Quiz on viruses, know these terms.

What are four main types of microbes?
Name the parts of a virus
Explain what is meant by the species specific nature of virus
What is a  lytic virus, definition, examples
What is a lysogenic virus, definition, examples
Herpes simplex is lysogenic.  What can cause it to come out of dormancy?
Explain the term: immuno-privileged site.  Why do we even have immune -privileged sites


To do the worksheet up to number 17: use these notes
Introduction to Microbiology Notes

Edits to our microbiology notes: addendum for vocab

RETROVIRUS - an RNA virus
IMMUNOPRIVILEGED SITE - a part of the mammalian body which does not admit the immune cells because if it did, then the damage to the body part would be worse than being infected.

examples of immunoprivileged sites:  
1. BRAIN, SPINAL CORD, NERVES,
 2. UTERUS during pregnancy
3.  HAMSTER CHEEK POUCHES

lytic cycle animation and summary

the following notes are copyright to Zack Smith and retrieved from https://firmitas.org/Viruses.html

STEPS TO THE LYTIC CYLE: memorize AESAR

• Attachment
• Entry & degradation of host's DNA
• Synthesis of new viruses 
  • duplication of virus' genetic material
  • creation of new virus parts
• Assembly of parts into new viruses
• Release of new viruses

steps to the lysogenic cycle:  memorize AEIM

• Attachment
• Entry (no degradation of host DNA)
• Integration using integrase enzyme
• Mitosis
• Host+virus DNA duplicated
• cytokinesis
• A virus that uses the lysogenic life cycle is termed either a provirus or prophage. What causes various proviruses to shift to the lytic cycle is not completely understood, but in some cases stress is the stimulus.

Microbiology Introduction

Today you will go over the Introduction to Microbiology Notes, which cover Virus, and Monerans, with a mention of unicellular fungi.  You will also be given our Microbial Wine and Cheese assignment.  due date TBA. You will be given a worksheet to go over the concepts from our notes.  Work through this next period as a review.

Also,  our virus in a box assignment: below:

Make a model of a virus or bacterium of your choice.  Make it out of any material.  It must fit within a shoebox. 

the model:  10
it is complete and presented well: 4
the write up is on the outside of the shoebox:  6 marks:

bonus marks for the best three assignments.


   on the sides of the shoebox: 
side 1:  name of the virus or bacterium and a description
side 2:  disease that it causes in humans
side 3:  what is your name, draw a picture of yourself and describe a disease you had in the past (not the same disease that is in the box.
side 4:  a picture of the virus.

Geological Time Presentation

Download it here

Orphan Wildlife presentation.

Monday Afternoon, some very special guests will be visiting Gladstone Library:

Their mandate, quoted from their website is:

"Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society is a non-profit organization whose volunteers are dedicated to public education and the rehabilitation and release of injured and orphaned birds. O.W.L. became a Society in January 1985 (Registration No. S-19879). O.W.L. is licensed through Fish and Wildlife, now known as the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations.
O.W.L. is on call seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. Public tours are available daily in July and August and every Saturday and Sunday from September to June between 10:00am and 3:00pm.
The facility specializes in raptors (i.e. eagles, falcons, hawks and owls). Birds of prey patients at O.W.L. number over four hundred each year and as O.W.L.’s facilities have expanded, so has the intake. Primary care for injured birds (i.e. fluid injections, tube feeding, and initial treatment of broken bones to stabilize) is administered by staff. Veterinary care (i.e. surgery involving the pinning of fractures, radiographs and amputations) is contributed by local clinics such as Huff Animal Hospital, Richmond Animal Hospital, and Tsawwassen Animal Hospital."

Notes on evolution. Remember to go to the library after lunch for Owls

Quiz on monday

on these notes:
evolution

monday print up the notes on how evolutionary change occurs:

How evolutionary change occurs

also powerpoints on
punctuated equilibrium
natural selection