UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN – WASHINGTON COUNTY

BIO 109 – CONCEPTS OF BIOLOGY

FALL SEMESTER 2004

Instructor: Dr. Toye Ekunsanmi

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

Office:-Room 254. Lab:-Room 245

Phone#:- 262-335-5244

Lab Manual. Biology Laboratory Manual 8^th Edition by Sylvia Mader

The following proficiencies will be addressed in Bio 109:

1. Analyze, synthesize, evaluate and interpret information and ideas.

2. Interpret graphs, tables and diagrams.

3. Read and listen with comprehension and critical perception.

4. Develop a large and varied vocabulary.

Attendance:

Regular, prompt attendance is required in both lecture and lab. If you do miss a class or lab, it is your responsibility to obtain any handouts and information you missed. To make up tests and lab exams after absence, prior arrangements should be made, except in cases of serious emergencies.

Supplies: Every students is expected to have a lab notebook (science notebook), drawing papers, pen, pencils and a set of colored pencils. File folders (if used) must be attached to loose sheets of paper with a string.

Test questions will be in form of multiple choice, essay types, True or False, Matching etc. Lab Tests will be based on performances and results of previous lab activities, as well as related questions.

Points awarded for items on each test will be indicated against them. For each assignment or Lab. Exercise, a check will be given for satisfactory completion, check plus for exceptional work, or check minus for work lacking in obviously important aspects, after correction. If a student scores checks in about 90% of the assignments or exercise, full points will be given for that aspect. For example, a student who scores a check in nine out of, say ten exercises, will earn the full 100 points for lab exercises.

There will be many opportunities for extra credits. They will be made available through attendance of relevant seminars, external lectures, extra class assignments, and answering of some questions orally in class

Course grades will be based on the results obtained in the following:

Class Assignments ------------------ 50 Points

Hour Exams (2) --------------------- 150 " (75 each)

Lab tests (2) -------------------------150 " (75 each)

Quizzes --------------------------- 50. "

Final Lab Exam ----------------------- 75 "

Final Exam --------------------------- 75 "

Total = 550

Letter grades will be given only at midterm* and at the end of the semester based on percentages computed from the above outline, as follows.

The midterm grade will be based on the percentage earned until the end of that period.

95 - 100 A 70 - 74 C

90 - 94 A- 65 - 69 C-

85 - 89 B+ 60 - 64 D

80 - 84 B 50 - 59 D-

75 - 79 B- Below 50 F

BIO 109: TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF LECTURES AND LABS

TEXT: Biology by Sylvia Mader. 8^th edition. McGraw-Hill

Lab. Manual: Laboratory Manual for Biology by Sylvia Mader 8^th ed.