BIOL 1406
General Biology I
Chemical bonding, macromolecules, membranes, diffusion and osmosis, energy and enzymes, cellular respiration, photosynthesis, chromosomes and the cell cycle, meiosis, and Mendel’s genetics. More of the course will follow.
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Chemical Bonding Lab
Build atoms shell by shell, then share, transfer and tug on electrons with Bohr models. Seven guided stations run from energy shells to covalent, ionic and hydrogen bonds, and the Van der Waals grip that holds a gecko to glass.
Playable nowMacromolecule Builder
Build the four macromolecule classes from real skeletal structures. Guided lessons take you through dehydration synthesis and hydrolysis one bond at a time.
Playable nowMembrane Discovery Lab
Drag oxygen, water, glucose and ions across a phospholipid bilayer to see what gets through, and why. Then add transport proteins and watch diffusion play out across a concentration gradient.
Playable nowDiffusion & Osmosis Discovery Lab
Predict first, then watch the molecules. Six guided stations follow diffusion, osmosis, the fluid mosaic, transport proteins, animal and plant cells in different solutions, and bulk transport.
Playable nowOxidative Phosphorylation Lab
Follow electrons through redox reactions, build a proton gradient, and make ATP. Seven guided stations connect oxidative phosphorylation with glycolysis and the citric acid cycle.
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BIOL1406 Unit 3 Ch08: Energy & Enzymes
Review what we did in class by doing it yourself: lift a coaster car, join two sugars, spend and recharge ATP, push a molecule over the energy hill, build an enzyme, and switch a pathway off with its own end product.
Playable nowBIOL1406 Unit Exam III Ch09: Cellular Respiration
Review what we did in class by doing it yourself: pass electrons in redox reactions, pump protons uphill and let them run back through ATP synthase, follow glucose through glycolysis and the citric acid cycle, tally the ATP, take the fork at pyruvate when oxygen runs out, and read a patient’s metabolite panel.
Playable nowBIOL1406 Unit Exam III Ch10: Photosynthesis
Review what we did in class by doing it yourself: compare photons across the spectrum, open and close the stomata, read absorption and action spectra, flip the respiration equation, run the light reactions in a thylakoid, and pay the cost of one G3P in the Calvin cycle.
Playable nowBIOL1406 Unit Exam IV Ch12 Part 1: Chromosome Basics
Review what we did in class by doing it yourself: label a DNA double helix and build its partner strand, compare genome, chromosome and gene, pack DNA into chromosomes, sort a karyotype, track alleles on homologs and sister chromatids, and describe cells with n and 2n.
Playable nowBIOL1406 Unit Exam IV Ch12 Part 2: Cell Cycle & Mitosis
Review what we did in class by doing it yourself: take one cell with three homologous pairs around the cell cycle in 3D, copy its DNA, capture the chromosomes, bring them to the plate, pull the sisters apart, and compare cytokinesis in animal and plant cells.
Playable nowBIOL1406 Unit Exam IV Ch13 Part 1: The Process of Meiosis
Review what we did in class by doing it yourself: follow one cell through meiosis in 3D, pair the homologs and cross over, separate homologs and then sisters, end with four haploid cells, then run mitosis and meiosis side by side and identify the division from drawings.
Playable nowBIOL1406 Unit Exam IV Ch14 Part 1: Mendel & the Monohybrid Cross
Review what we did in class by doing it yourself: repeat Mendel’s purple × white pea cross from the P generation to the F2, find the 3 : 1 pattern, follow two alleles through meiosis into gametes, build Punnett squares, and use a testcross to reveal a hidden genotype.
Playable nowBIOL1406 Unit Exam IV Ch14 Part 2: The Dihybrid Cross
Review what we did in class by doing it yourself: tell a monohybrid from a dihybrid cross, place two genes on two homologous pairs, follow both pairs through meiosis to find a dihybrid’s four gametes, repeat Mendel’s two-character pea cross to the F2, and build and read the 16-box Punnett square.
Playable nowBIOL1406 Unit Exam IV Ch14 Part 4: Linked Genes & Beyond Mendel
Review what we did in class by doing it yourself: follow two linked genes through meiosis and see what crossing over does, meet incomplete dominance and codominance, build blood types from the three ABO alleles, breed mice to see epistasis, compare polygenic inheritance with pleiotropy, grow clones in different soils, and read a pedigree.