LS7B Su A 2021 Kane Syllabus Updated June 19 (Last modified 2021-06-19-17-39) PDF

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Life Sciences 7B - 3: Genetics, Evolution, and Ecology Summer Session A 2021 – Dr. Tonya Kane Class Meeting Time: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday @ 9 AM - 10:50 AM Location: Online, Zoom links are posted on the main page of our CCLE site Required Materials: • Online Text: How Life Works by Morris, J et al. 3e, with LaunchPad (hard copy optional) • LaunchPad Website: Access LaunchPad through a link on the main page of our CCLE site • iClicker REEF access: an app-based system you will use to respond to questions during class

For advising or administrative issues, please contact the Life Sciences Core Education Office at [email protected] or at (310) 825-6614 to leave a voicemail, or reach out directly to our LS Core 7B contact Michelle Veintimilla at [email protected].

Welcome to Our Course How does life work? This profound question has inspired thinkers, inventors, and explorers throughout human history. It forms the basis for the study of agriculture, medicine, ecology, microbiology, and countless other fields in the life sciences. In this course, we will continue to explore this question, focusing on some of the fundamental processes underlying the evolution and interactions of all living organisms. Our exploration will begin by examining simple patterns of inheritance, as well as exploring gene interactions and their role in producing the variation we see in organisms that populate our planet. We will continue on to learn about processes and patterns of evolution and then move on to examine the ecological processes occurring on our planet. Although an entire lifetime of study, let alone one course, is not enough to form a complete answer to our question of how life works, our hope is that you will leave this course inspired to seek out the answers at every turn and equipped with the basic knowledge to launch your exploration of the awesome field of biology at UCLA.

Our Inclusive Learning Environment We value diversity and inclusion. We expect everyone to contribute to a respectful, welcoming, and inclusive environment to support the learning of all other members of the class, regardless of age, sex, gender identity, race, culture, sexual orientation, religion, ability, background, or other seen or unseen identities. If there are aspects of the instruction or design of this course that result in barriers to your inclusion or accurate assessment of achievement, please come talk to us. If you need academic accommodations based on a documented disability, please contact the Center for Accessible Education (CAE) at 310-825-1501 within the first two weeks of the Quarter to allow reasonable time to coordinate accommodations. CAE will assess all requested accommodations and communicate your approved accommodation with your Instructor. Please also confirm that your Instructor received your CAE letter and has adjusted online assignments and exams accordingly. www.cae.ucla.edu

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Class Culture and How We Learn Everyone involved in the course has the opportunity and ability to learn the central concepts covered in the course. You are all here with the goal of learning more about evolutionary, genetic, and ecological concepts. How we engage with others and what we do as individuals during the course has significant impact on how we all accomplish the course learning goals and objectives. The course has been designed to focus on learning objectives for each week – these are the skills or things you should be able to do after attending class meetings and doing lab, pre-class and post-class work. Learning objectives are outlined at the beginning of each weekly class meeting, so that you have a clear understanding of course expectations. With this in mind, we offer the following guidelines for interaction and participation during the course: Treat class time time with respect – We have limited time to interact with each other during class meetings. Some of our interactions will be done through the chat window on Zoom or breakout rooms. Come to class ready to learn, and stay engaged for the duration of class meetings. Your interactions with your classmates are important – The diversity represented among the students in this class provides exposure to an incredible array of opinions, perspectives, and problem-solving approaches. Every student has something to offer during class, labs, and study groups that will enrich the learning experience for all students. Be respectful of what everyone brings to help all students learn. Learning happens through productive struggles with course concepts – No instructor believes that simply because a student has heard words come out of their mouth, the student will automatically know everything. Some concepts in this course are more difficult than others. If you find some things are taking too much effort, please reach out. We are more than happy to provide help so you can move through any concepts that are challenging. Learning is a process – This course is designed so you can experience a learning path. Data has shown that multiple short-term encounters with course concepts over many days increases long-term learning and retention of material, compared to one extended learning session. You will first encounter course concepts with pre-class assignments designed to be foundational to your understanding. During and after class, you will have additional practice with learning objectives that are designed to help you achieve conceptual mastery of course content. While it is our commitment to provide the structure for the course, it is your commitment to follow the structure in order to contribute the most to your learning.

