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| Objectives | |
| Schedule | |
| Syllabus | |
| Thu 08/21 |
Chapter 1 The Science of Biology |
| Tue 08/26 |
Chapter 3 The Chemistry of Life (pp. 41-44,46-59,61-66)
Chapter 3 xtra credit Will low-fat foods sway biotech sceptics? New Scientist 3/19/05
Chapter 3 xtra credit A Better French Fry New York Times 8/18/05 |
| Thu 08/28 |
Chapter 4 Cells
Chapter 4 xtra credit Are Males Genetically Doomed? Futurist Mar/Apr 05
Chapter 4 xtra credit The XX Brain and the XY Brain Psychiatric Times Aug 05 |
| Tue 09/02 |
Chapter 5 Energy and Life |
| Tue 09/09 |
Chapter 6 How Cells Acquire Energy
Chapter 6 xtra credit A Prayerbook's Secret: Archimedes Lies Beneath NPR 7/27/06 |
| Thu 09/18 |
Chapter 7 How Cells Divide (pp. 141-148,155-162) |
| Tue 09/23 |
Chapter 8 Foundations of Genetics
Chapter 8 xtra credit Huntington's Disease National Institutes of Health Human Gene Map
Chapter 8 xtra credit A Sweet Remedy for Huntington's? New Scientist 1/21/04 |
| Tue 09/30 |
Chapter 9 How Genes Work
Chapter 9 xtra credit Ear today, gone tomorrow? USA Today 6/19/03 |
| Tue 10/07 |
Chapter 10 Gene Technology
Chapter 10 xtra credit Mosquito with glowing gonads to help battle malaria Science News 10/10/05
Chapter 10 xtra credit Banteng clone euthanized The Scientist 4/11/03 |
| Thu 10/16 |
Chapter 2 Evolution and Ecology (pp. 22-26) |
| Tue 10/28 |
Chapter 13 Evolution and Natural Selection
Chapter 13 xtra credit Did Darwin get it wrong? Searching for the ancestor of Darwin's finches On Science 2005 |
| Tue 11/04 |
Chapter 14 How We Name Living Things
Chapter 14 xtra credit Birds that make teeth EurekAlert 2/21/06
Chapter 14 xtra credit NZ flatulence tax outrages farmers BBC News 6/20/03 |
| Tue 11/11 |
Chapter 30 Reproduction and Development (pp. 141-148,155-162)
Chapter 30 xtra credit Amphiprion ocellaris, Clown Anemonefish: protandrous hermaphroditism MarineBio
Chapter 30 xtra credit Social hierarchies: Size and growth modification in clownfish Nature 7/10/03 |
| Thu 11/20 |
Chapter 31 Ecosystems (pp. 731-733,735,742-743-748) |
| Tue 11/25 |
Chapter 32 Populations and Communities (pp. 703-704,714-728)
Chapter 32 xtra credit The Great Locust Mystery Colorado Millennium 2000 6/22/99 |
| Tue 12/02 |
Chapter 33 Animal Behavior, 34 Planet Under Stress
Chapter 33 xtra credit Waggle Dance Controversy Resolved By Radar ScienceDaily 5/12/05
Chapter 33 xtra credit As Autumn Approaches, This Chickadee's Brain Begins To Expand ScienceDaily 9/12/03
Chapter 33 xtra credit Reduce Fear of Flying Behavioral Associates 1/18/03
Chapter 33 xtra credit Pavlovian salmon The Independent 1/10/2004
Chapter 34 xtra credit Tuna on the endangered list International Herald Tribune 1/22/07 |
