Engineering Biology Assignments
- Instructor
- Phil Cohen
- Term
- 2019-2020 School Year
- Department
- Science
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Past Assignments
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Scientific Drawings- ind
Spermatogenesis and OO genesis
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HW: complete Sketches
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Meiosis Jigsaw puzzle draw and label- partners
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HW: create Meiosis poster
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SPRING BREAK
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SPRING BREAK
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SPRING BREAK
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Quiz: Mendel, Punnet squares, inheritance
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Canvas App
Carnifern assignment review and turn in
Human face inheritance Lab- Due Monday
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Bonus buck quiz
1. Lect: incomplete dominance, co-dominance, Polygenic traits
2. Carnifern inheritance
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hw: Carnifern inheritance
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Genetics with a Smile
R&TN 11-3
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HW: check your understanding questions 1-5
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Lect: inheritance
2. sponge bob genetics
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HW: Complete Sponge bob Genetics
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Q&A 11.1
50/50 Lab Due EOP
Study guides due EOP
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pass out papers
1. Read and take notes 11.1. Mendellian Genetics
2. Study Guide 11.1 Due Friday
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Test Chapter 8- Mitosis
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Review Game- Mitosis, surface area to volume ratio
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2. Check for understanding: Telomeres
Discussion Telemeres and cancer
Last chance to Turn in Mitosis Lab
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Mitosis Lab (individual)
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seating chart
1. Grading Study Guide and turn in
2. Lecture: stages of mitosis
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1. reading 10.2
2. Lecture Mitosis
3. study guide due Thursday
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HW: study guide. If completed by Wednesday then you can use it on the test next week.
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Holiday- President's weekend
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Holiday- President's weekend
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*turn in 10-1
1. read and take notes 10-2
2. receive study guide after proof of reading and notes
3. 10-2 study guide
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HW: complete 10-2 study Guide . due Monday
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Why are cells small?
2. Surface area to Volume Ratio Lab
* the rationale for cell division *
Study Guide 10-1
Turn in or complete as HW
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HW: Complete lab. Due next class period, work on Study Guide 10-1
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Review Game: Cells
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1. Lect: Osmosis
2. Review chapter 7
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Study for quiz
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1. Diffusion Lab
2. Bonus Buck Quiz: diffusion, facilitated diffusion
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1. Quick Write: "if you put a drop of food coloring in water what will happen to the dye, Why?"
2. Diffusion Water and Dye example
3. Lecture: diffusion
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HW : complete study guide on diffusion
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kahoot Bonus Buck quiz
Lect: parts and functions of cell membrane
Turn in coloring sheet.
Section 7-3 review w.s.
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HW: complete Work sheet
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Turn in Cell diagrams (60 pts) *
1. Reading 7.3 cell membrane
2. Cell membrane coloring sheet
* Grading Labs *
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Plant an animal cell lab completion
Due Tuesday 60 points
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Plant and Animal Cell LAB
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Plant and Animal Cell LAB
Field Trip
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Intro micro LAB
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MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY- NO SCHOOL
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Intro Micro Lab
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Seating Chart
Bonus Buck program
Drawing Rules
Intro to Micro lab due 1/21
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Seating chart reminder
Review Parts and functions of cells- Due EOP
grade in class and turn in
* prep for pass fail test. Can retake .
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Final
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Cell Lab Due
Practice/ Study for finals
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Cell Lab
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Cell Lab
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Intro Micro LAB Due
Cell Lab start
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Introduction to microscopes lab
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1. Introduction to microscopes
2. Microscope Drawing Rules
3. Microscope intro lab
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1. Flash card practice
2. practice quiz parts and functions
3. Cell coloring: be able to identify cell parts by appearance
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HW: practice cell id for quiz
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1. Reading 7.1 & 7.2
2. Flash cards cell parts and functions
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HW: Create Flash cards for 15 cell parts and functions
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Test-Ecology
Day after Tomorrow Conclusion
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Video: Day after Tomorrow
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Video: Day after Tomorrow
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HW: study for Ecology exam
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Ecological Problem Presentations
*Audience participation Required
* issues discussed will be on test
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Ecological Problem Presentations
*Audience participation Required
* issues discussed will be on test
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Ecology Midterm
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Review for Ecology Midterm
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Ecology Project presentations
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Ecology Project presentations
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Ecological Issues Project meet with instructor to review outline and paper ( must be typewritten)
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Ecological Issues Project research
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Ecological Issues Project research
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Ecological Issues Project.