Our Learning Path Pre-Class Work: Assigned readings are given to help you build foundational knowledge that will be applied to inclass questions, labs, and group-work. Pre-class reading guides are provided to help focus your reading. Pre-class reading quizzes are a check on your grasp of the material before class.

In-class Work: Conceptual questions and group work on activities are used to help you practice applying foundational knowledge from pre-class assignments to solveproblems. Activities like this could include typing in the chat on Zoom, or joining breakout rooms with your peers during class.

Post-class Work: At the end of each week practice exam questions are assigned to help provide more experience with problems aligned to the course learning objectives. These problems are taken from old midterms to provide you with problemsolving practice similar to what is expected on exams.

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About Your Instructors Instructor: Dr. Tonya Kane Student Office Hours via Zoom: Mondays & Wednesdays 8-9AM, or by appointment Additional hours may be added and will be announced in class and via Announcements on CCLE. Email: [email protected] à Please include LS7B in the subject! Teaching Assistants (TAs): TAs are here to help you learn by facilitating class discussion and problem-solving during lectures, and leading lab sections. They also will contribute to the evaluation of your class assignments and grading. You can find details of who the TA is for each lab section, TAs’ office hour times, and all necessary Zoom links on your TA’s page within our course CCLE site. TA Name & Lab Sections

Email

Shomik Ati (Sections 1A & 1B)

[email protected]

Gabriela Medeiros de Pinho (Section 1C)

[email protected]

Alexis Tucker (Sections 1D & 1E)

[email protected]

Learning Assistants (LAs): We want to make sure that you have access to multiple individuals to reach out for help with any of your conceptual questions for the course. LAs are an integral part of our instructional team to help reach our goal of helping all students with learning and succeeding in the course. LAs are UCLA undergraduate students who have completed this course. They are here to help you learn by fostering class discussion and problemsolving during lab sections and Collaborative Learning Center hours. LAs are not responsible for evaluating your work or assigning grades.

What You will Learn in this Course There are several broad learning goals we will help you achieve by the end of this course. Specifically, you should be able to: ● Use deductive reasoning to solve problems about biological processes. ● Describe general trends in data presented in a table, chart, graphs, etc. ● Interpret the meaning of data as they relate to a particular biological process. ● Use experimental data to confirm or reject a hypothesis. ● Recognize the relationship of evolution to biodiversity and ecological processes ● Create simple models (drawings) based on written information or data about a biological process. ● Use model-based reasoning to predict responses to an environmental change. Additional topic-specific learning objectives will be provided each week on the LaunchPad website, reading guides, labs, and in the posted lecture slides on the CCLE course site. Learning objectives provide an overview of what you should be able to do on assessments in the course. Use the learning objectives to help you focus your pre-class reading, labs, and your studying.

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Course Schedule Week 1 June 21 – 25

Lecture Topics Meiosis & Mendel’s Laws Variations on Mendel - Non-disjunction Patterns of Inheritance

Week 2 June 28 – July 2

Lab Topics M, Tu: Lab 1 – Exploring Your World

W, Th: Lab 2 – Meiosis & Recombination

No class Monday – UCLA Holiday (Juneteenth) M, Tu: No Lab Meetings Lab 3 – Pedigrees (take-home lab) Genetic Linkage Gene Mapping & Genetic Variation

W, Th: Lab 4 – Genetics

* FRIDAY: MIDTERM 1 * Week 3 July 5–9

No class Monday – UCLA Holiday (4th of July) M, Tu: No Lab Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium Modes of Selection & Mechanisms of Evolution

