Homework is listed at the bottom of the blog if you just want to get right to it.
Today we turned in the self-graded Free Response Questions. We then went over the Ecology Test and started Test Corrections. The requirements for getting credit for the corrections is:
You may earn up to ½ point for each missed question.
Test Corrections are due at 3:05 ONE WEEK from the first day test corrections are available. Test corrections are done on your own time: during tutorial, A lunch or before school.
Tests and Scantron forms are not allowed to leave the classroom. Parts A and B (below) must be written down in the AP Bio classroom, but Part C may be completed at home.
A. Record the number of the missed question and the exact wording of the question.
B. Write the wording of the CORRECT answer (do NOT write the incorrect answer).
C. Find a source for the information. This can be in your textbook, review book, or a reliable on-line source. Your friends will not be accepted as a source, nor will I.
a. Provide a quote or excerpt from the source that has the necessary information
b. Reference the source. I must be able to find it myself.
All parts listed above must be included to receive any points back for your test corrections!
The homework tonight is to go to the links below and read the 4 articles, then answer the questions that follow. Our next unit is on Personalized Medicine.
A Roller Coaster Chase for a Cure
1. How do cells become cancerous?
2. Why was the first trial of a drug that attacked B-RAF destined to fail?
3. Why was PLX4032 better than the earlier version of a B-RAF drug?
After Long Fight, Drug Gives Sudden Reprieve
4. Would you be willing to take part in a clinical trial of an new drug if you had advanced melanoma? Why or why not?
A Drug Trial Cycle: Recovery, Relapse, Reinvention
5. What was the main obstacle to PLX4032's success as a cure for melanoma?
6. Explain the role of pharmaceutical companies in driving the direction of research on new drugs.
7. Why are melanoma researchers pushing so hard for a "combination trial?"
New Drugs Stir Debate on Rules of Clinical Trials
8. Why did some of the doctors remain committed to the clinical trial protocol of keeping a control group and not giving the “wonder drug” to them?
9. Why did some of the doctors balk at the clinical trial protocol and want to break this tradition?
10. If you were the doctor what would you have done and why — work within the clinical trials as designed or give everyone the experimental drug?
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