Rubric and expectations discussed
Presentations start 11/19/19
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Read and Report
Chapter 6 Group reporting
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Test Chapter 5
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1. Introduce Bonus Buck System- postponed
2. Turn in Tag and Recapture lab
3. Discussion: population problems. Rattlesnake Round up,etc
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Seating Chart
2. Turn in Deer/Wolf exercise
3. Birds of Prey Lab
* Teams can work at their tables and exchange ideas*
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Lecture : Population Growth patterns
exponential and logistical growth, environmental resistance, carrying Capacity
Wolf and Deer population problem/Graphing.
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Study Guide Chapter 5 Due day of test
Population Growth patterns
exponential and logistical growth, environmental resistance, carrying Capacity
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1. debrief Survival of the Beakest. Write up and turn in
2. Reading chapter 5- Population studies
3. Study guide Chapter 5- to be completed by Friday for Quiz
New seating chart?
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Survival of the Beakest Rounds 1-3
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HW: study guide 5.1
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Survival of the Beakest Training
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HW: R&TN chapter 5.1 Population Growth
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Quiz Chapter 4
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Video: Jungles
Review Game
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Put up Biome Poster for grading.
Take notes on Poster
1. Draw a scientific sketch showing an example of succession ( before and after) in a rain forest (15 points)
Label all relevant vocabulary ( climax community, nutrient cycles, etc) . Cancelled
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Complete Biome poster (40 points)
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College Psat Day
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Biome Table posters
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Finalize Camouflage fish Lab and place into LAB book with one example of your fish
Reading and take notes Chapter 4.3
Biomes. Biome chart
* Assign Biome for Biome poster
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Design your 10 camouflaged Fish. 10 points
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Hunters and the Hunted Video
1. List a minimum of 10 physical and behavioral adaptations used by both predators and prey.
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"Design a Fish" to be camouflaged in our Coral Reef Biome
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QOD#12: Why is it important for organisms to carve out a niche in their environment?
QOD#13: Why organisms take part in mutualistic Symbiosis?
Lect: Organism coloration
Camouflage, Warning coloration, Mimicry
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Grading and turning in study guide
. How organisms achieve a niche?
* Behaviors: Resource partitioning, Symbiosis
Fundamental vs realized Niches
Complete and turn in study guide 4.2
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QOD#11: What is the difference between weather and Climate
Bozeman Science: Ecological Niche
Discussion: Food web niche, competitive Exclusion principle
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HW: study guide 4.2
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1. Seating Chart
2. Chapter 4 read and take notes 4.1
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HW: Read 4.2, section review 4.2 Q&A
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Chapter 3 review game
extra credit prizes
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1. read and take notes section 3.3
2. complete section review 3.3 Due end of period.
3. Discussion: Biological magnification
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HW: chapter 3 assessment questions 1-10
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Table Test Ecocycles
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1. Study guide chapter 3
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HW: complete Study guide chapter 3
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QOD#10: How does the amount of energy available in the ecosystem change as it progresses up the food web.
LAB Book Sketch: Water Cycle, Carbon Cycle, Nitrogen Cycle. Use pictures for words where possible. No more than 1 cycle per page.
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HW: complete sketches and study for quiz.
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Grade "Whats for Dinner and turn in"
Lect: ecological cycles- Water, Carbon, nitrogen Cycle
R&TN ch 3.3
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HW: section review questions 3.3
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QOD#9: How is an Ecosystem like an engine?
