BIOLOGY 101 ! GENERAL INFORMATION ! Fall 2008Website: http://www.idmb.tamu.edu/biology101/ TEXTBOOK- NEW THIS YEAR! Levetin & McMahon, Plants & Society 5 edn., 2007, McGraw-Hill. A CD containing many of the slidesthused in the course and valuable for note-taking will be packaged with the textbook. LAB MANUAL- Harris-Haller, Biology 101 Lab Manual,2 edn. 2009, Hayden-McNeil Publishing Co. ndLECTURE- MWF 9:10 to 10:00 a.m. in Biol. Sciences Bldg. East (BSBE) Room 115. Lecture notes will be posted at: http://www.idmb.tamu.edu/biology101/ Approximately 25 POPQUIZZES, each typically worth 1 to3 points, will be held in class without priornotice! As they are totally BONUS points, the instructor has NO obligation to provide any prior announcement of these quizzes, and therehere will be NO opportunities to make-up these quizzes. Attendance for the lectures IS NOT mandatory but absence means that theopportunity for extra credits from POPQUIZZES will be lost.LABORATORY- All lab sections meet in Heldenfels 305. Unlike lectures, attendance at the laboratories IS mandatory. There are no makeuplabs. If you miss lab, you must notify your instructor within two class days and provide documentation of a university authorized absence withinone week to be considered for a makeup assignment. See Lab Manual Appendix B for a 20 point bonus opportunity in lab:EXAMS - DO NOT FORGET YOUR STUDENT ID! Exams I, II and III will be from 9:10 to 10:00 a.m. in BSBE 115, except for studentswith disabilities. You may NOT take any back-pack, notes or headgear (e.g. caps) to your desk - leave them at the side or front of the room.Exam I, Monday Sept 22; Exam II Friday Oct 17; Exam III; Monday Nov 10. NOTE: Exam IV will be from 8:00 to 10:00 (2 hr) on Monday,December 8. EXAM REVIEW SESSIONS - 7:30 to 9:00 p.m.: Thursday Sept 18; Tuesday Oct 14; Thursday Nov 6 (all in BSBE 115). Thereview for the Final Exam (December 1) will be in normal class time and place. MISSED EXAM If you know you will miss an exam for auniversity approved reason, please contact Dr. Hall as soon as possible and in any case no less than 2 working days prior to the exam. If youmiss an exam, you must show written evidence within 1 week to substantiate the absence was for an accepted reason (section 7, Attendance,revised 2006 http://student-rules.tamu.edu/). The Lower Division Biology Program DOES NOT accept the Texas A&M UniversityExplanatory Statement of Absence Form as an excused absence. MAKE-UP EXAMS will NOT be rescheduled without instructor permissionand proof of an authorized absence. It is your responsibility to notify Dr. Hall of your absence, provide verification, and insure your name ison the sign-up list for the appropriate make-up exam. Make-up exams will only be offered on the following dates: (1) Thurs. Oct. 9; (2) Thurs.Oct. 30; (3) Thurs. Nov. 20. Make-up exams may consist of essay and short answer questions. All make up exams will be held at 5:30-6:30p.m in Heldenfels 100. DETERMINE YOUR GRADE AS FOLLOWS: Note: Of the total possible points (600), 170 will be earned in the Laboratory.LECTURE LAB3 lecture examinations, 100 points each 300 Lab Quizzes/writeups, 12 at 10 points each 1201 final examination (comprehensive) 130 Two laboratory reports at 15 points each 30Sub Total 430 Lab participation points 20 Sub Total 170To determine your grade: Add points scored for Exams I through IV; add total lab points. To this total add the total PopQuiz bonus points.Divide this total by 6 to get a % score. Normally, 90-100% = A; 80-89% = B; 70-79% = C and 60-69% = D.COMPUTER ACCESS INFORMATION- Please note that grade checks and exam challenges can only be made by computer application.Once you obtain a student ID with a universal identification number (UIN), then logon to http://gateway.tamu.edu/ to activate your Neo NetID.Grade information will be posted online on Vista/Blackboard. Use your NeoID to login at http://elearning.tamu.edu to access your grades. GRADE CHECKS & EXAM CHALLENGES - Requests for grade checks must be submitted via the Lower Division Biology Homepageat: http://www.bio.tamu.edu/ldi. You will be notified by email when a grade check is ready for pickup. Come to 315 Heldenfels and showyour I.D. to pickup a grade check. Exam challenges are submitted via an Exam Challenge Form at: http://www.bio.tamu.edu/ldi. All examchallenge forms will be forwarded to Dr. Hall for review.ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: – “An Aggie does not lie, cheat or steal or tolerate those who do”. Upon accepting admission to Texas A&MUniversity, a student immediately assumes a commitment to uphold the Honor code, to accept responsibility for learning, and to follow thephilosophy and rules of the Honor System. Students will be required to state their commitment on examinations, research papers, and otheracademic work. Ignorance of the rules does not exclude any member of the TAMU community from the requirements or the processes of theHonor System. For additional information please visit: http://www.tamu.edu/aggiehonor/.Misconduct in research or scholarship includes fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in proposing, performing, reviewing or reporting research.It does not include honest error or honest differences in interpretations or judgements of data. Texas A&M University students are responsiblefor authenticating all work submitted to an instructor. If asked, students must be able to produce proof that the item submitted is indeed thework of the student. Students must keep appropriate records at all times. The inability to authenticate one’s work, should the instructor requestit, is sufficient grounds to initiate an academic dishonesty case: http://www.tamu.edu/aggiehonor/Student%20Rules/definitions.htmlCopyright: The handouts used in this course are copyrighted. "Handouts" are all materials generated for this class, which include but are notlimited to syllabi, quizzes, exams, in-class materials, class notes on the web, review sheets, problem sets and copy packets. You do not havethe right to copy them unless you are expressly granted permission. As commonly defined, plagiarism consists of passing off as one's own theideas, words, writings, etc., which belong to another. In accordance with this definition, you are committing plagiarism if you copy the workof another person and turn it in as your own, even if you should have the permission of that person. Plagiarism is one of the worst