W, Th: Lab 5 – Population Genetics

Applications of Hardy-Weinberg Week 4 July 12 – 16

Speciation & Phylogenetic Trees

M, Tu: Lab 6 – Biodiversity of Animals

Biodiversity Through Time Adaptive Radiations & Extinctions

W, Th: Lab 7 – Biodiversity of Plants

* FRIDAY: MIDTERM 2 * Week 5 July 19 – 23

Applications of Ecology

M, Tu: Lab 8 – Phylogenetic Trees

Demography & Population Ecology W, Th: Lab 9 – Ecology

Week 6 July 26 – 30

Species Interactions & Community Ecology

M, Tu: Lab 10 – Conservation

Ecosystem Ecology & Global Ecology W, Th: No Lab * FRIDAY: FINAL EXAM * NOTE: TOPICS ON THIS SCHEDULE ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. ANY CHANGES WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN CLASS AND/OR ON CCLE.

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Course Logistics Class Meetings: Our work during class meetings will be based on the topics listed in this syllabus, and any additional handouts, readings, or videos posted on the LaunchPad website, CCLE course site, or distributed through CCLE for class. We will give additional examples in the class that may not be from the text, but are chosen to help in understanding different concepts and applying various skills during the course. We will post lecture slides on CCLE the night before so they will be available for you to use during class. Please note that attendance in class is strongly encouraged and participation is an important part of the learning path for this course. We understand that there may be time-zone constraints or significant extenuating circumstances for some students; please contact us if this is the case so accommodations can be made. Pre-Class Reading Guides: Pre-class reading guides are provided on CCLE to help you navigate through the pre-class learning objectives. These are designed to guide you through the foundational information to prepare for the class and lab exercises each week. They are not meant to act as a study guide, but rather will be a useful reference as you work through problems in class. Completing these guides is optional, but highly recommended. LaunchPad: You will access LaunchPad through our CCLE course website. Details on each type of LaunchPad assignment are described below. All LaunchPad assignments must be completed on time in order to receive points. Because assignments are due throughout each week, it is a good idea to check LaunchPad at the beginning of each week to make sure you know when to complete all of your assignments. No late work will be allowed for the LaunchPad assignments. Please make an effort to complete LaunchPad assignments with plenty of time before the deadlines. Plan ahead! DO NOT wait until right before the deadline to complete an assignment in case of technical difficulties. Sometimes technical errors happen! If you have a technical issue, please solve the issue with Launchpad technical support before the deadline! Neither Launchpad technical support nor the instructors will be able to reopen any assignment after a deadline has passed due to late submission or technical errors. For technical issues, please contact LaunchPad technical support at 1-800-936-6899. Tech support is available Monday – Thursday 6AM – 12PM, Friday 6AM - 8PM, Saturday 8:30AM - 5PM, and Sunday 8:30AM - 8PM (all times PST). o

LaunchPad Pre-Class Review Questions (PCRQs): To help ensure that you are prepared for class, you will complete review questions on LaunchPad by 8AM before each class meeting beginning Monday of Week 1 and ending Wednesday of Week 6. These questions are graded based on correctness of your answers, but you will have two attempts for each set of questions. Each week, the total number of points for pre-class review questions will be scaled to your percentage out of 5 course points, this means that missing one question on an assignment does not result in the loss of one point in the course. The maximum number of PCRQ points you can earn in the course is 45, meaning you can miss up to 5 PCRQ points and still receive full credit in the course. This should account for any technical errors or extenuating circumstance that may result in you missing a PCRQ set.

