February 10th, 2010 Ms.

Wolfe’s Biology Class Volume 4, Issue 1

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) 
but rather, "hmm.... that's funny...." Isaac Asimov 

WOLFE’S BIOLOGY CLASS These include:

Drosophila mutations

W
DNA Extraction
elcome to High School Biology! This year
DNA Sequencing with gel electrophoresis
will be an exciting exploration into not
These labs will help prepare us for the study of
just the study of life but the heart of
Biodiversity where we will be using the skills we
science itself, inquisitive observations,
learned in the above labs to analyze the differences
hypothesizing, and testing. We will have many
in genes of sea life collected on our San Diego Bay
opportunities through out the year to develop our
field trip!
own questions
about the world TECH TALK
around us and to
test those
questions through
the scientific
method.
J ust a few reminders about how we will be
sharing information as a class. Each week I
will be posting background reading and lab
preparation material on my website. If you have any
FINE FOCUS
Last week we finished up with questions about the work feel free to email me or
cell review and we are now twitter the questions to the class (#wolfebio10).
ready to move on to our first Your lab notebook blogs should be up and running
set of introductory labs for make sure to post your weekly bio-reflections here
Genetics. as well.