Cells: Putting It All Together
A worksheet to push you to look at the organelles as an interconnected working
system and not just a list of biology vocabulary words.
Extra Credit: Aquaporins (Nobel Prize)
The "public information" article from the Nobel Web site about the Nobel Prize
in Chemistry 2003 shared by Peter Agre & Roderick MacKinnon for their
pioneering discoveries concerning the water & ion channels of cells. A
worksheet is included.
Extra Credit: Y Chromosome
Questions to accompany your reading, "The History of Men: Secrets of the Y
chromsome".
Extra Credit: Oswald Avery
Questions to accompany your reading, "Oswald Avery & the Search For The
Transforming Factor."
Extra Credit: Racing with Sam
"At first, Sam Berns looked as odd as all the kids whose pictures I had been
studying: big bald head, beaky nose, strangely undersize chin and mouth, blue
veins twisting beneath a translucent scalp..." Very moving reading from the NY
Times on one family's experience with progeria. Questions are included with
the article.
Extra Credit: One Family's Challenge: CDG
Article from Newsday on a rare recessive metabolic disorder affecting a family
on Long Island. Questions will be posted in the near future.
Extra Credit: Diet and Primate Evolution
Many characteristics of modern primates, including our own species, derive
from an early ancestor's practice of taking most of its food from the tropical
canopy. Interesting research on the relationship between diet & primate
evolution.
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Extra Credit: The Flower and the Fly
Long insect mouthparts and deep flower tubes have become so specialized that
each organism has become dependent on the other. Questions are included with
the article.
Extra Credit: Dying to See
Studies of the lens of the eye not only could reveal ways to prevent cataracts
but also might illuminate the biology of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other
diseases in which cells commit suicide.
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