This strategy for authentic assessment provides educators with the opportunity to assess patterns in students’ academic progress, reflective thinking, and achievement over time.

Disciplinary literacy practices challenge the way students approach texts by providing the skills necessary for students to adopt a mind-set that allows them to think like the people who work in the respective content areas.  In thinking about your future classroom, how can you use disciplinary literacy to support your students’ academic achievement?  For full credit, please give specific, detailed examples of the strategies that you would use.

What amino acid sequence would be generated based on the following mRNA code: 5′ AUG  UCU  UCG  UUA  UCC  UUG 3′

BONUS Decode the following mRNA into protein using the 1 letter amino acid code. The correct answer is a message from me about how I think we all feel about the end of the semester! 5′ AUG CAU GAA CUU AUG UCU UAU GAG GCC CAC UAA 3′ !!!  

Which of the following metabolic processes takes place in the cytoplasm of the cell?

Which molecule shown contains a functional group that is able to store energy?  

In the figure above, why does the reaction rate plateau at a higher reactant (substrate) concentration?

10. [10 pts] Two cars start moving from the same point. One travels south at 48 mi/h and the other travels west at 20 mi/h. At what rate is the distance between the cars increasing two hours later?

When a red blood cell is placed in an hypotonic solution, which of the following will occur?

Please note that the exponent of e is -2x