #7 Chronic wasting disease in deer is caused by?

Answer Prions

Question #8 What is mad cow disease?

Answer A fatal neurological brain disease caused by prions.

Question #9 What enables a population to evolve?

Answer Variability in genetic information (alleles)

SWITCH Please shuffle around and find a different group to sit with!

Question #10 Definition of an autotroph?

Answer Organism that produces its own food for energy; photosynthesis.

Question #11 How do we get genetic diversity?

Answer Mutations

Question #12 T or F? Mutation must be present in sperm and egg cell to be passed on to offspring.

Answer True

Question #13 What are the 3 characteristics of cyanobacteria?

Answer Prokaryote cells Unicellular or colonies of similar cell types Autotrophs – possess chlorophyll for photosynthesis

Question #14 Name some tools used to construct phylogenetic trees.

Answer Traits – fossil records Genetic evidence

Question #15 How many years ago did Earth form?

Answer 4. 6 bya

Question #16 T or F? Prokaryotes are similar to modern heterotrophic bacteria

Answer True

Question #17 What are some protist characteristics? (3)

Answer Eukaryotic cells Unicellular or colonies of similar cell types Heterotrophs or autotrophs

Question #18 What killed 50 million people in the years 1918 and 1919?

Answer Influenza

Question #19 What is influenza caused by?

Answer Viruses

Question #20 What do you guys want out of SI?

Please don’t be like Michael! Write down a question or a subject that you don’t quite understand. . I will take these with me and hopefully come up with answers to these for you by our Thursday session!

Thanks for attending! Next session is tomorrow, Tuesday August 29 th @ 6: 10 pm in Gilman 2205!