term+2+holiday+work

Here is the work for you to complete. Although, you should be focusing on other subjects that didn't have a mid-year exam, these tasks are important if you are going to cope as well as possible with the next part of the course. 3-4 hours minimum should be spent doing biology.


 * Compulsory work **
 * 1) complete your slomations, you can do this on your own or work as a group (add audios as well if you can), simply put your images into movie maker and adjust the timing. instruction for downloading images can be found on the slomations page
 * 2) complete the following worksheets from the student workbook-25(p98), 27(p101), 30(p106), 32(109) and 33(p110)
 * 3) complete the handouts on mutations (there were 4 of them)
 * 4) lastly, and the ** most important **, create a concept map that contains the following (1) DNA structure and replication (mutations), (2) gene expression and (3) meiosis, these are to be submitted into the work box on the 1st day back of term 3

Instructions for concept maps Create a list of ~10 words that are central to each of the areas (~30 words in total). Start with DNA replication, choose two words and link them with a meaningful phrase. Continue with the rest of the words. Then choose one of the words you have used and link it to DNA expression and continue from there (see below). Finally, add in words associated with Mutations.



write a song on any one of the concepts (I am giving a substantial prize to the best song written in unit 4), the song should be easy to sing and catchy read the course notes again and the relevant sections of the text book, answer questions frome ither source revise over the various concepts using your own methods read ahead the textbook sections on "gene regulation" and "genetic technologies and molecular tools"
 * Optional work **