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| Objectives | |
| Schedule | |
| Syllabus | |
| Thu 08/21 |
Chapter 1 Introduction: Themes in the Study of Life |
| Tue 08/26 |
Chapter 2 The Chemical Context of Life, 3 Water and the Fitness of the Environment
Chapter 2 xtra credit Scientists prove how geckos stick, unlock secrets to making artificial gecko glue EurekAlert 8/26/02
Chapter 2 xtra credit Sticking with gecko glue HERO Jun 2003
Chapter 3 xtra credit Reverse Osmosis Moves Forward. Environmental Health Perspectives Jan 2005 |
| Thu 08/28 |
Chapter 4 Carbon and the Molecular Diversity of Life, 5 The Structure and Function of Macromolecules
Chapter 4 xtra credit GM fuels ethanol debate Chicago Tribune 2/6/06
Chapter 5 xtra credit New risk from trans fat Consumer Reports on Health Oct 05
Chapter 5 xtra credit The Murky World of High-Fructose Corn Syrup Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts Fall 01
Chapter 5 xtra credit Carb-Loading Conundrum Joe Weider's Muscle & Fitness Hers Apr 04 |
| Tue 09/02 |
Chapter 6 A Tour of the Cell |
| Thu 09/04 |
Chapter 7 Membrane Structure and Function
Chapter 7 xtra credit Cramps Backpacker Sept 04 |
| Tue 09/09 |
Chapter 8 An Introduction to Metabolism |
| Thu 09/11 |
Chapter 9 Cellular Respiration |
| Thu 09/18 |
Chapter 10 Photosynthesis
Chapter 10 xtra credit A Prayerbook's Secret: Archimedes Lies Beneath NPR 7/27/06 |
| Tue 09/23 |
Chapter 11 Cell Communication
Chapter 11 xtra credit U.S. discoverers of Viagra principle get Nobel Prize CNN 10/12/98 |
| Thu 09/25 |
Chapter 12 The Cell Cycle, 13 Meiosis and Sexual Life Cycles
Chapter 12 xtra credit Centrosome cycle studies reveal promising candidates for anti-cancer drug design Breast Cancer Res. 2003
Chapter 13 xtra credit Are Males Genetically Doomed? Futurist Mar/Apr 05
Chapter 13 xtra credit The XX Brain and the XY Brain Psychiatric Times Aug 05 |
| Tue 09/30 |
Chapter 14 Mendel and the Gene Idea |
| Thu 10/02 |
Chapter 15 The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance
Chapter 15 xtra credit The Effect of Female Hormone Fluctuations on the Incidence of Trisomy in Humans FGCU 98 |
| Tue 10/07 |
Chapter 16 The Molecular Basis of Inheritance
Chapter 16 xtra credit Telomerase's New Talent Science Now 8/17/05 |
| Thu 10/09 |
Chapter 17 From Gene to Protein
Chapter 17 xtra credit Ear today, gone tomorrow? USA Today 6/19/03 |
| Thu 10/16 |
Chapter 18 Regulation of Gene Expression |
| Thu 10/23 |
Chapter 19 Viruses, 20 Biotechnology
Chapter 19 xtra credit Stem Cell Research Basics: Early Stem Cells U of Kansas Medical Center 2006
Chapter 20 xtra credit Mosquito with glowing gonads to help battle malaria Science News 10/10/05
Chapter 20 xtra credit Dolly Was Lucky Science News 01 |
| Tue 10/28 |
Chapter 21 Genomes and Their Evolution, 22 Descent with Modification
Chapter 21 xtra credit Stem Cell Transplant Can Grow New Immune System ScienceDaily 11/24/07
Chapter 22 xtra credit Did Darwin get it wrong? Searching for the ancestor of Darwin's finches On Science 2005 |
| Thu 10/30 |
Chapter 23 The Evolution of Populations
Chapter 23 xtra credit Looks Matter Science News 10/1/05 |
| Tue 11/04 |
Chapter 24 The Origin of Species, 25 The History of Life on Earth
Chapter 24 xtra credit Origin of the Kaibab Squirrel Creation Research Society Quarterly 6/5/89
Chapter 25 xtra credit Redrafting the Tree of Life Science Now 9/8/04 |
| Thu 11/06 |
Chapter 26 Phylogeny and The Tree of Life |
| Thu 11/13 |
Chapter 28 Protists
Chapter 28 xtra credit Sheep bacteria widen diet of cattle Science News 6/6/98
Chapter 28 xtra credit Unraveling the secrets of red tide MIT news 8/30/07 |
| Tue 11/18 |
Chapter 29 Plant Diversity I: How Plants Colonized Land, 30 Plant Diversity II: The Evolution of Seed Plants
Chapter 30 xtra credit Yes, We'll Have No Bananas Common Dreams NewsCenter 7/19/03 |
| Thu 11/20 |
Chapter 31 Fungi, 32 An Introduction to Animal Diversity
Chapter 31 xtra credit Same-sex fungi can mate The Scientist 4/26/05
Chapter 31 xtra credit Mycorrhizae, Voles, Owls, Trees and Man Daniel B. Wheeler 97
Chapter 31 xtra credit Biggest living thing; Huge mushroom in Oregon Extreme Science
Chapter 32 xtra credit Strange Creatures - A Burgess Shale Fossil Sampler National Museum of Natural History |
| Tue 11/25 |
Chapter 33 Invertebrates
Chapter 33 xtra credit The humble leech's medical magic BBC News Online 7/2/04 |
| Tue 12/02 |
Chapter 34 Vertebrates
Chapter 34 xtra credit Is it true turtles breathe through their butts? The Straight Dope 11/16/01 |
| Thu 12/04 |
Chapter 27 Bacteria and Archaea
Chapter 27 xtra credit Swamp Gas Mystery Solved Science Now 8/24/05
Chapter 27 xtra credit NZ flatulence tax outrages farmers BBC News 6/20/03 |
