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Dates Week and Topic

BEGIN Mon., Jan. 12

END Sun., Jan. 18

 Week 1 -- Orientation

BEGIN Tues., Jan. 20

END Mon., Jan. 26

 Week 2, Chapter 1 -- Can Science Cure the Common Cold? Intro to the Scientific Method

BEGIN Tues., Jan. 27

END Mon., Feb. 2

 Week 3, Chapter 2 -- Are We Alone in the Universe? Water, Biochemistry, and Cells

BEGIN Tues., Feb. 3

END Mon., Feb. 9

 Week 4, Chapters 3 and 4 (partial) -- Is it Possible to Supplement Your Way to Better Health

BEGIN Tues., Feb. 10

END Mon., Feb. 16

 Week 5, Chapter 5 -- Life in the Greenhouse: Photosynthesis and Climate Change

BEGIN Tues., Feb. 17

END Mon., Feb. 23

Week 6, Chapter 13 -- Prospecting for Biological Gold: Biodiversity and Classification
*END OF UNIT*

BEGIN Tues., Feb. 24

END Mon., Mar. 2

Week 7, Chapter 14 -- Is the Human Population Too Large? Population Ecology

BEGIN Tues., Mar. 3

END Mon., Mar. 9

Week 8, Chapter 15 -- Conserving Biodiversity: Community and Ecosystem Ecology
*END OF UNIT*

BEGIN Tues., Mar. 10

END Fri., Mar. 13

Week 9, Chapter 6 -- Cancer: DNA Synthesis, Mitosis, and Meiosis

BEGIN Tues., Mar. 24

END Mon., Mar. 30

Week 10, Chapter 7 -- Are You Only as Smart as Your Genes? Mendelian and Quantitative Genetics

BEGIN Tues., Mar. 31

END Mon., Apr. 6

 Week 11, Chapter 8 -- DNA Detective: Complex Patterns of Inheritance and DNA Fingerprinting

BEGIN Tues., Apr. 7

END Mon., Apr. 13

 Week 12, Chapter 9 -- Genetically Modified Organisms: Gene Expression, Mutation, and Cloning
*END OF UNIT*

BEGIN Tues., Apr. 14

END Tues., Apr. 21

 Week 13, Chapter 10 -- Where Did We Come From? The Evidence for Evolution

BEGIN Tues., Apr. 21

END Mon., Apr. 27

 Week 14, Chapter 11 -- An Evolving Enemy: Natural Selection

BEGIN Tues., Apr. 28

END Tues., May 5

Week 15, Chapter 12 -- Who Am I? Species and Races
 *END OF UNIT* and *END OF CLASS*

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