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Guide 1A Discovery & Cells

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Discovery Objectives

Course Success

Define the four course topics; explain how biology has a consumer, cultural, and citizenry context; and describe strategies you can use to improve learning within this course.

Science Discovery

List and describe the three aspects of science discovery; explain the basics of microscope use (microscopy), including history, magnification, and the use of stains; and distinguish between the four major types of tissues.

Cell Structures

Identify various organelles within a cell; match different cellular activities to specific organelles; and describe the structure of the plasma membrane including how it relates to diffusion.

Cell Lives

List the steps involved in taking a cell from the body and preparing it for examination under the microscope; provide examples of cells that have different structures related to their functions; and explain different cellular life stages, including mitosis, hypertrophy, differentiation, and apoptosis.

Discovery Quiz

Quiz Directions

 
Complete all four sections and take the quiz on Canvas.
 
Use the learning objectives above to guide your studying.

Discovery Media

Introduced in Science Discovery section of this guide:

In this section and the next three sections (webpages) of this Discovery & Cells Guide, you will be taking notes on the concepts that are covered.  At the end of the guide, you will upload these notes to Canvas as this guide’s media piece.  You can take notes digitally on a device or on a piece of paper that you digitally photograph and upload: your choice.

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Include in your notes:

  • concepts from all four sections (web pages) in this guide.

  • a combination of text, images, and icons.  Your notes may be mostly text, but some type of image and use of icons needs to be included.

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Media Directions

To be completed after taking the quiz on Canvas. 
 
Once you have completed your notes over all four sections in this guide, upload them to Canvas.  Your notes can be submitted as a PDF, a word document, a photo of the notes, or even a video.  Multiple assignment formats are supported.

Human Biology Portfolio

Portfolio Directions

Typically each week you will have about an hour’s worth of work on your Human Biology Portfolio that is due the Wednesday of Final Exam week (week 11).

This week, since you did the three “start BI 103 here” Canvas pages that took about an hour, there is no portfolio assignment.  You can look at those three pages about the course again, if you like:

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