1. Discussion- Ecological Niche
2. What's for Dinner
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HW: Food Chain/Web Practice
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QOD#8:If you were given a chance to be a part of a space exploration mission, whether it be to Mars or to the Moon, would you take the offer Why or why not? explain in complete sentences.
1. How to read and take notes in a text book.
2. Reading text 3.1
3. Lect: Earth as a system, engine.
-Equilibrium
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HW: R&TN 3.2 and be prepared to answer questions on reading
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QOD #7: What units do we measure force?
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video: The Martian
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video: The Martian
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Last day for retake : science reasoning and measurement
The Martian:
Turn in Test tube Rainbow Lab assessment 50 points
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1. Density Rainbow Lab intro. This is a standards based lab pass/Fail
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1. Density Rainbow Lab intro. This is a standards based lab pass/Fail
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1. Seating Chart
2. QOD #6: How do you measure density and when solutions of different densities come into contact what happens?
3. Grading QOD#1-#5
4. Make up measurement labs. Redo on own paper 4 density measurements.
6. Density Rainbow Lab intro. This is a standards based lab pass/Fail
* clean glassware
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Quiz- Science Lab Skills
QOD grading 2pts/?
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QOD#5: What is the accuracy expectation in regards to distance, area, volume, and mass?
Peer review Measurements Lab:
turn in labs
Science Skills Review crossword.
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HW: Complete Lab write up and turn in. Be able to answer: What is density and how is it used?
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QOD#4: What is the proper unit to measure: mass, volume, distance in class?
Measurements Lab:
Measure and calculate: distance, area, volume, mass, Density
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Measurements Lab: tools description, lab set up. Partners * each partner is required to do their own
Measure and calculate: distance, area, volume, mass, Density
Measurement LAB
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1. Complete Lab write up of strange creatures lab.
Problem: which of these strange creatures are closer in relation to the others?
Hypothesis: Using the observation of physical characteristics, Those with more characteristics in common should be closer related.
Procedure: * answer which characteristics you observed and which you considered were the deciding factor in your grouping decisions
put in Lab book
2. look at the science reasoning test answers to study for retakes by this friday.
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HW: look up how to do the following
1. use a metric ruler
2. calculate area
3. calculate volume of a rectangular solid
4. measure volume in graduated cylinder
5. measure mass using a digital scale
6. The formula for Density
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2. Complete Strange Creatures Observation lab
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Gathering Evidence . Observation and Measurement
Observation Lab- Strange Creatures
1. create Individual characteristic list, combine with group for master list and then
2. Who is related to whom? Group project
QOD# 3: what is the key to making good observations?
1. How to do solve word problems.
2. Drawing Rules hand out- how to do a scientific Sketch.
3. Brain it on competition ( app store)
Make sketch of possible answer an explain why it should work. This goes into lab book under Brain it on section.
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Causation vs correlation work time (15 min)
Turn in
QOD #2: What is the difference between correlation and causation?
Gathering Evidence . Observation and Measurement
Observation Lab- Strange Creatures
Who is related to whom? Group project
write down observations and conclusions from your lab
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HW" R&TN pages 13-15 .
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seating chart
Setting up Lab Books
Review Scientific method
Turn in Scientific method packet
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What are the five steps of the Scientific method in order and what is written in each section? Answers go in lab book
Scientific Reasoning?
correlation vs causation worksheet
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HW: finish correlation vs causation worksheet
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1. Guided Practice: Scientific Method . Due Tuesday
2. Retake and make up safety tests
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HW: Scientific Method WS
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Lab safety test
Turn in Paper Tower Lab
Need lab composition books by Monday
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Day 3
Review Lab Rules
Paper Tower right ups
Turn in safety Contracts
* get Lab Composition Books
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HW: review Scientific Method
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Remind 101: @enginbio19
Get a composition book. review Rules
1. Paper Tower Lab
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HW: Write ups for Homework
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1. Biology Class Rules, Lab Safety Contract
2. Remind 101, Website
3. What is Engineering Biology?
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HW: Get signatures for rules and contract, get a lab composition book.