Today students worked on their cell respiration maps and then we went over anaerobic respiration. Please have all the textbook questions related to aerobic cellular respiration done for homework for Friday. The question numbers are listed under current "homework" at the right.

Today we went through the electron transport chain and viewed several on-line animations of this process. This is a difficult part of cellular respiration to understand, so if you were absent today, you must be sure to read this section in the textbook and get extra help. Viewing the animations is also helpful. I can be available for a mini-lesson on this on Friday at lunch if there is enough interest. PS: there is a large group of textbook questions to do (they can be found at the end of the electron transport chain note). These will be discussed on Thursday.

Today we went over pyruvate oxidation and the Kreb's cycle. Here are some animations that will help you to understand the first 3 stages of cellular respiration.
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072507470/student_view0/chapter25/animation__how_glycolysis_works.html
http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/Bio231/glycolysis.html
http://www.wiley.com/legacy/college/boyer/0470003790/animations/tca/tca.htm
http://www.wiley.com/college/pratt/0471393878/student/animations/citric_acid_cycle/index.html
http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/Bio231/krebs.html

If you have Powerpoint on your home computer, here is a slideshow on cellular respiration that you may find useful. It contains a little more detail than you need to know for this course, but there are some good graphics to show the various pathways of cell resp.
Powerpoint slideshow

Please remember to print the cellular respiration notes for Monday.

Today the class wrote the biochemistry test. Absent students will write it on Monday. The four students who've been away all week will write it on Tuesday. The enzyme lab report is due on Monday. If you have any questions about it, please feel free to post me a comment through the blog. If you'd like to provide your e-mail address I can write you directly, otherwise I will post an answer through the blog as a comment. Have a great weekend!

Today we decided to have the test in tomorrow's class....half the class was absent today. So, be ready to write the test in class Friday. Instead of the test, we went through the first note related to cellular respiration (Cellular Respiration Overview). We also went through the first stage of cellular respiration, glycolysis. Please note that all the notes related to cellular respiration are posted now. You should print these before Monday's class. Happy studying!