BIO105 Problems

[KSoul]

Due to taking the Study.com Biology course, reading through all of this drama is wild. My sister and I loved the fun of the virtual Lab with Labster. My younger brother (15) also took the course through Study.com, finishing with high marks.

Side note: I appreciate the walk back on the UMPI statement @kidneysmasher. In frustration, we all can get a little heavy with our words. Glad to read all worked out for your wife.

[Mythwalker]

I had the option of BIO 105 or HPR 101 - Lifelong Wellness to complete Gen Ed 3C.

HPR 101 - Lifelong Wellness was AWESOME.  Very short modules - a little reading & short videos, with very brief milestones assessing personal wellness from a conceptual, rather than data-specific, approach.  The only holdup was 3 days of nutrition/food intake tracking, so you could get a start on that earlier if you know you're taking it.  The final has no wordcount; it's just a recap of the 9 dimensions of wellness, a short example/application of the dimensions, and then a short discussion of how you can apply what you learned.

The professor, Leo Saucier, is fantastic - very supportive & encouraging, quick to affirm milestones, very quick to grade the final.  Zero nitpicking in my experience.

I would absolutely encourage people to take this instead of BIO 105, if you have the option.

[ss20ts]

I had the option of BIO 105 or HPR 101 - Lifelong Wellness to complete Gen Ed 3C.

HPR 101 - Lifelong Wellness was AWESOME.  Very short modules - a little reading & short videos, with very brief milestones assessing personal wellness from a conceptual, rather than data-specific, approach.  The only holdup was 3 days of nutrition/food intake tracking, so you could get a start on that earlier if you know you're taking it.  The final has no wordcount; it's just a recap of the 9 dimensions of wellness, a short example/application of the dimensions, and then a short discussion of how you can apply what you learned.

The professor, Leo Saucier, is fantastic - very supportive & encouraging, quick to affirm milestones, very quick to grade the final.  Zero nitpicking in my experience.

I would absolutely encourage people to take this instead of BIO 105, if you have the option.

A lab science is required and that is why people are taking BIO105. Sounds like you had a lab science transfer in.

[Mythwalker]

I had the option of BIO 105 or HPR 101 - Lifelong Wellness to complete Gen Ed 3C.

HPR 101 - Lifelong Wellness was AWESOME.  Very short modules - a little reading & short videos, with very brief milestones assessing personal wellness from a conceptual, rather than data-specific, approach.  The only holdup was 3 days of nutrition/food intake tracking, so you could get a start on that earlier if you know you're taking it.  The final has no wordcount; it's just a recap of the 9 dimensions of wellness, a short example/application of the dimensions, and then a short discussion of how you can apply what you learned.

The professor, Leo Saucier, is fantastic - very supportive & encouraging, quick to affirm milestones, very quick to grade the final.  Zero nitpicking in my experience.

I would absolutely encourage people to take this instead of BIO 105, if you have the option.

Yep - already had one, so I didn't have to suffer what sounds like an awful experience.

[informix]

BIO-105, I please need help with the Monster Breeding and Pigeonetics PowerPoint slides, it has been returned again not getting those alleles explained the way it's supposed to be.

[ashkir]

BIO-105, I please need help with the Monster Breeding and Pigeonetics PowerPoint slides, it has been returned  again not getting those alleles explained the way it's supposed to be.

Ugh. I still hate bio 105. If they didn't change it. You need to indicate various ones. Capital letters are dominant lowercase is recessive. Dominant means more likely to get it.

Tail shape (C curly dominant | c straight recessive) 
Teeth (T sharp dominant | t round recessive)
Skin (G green dominant | g blue recessive)
Horn texture (H bumpy dominant | h smooth recessive)
Claw length (L long dominant | l short recessive)

In this example I created a female monster with curly tail, sharp teeth, green skin, smooth horn, and long claw. It ended up with the following genetics: CC, Tt, Gg, hh, Ll

Code:

Allele 1 Allele 2 Genotype Phenotype
C           c        CC        curly tail dominant
T           t        Tt        teeth sharp dominant
G           g        Gg        Green dominant
h           h        hh        Horn smooth dominant
L           l        Ll        Long Claw length dominant

Now to the offspring
The female monster I created above, I bred it with a male monster. The male Genotype was provided in the course material. Now I merged my genotype to find the odds, to get my ratio. The most notable difference is horn texture can be bumpy, where the mother isn't bumpy. This is because the male has an hh for smooth horn, and the daddy has bumpy H. 

