1. Welcome to Science 3/9/2012
Answer the Question of the Day that is on your paper. Circle the correct answer.
Today’s Schedule
1. Pass back & review lab test
2. Experiment of the Day
3. Question of the Day
4. Review Asexual Reproduction
5. Sexual Reproduction
6. Mitosis v. Meiosis Activity

2. Question of the Day
Hunter found some termites in a wooden board sitting in his backyard, so he sprayed some insecticide on the board to kill the termites. Hunter noticed that about 95% of the termites died, but 5% survived. What is the most likely explanation for this?
A. The living termites had genes that the dead termites did not have.
B. The living termites knew that Hunter was going to spray the insecticide, so they camouflaged themselves.
C. The living termites were a different species than the dead termites.
D. The living termites were males and the dead termites were females.

3. Asexual Reproduction Review
What is asexual reproduction?
One parent produces two new, genetically identical organisms.

4. Asexual Reproduction Review
What are some organisms that can reproduce asexually?
Plants, simple organisms, and some complex organisms.

5. Asexual Reproduction Review
What are the types of asexual reproduction?
Binary fission, budding, regeneration, and parthenogenesis

6. The Big Picture
Asexual reproduction limits the spread of different characteristics through a species and only allows for genetic continuity.
This can be good or bad for the organism. It all depends on the environment.

7. Welcome to Science 2/7
Sit with your lab group and get out your sexual reproduction notes that we began on Friday.
Today’s Schedule
1. Schedule for the week
2. Question of the Day
3. Review Sexual Reproduction
4.. Mitosis v. Meiosis Lab

8. Question of the Day
Both paramecia and fish live in a shallow pond. The paramecia usually reproduce asexually. The fish reproduce sexually. Suppose the environmental conditions in the lagoon change. What advantage will the sexually reproducing fish have?
A. sexual reproduction decreases the genetic variability in the fish populations.
B. Sexually reproducing fish produce offspring that are identical to the parents.
C. Sexual reproduction limits the spread of harmful characteristics in fish populations.
D. Sexual reproduction in fish allows populations to adapt to new conditions over fewer generations.

9. Video of the Day
Video -- Bighorn Sheep Competition -- National Geographic

10. Sexual Reproduction
How is sexual reproduction different than asexual reproduction?
Sexual reproduction produces a new organism when sex cells from two parents combine to make a new organism.

11. Production of Cells A human body cell has 46 total chromosomes.
Chromosomes- parts of a cell that store the hereditary information that is passed on

12. How do we get new cells?
Cells are alive. Therefore, cells have a life cycle
Mitosis (cell division)- process by which a cell nucleus divides to form two identical cells
Animation: Mitosis

13. How do organisms produce sex cells?
Remember, a human body cell has 46 total chromosomes.
How many chromosomes would there be when two human sex cells combine?
List of organisms by chromosome count
Human sex cells can only have total chromosomes.

14. How do we produce sex cells?
Meiosis- the process of cellular division that produces sex cells.
Meiosis happens in the reproductive organs of plants and animals. Meiosis: An Interactive Animation
Animation: How Meiosis Works

15. Meiosis v. Mitosis

16. Fertilization
S.R. starts with the formation of sex cells and ends when one sex cell joins another and a new organism is begun.
Fertilization- the joining of an egg and sperm

17. The Big Picture Sexual Reproduction involves two organisms.
Each parent organism passes their traits on to the offspring.
The offspring is born with a combination of traits from its parent.
This combination of traits will either increase or decrease the offspring's chances of survival.

18. Mitosis v. Meiosis Lab
1. On the back of your notes you are going to create models of the process of mitosis and meiosis.
2. First, use your text book to create a sketch of mitosis and meiosis in the correct locations of your paper.
3. Second, you will create a 3-D model of mitosis and meiosis using clay.
4. In your model, include all of the important details of the cells.

19. Mitosis v. Meiosis Lab
Everyone will fill in the lab sheet, help in creating the models, and answer the questions.
After finishing the lab sheet create a model of all of the following:
A hydra budding
A Sea star regenerating a arm
A bacteria undergoing binary fission