On Thursday, 2 groups presented their unit projects. Since we have gone long with today's presentations, it's become apparant that we'll need 2 more classes to finish all the groups presentations. Therefore, we will not be having the unit test on Monday, we will have it on Wednesday (many will be absent on Tuesday for soccer, so we can't have it then). On Friday, 2 or 3 more groups will present, depending on how long they are. On Monday the remaining groups will present.

On Wednesday, students attended an OSAP presentation and then worked on their presentations in the library.

OnTuesday students reviewed for the unit test by playing a Jeopardy review game.

Note: there is a DNA review and a review on protein synthesis and biotechnology under class notes. Answers are not available to you at this time, but they can be made available later in the week.

Today we finished discussing restriction enzymes and also went over methylases and DNA ligase as tools used in biotechnology. There are some textbook questions you should try related to this material before you do your test on Monday. Tomorrow is a review class on the whole unit. Wednesday is a work period so you can finish up your work on your project which will be presented on Thursday or Friday of this week. If you have any quesions about your project, please write to me using the Comment function of this blog. Simply click on comment under this post and I will post your question and reply to it here. Good luck soccer players....go Redmen!

On Friday, groups picked their order for presenting their mini-lessons next week. We then began going over the biotechnology note. We discussed restriction enzymes. This topic will continue on Monday. If you haven't already read section 6.1 in the text, you should!

On Thursday, the class completed the performance task on protein synthesis and mutations.