Code:

Trait             Female Genotype    Male Genotype    Genotypic Ratio         Phenotypic Ratio
tail shape              CC                Cc                1CC:1Cc            1 curly:1 straight
teeth shape             Tt                Tt                1TT:2Tt:1tt        3 sharp:1 round
skin color              Gg                Gg                1GG:2Gg:1gg        3 green:1 blue
horn texture            hh                Hh                1Hh:1hh            1 smooth:1 bumpy
claw length             Ll                Ll                1LL:2Ll:1ll        3 long: 1short

[path_seeker]

I can't understand how people still take BIO105 at UMPI after repetitive recommendations on this forum, and on wiki. You have Sophia to finish it in 2-3 days, not even study.com mess. People are dumber than I thought.

[Getthatpaper]

Did anyone else take BIO105 and find the professor knit-picky and does not follow the rubric?

My wife completed 8 classes this term and BIO105 has taken the full eight weeks. She is literally on her 7th iteration of her milestone 2, but the professor has a very specific vision of what a graph looks like, but can not clearly write what that is. I've never seen my wife get mad, frustrated, or rude with a professor. This one has pushed her over the edge. 

For thought the last day of class is tomorrow and she can't submit her final until this last milestone is affirmed.

Anyone else take this class and have problems?

BIO 105 is like 10 classes in once... Take a lab class somewhere else if you can find an easier one.

good grief.

https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...tes?page=4

(This is the same guy that did EVERY SINGLE Sophia course just for the heck of it.)
(This is the same guy that would yawn with boredom if assigned a 200 page writing assignement)
(When ashir starts complaing, you can forget all the steps and move directly to DEFCON-1)

Nobody else has had problems with this course because NOBODY has taken this course at UMPI after Ashir. Lol.

We do a lot of hand-holding here at DF, and when we say take this course here, we MEAN to take this course here, as the other option could be up to 10x as hard. 

All colleges contain at least a few landmines, and your wife stepped on the biggest landmine they got at UMPI and had her leg blow off. After that, she continues to try to hop on one leg to get to the rest of the minefield, which, little does she know, is 100 miles long.

DROP THE COURSE

TAKE THE COURSE AT STUDY.COM

I understand this will mean battling the logical fallacy called sunk cost fallacy. 

If you have any more questions, refer to my hat.

I guess we should have done some more research. The problem is she has been affirmed on the other 5 milestones and her final is complete, just needs to be turned in. She sent an email to Cody and all he said was due the course survey. Lot of help he was. I guess if the instructor doesn't affirm it she'll faill it because of a graph that had zero instructions or isn't even in the rubric as a requirements.  I guess that's what happens when you take online courses in a small Northern Maine school with adjunct faculty as a part-time gig. 

I'll have her check out the study.com as a back-up

https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...#pid385995


Reference my agony as I failed the course because of this woman, not because of my ignorance, she failed to send out the labs in time I got them 4 weeks into the Session, she knitpicked EVERYTHING, btw I finished 10 courses in the time it took me to get to the final only to have her knitpick everything to where I couldnt submit or deal with her anymore and she failed me, ZERO help from CODY as well. I got permission to take the intro to chem and lab at sophia via labster via the help of a lovely fellow Degreeforum member    (thank you again!!) and breezed through it in about 3 days, had to take another class to replace the one there I wasn’t taking for residency I took Arab/Palestinian conflict with one of my favorites Prof. Z, and Aced it, and still no degree progress, so I reached out to Jessica and she confirmed after me asking literally if I had completed all major and minor requirements?? Im supposed to be doing the MAOL but havent been able to get my transcript from the institution that I have my undergrad…which would be the same school SMH

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I can't understand how people still take BIO105 at UMPI after repetitive recommendations on this forum, and on wiki. You have Sophia to finish it in 2-3 days, not even study.com mess. People are dumber than I thought.

In my own defense and to be fair, no one really could understand the horror that is that class unless you lived it. Lmao

[ss20ts]

Study isn't the only option. Sophia has a biology and a chemistry course. Both have a lab available. Human Biology was the easiest bio course I've ever had. I would recommend them over UMPI's science requirements. Same with the foreign language requirement. Take Spanish from Sophia. Save your blood pressure and your sanity.

[post*it*notes]

I didn't know better before starting BIO 105, but it did take me 3 weeks to complete because of all the back-and-forth corrections.
For any future students who find themselves in the same position- I looked ahead and found that each lab and milestone is what built the final, so once I had all the corrections made, I added it to my slideshow for the final and was able to submit my final fairly quickly with just a few sentences added here or there for clarification.
The instructor was pleasant to work with - quick with replies and helpful when I didn't understand how to build one of the graphs properly.