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Baology 2022-2023 Syllabus (Session 2):

No. Date Topic Campbells Chapters
1 9/17 Histology and Digestion 40, 41
2 9/24 Digestion and Excretion 41, 44
3 10/1 Circulation and Respiration 42
4 10/8 Immunology 43
5 10/15 Endocrinology 45
6 10/22 Reproduction 46
7 10/29 Development 47
8 11/5 Nervous System I 48
9 11/12 Nervous System II 49
10 11/19 Sensory and Motor Systems 50
11 11/26 Animals Review No reading
12 12/3 Plant Diversity 29, 30
13 12/10 Plant Development and Histology 35
14 12/17 Plant Nutrition 36, 37
15 12/24 Plant Hormones 38
16 12/31 Plant Biotechnology and Biochemistry 39
17 1/7 Plants Review No reading
18 1/14 Animal Behavior 51
19 1/21 Ecology I 52, 53, 54
20 1/28 Ecology II + Review 55, 56

*Syllabus is tentative




Baology 2022 Syllabus (Session 1):

No. Date Topic/Reading New Concepts
1 4/30 Introduction to Biology, USABO, and Science
Chapter 1
How to read biology and bio questions
2 5/7 Introduction to Biochemistry
Chapters 2-5
AP Chem but in an hour (VSEPR, acid/base, Henderson Hasselbalch, etc.)
3 5/14 Cell Biology
Chapters 6, 7
Microscopy for Dummies
4 5/21 Cell Catabolism
Chapters 8, 9
Synthesis and Arrow Pushing
5 5/28 Cell Anabolism
Chapter 10
Metabolic enzyme mechanisms, More on Michaelis Menten
6 6/4 Cell Communication and REVIEW
Chapter 11
More metabolic enzyme mechanisms, Flux stuff
7 6/11 Cell Division
Chapters 12, 13
Common signaling pathways (IP3/DAG, cAMP, MAPKKK, etc.)
8 6/18 Classical Genetics
Chapters 14, 15
DNA repair mechanisms (BER, MMR, etc.), Holliday junctions and DSBs
9 6/25 Molecular Genetics
Chapters 16-18
Genetic Counseling 101 (Pedigree analysis, Bayes Theorem practice)
10 7/2 Molecular Biology Techniques
Chapter 20
Miscellaneous Cell Bio topics
11 7/9 Molecular Biology REVIEW
(No reading)
Extensive Mol Bio practice (para/pericentric, Cre-Lox, GAL4-UAS, etc.)
12 7/16 Evolutionary Biology
Chapters 22, 24
Replication/transcription/translation in eukaryotes/prokaryotes in detail
13 7/23 Evolutionary Genetics
Chapters 21, 23
Novel/Misc Mol Bio techniques, with practice
14 7/30 Introduction to Diversity
Chapters 25, 26
More Mol Bio practice problems
15 8/6 Microbiology
Chapters 19, 27
BLAST and Sequence alignment algorithms
16 8/13 Eukarya
Chapters 28, 31
Chi Square with practice, Population Genetics practice
17 8/20 Plants
Chapter 29, 30
GWAS, Metagenomics, More Pop Gen practice
18 8/27 Animals I
Chapter 32
UPGMA and Treebuilding practice
19 9/3 Animals II
Chapter 33
Crash Course Epidemiology
20 9/10 Evolution REVIEW
(No reading)
Problem solving with a Mol Bio/Stat focus

*Syllabus is tentative



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