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LaunchPad Practice Exam Questions (PEQs): To help you prepare for exams, we will provide practice exam questions on LaunchPad after class meetings throughout the course. These actual former exam questions will provide examples and serve as a resource to help prepare you for the exams. You will only have one opportunity to complete the questions and it is timed to help prepare you for a true exam situation. These are graded based on correctness of your answers. You should prepare for these as you would for an exam. For each set, the total number of points for practice exam questions will be scaled to your percentage out of 5 course points, this means that missing one question does not result in losing one point in the course. The maximum number of PEQ points you can earn in the course is

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45, meaning you can miss up to 5 PEQ points and still receive full credit in the course. This should account for any technical errors or extenuating circumstance that may result in you missing a PEQ set. o

LaunchPad Activities: In addition to the pre-class review questions (PCRQs) and practice exam questions (PEQs), you will have additional assignments that will be given through the LaunchPad website. These include assignments related to readings, animations, videos, and simulations. The total number of points from LaunchPad Activities will be scaled to your percentage out of 50 course points, this means that missing one question does not result in missing one point in the course. The maximum number of launchpad activity points you can earn in the course is 45, meaning you can miss up to 5 launchpad activity points and still receive full credit in the course. This should account for any technical errors or extenuating circumstance that may result in you missing a LaunchPad Activity assignment.

Participation: iClicker REEF is an app-based response system that allows you to respond to questions we ask during class. A large volume of education research suggests clickers can significantly increase your learning and retention of course concepts. You will need to obtain and create an iClicker REEF account if you do not already have one. It is important that you use the email associated with CCLE (check your CCLE profile to confirm) for your iClicker REEF account. Failure to do so may result in an inaccurate participation score. When you register you must choose your institution (University of California Los Angeles) and then search for the course: LS7B 2021 SUMMER Session A Kane We will begin using the iClicker REEF App during class meetings on Monday of Week 1. For each class meeting requiring participation (13 total), you will earn 5 participation points (all or nothing) by answering at least 75% of the questions during that day. We want to encourage you to try and do your best while practicing the skills outlined in the learning objectives, therefore the points are based on completion, not correct/incorrect answers. Everyone gets two “free” days of participation points in order to account for any technical difficulties or absences. You cannot receive more than the 65 points awarded for participation (i.e. if you have perfect attendance, additional points for “free” days will not be added to your final score). Because clickers are a tool for participation, in order to earn the points you must also be present during the Zoom class session. Any student that clicks for REEF points but is not on the Zoom participant list will have their points changed to zero for that day unless other accommodations have been requested. If you are in a time zone that makes it challenging to attend online synchronously, accommodations can be arranged. Please note: Clicking in for another student is cheating. If you are found to be clicking in for another student or having another student click in for you, you will both forfeit ALL clicker points for the quarter. Exams: You have two midterms and a final exam for the course, administered on the dates indicated in the course schedule. There will not be lecture on exam days. You must take the exams during the scheduled exam date/time window of 6AM to 9PM (Pacific Time) on exam days. Once you begin an exam, you will have a time limit of 2 hours for each midterm and 3 hours for the final exam. Midterm I will cover material from weeks 1-3. Midterm II will cover material from weeks 4-7. The final exam will be cumulative. Approximately 60% of the final will cover weeks 8-10 and the other 40% will be cumulative. The exams will be a mix of multiple choice and true/false questions, and are closely aligned to the weekly learning objectives that outline the skills we expect you to be able to do on an exam. The learning path is designed to help students be successful with the exams for the course. Material for the exams will be taken from lectures, problems that have been posted on LaunchPad, material from lab sections, and worksheets or clicker questions/problem sets done during class meetings. Focus on mastering these learning objectives (skills) rather than trying to memorize all of the course material. In the event that you must miss an exam due to a serious extenuating circumstance, you must contact your instructor as soon as is reasonably possible and be prepared to provide verification. The instructor will determine an alternate exam date or form of assessment to meet the learning objectives.

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Lab Sections: Lab sections are designed to: (1) Help reinforce many of the concepts you learn in class; (2) Provide opportunities for additional course related problems; (3) Give you the opportunity to ask questions, get feedback from TAs and LAs, and work together with your peers. Lab sections provide additional practice with course learning objectives, and are worth 15 points each week. The points may be earned for work done entirely during lab section, or from a combination...