Winogradsky columns: Microbial ecology in the classroom

To accompany the lecture series Changing Planet: Past, Present, Future.

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To accompany the short film The Day the Mesozoic Died

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The Day the Mesozoic Died

To accompany the short film Got Lactase? The Co-evolution of Genes and Culture

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Got Lactase? The Co-evolution of Genes and Culture

To accompany the short film Evolving Switches, Evolving Bodies

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Evolving Switches, Evolving Bodies

To accompany the short film Natural Selection and Adaptation

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Natural Selection and Adapation

To accompany the short film The Birth and Death of Genes

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The Birth and Death of Genes

To accompany the short film Natural Selection in Humans

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Natural Selection in Humans

What is My Carbon Footprint?

To accompany the lecture series Changing Planet: Past, Present, Future.

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Stem Cells and Diabetes

To accompany the lecture series Potent Biology: Stem Cells, Cloning, and Regeneration.

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Download the Pulse-Chase Primer as a PDF file or a Word document

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Download the Stem Cell Differentiation Review Game as a PDF file or a Word document

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Download Microarrays and Stem Cells as a PDF file or a Word document

Download Stem Cells and Diabetes: The Present as a PowerPoint presentation

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The Mosquito Life Cycle

To accompany the lecture series Viral Outbreak: The Science of Emerging Disease.

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Biodiversity and Evolutionary Trees—An Activity on Biological Classification

To accompany the lecture series Exploring Biodiversity: The Search for New Medicines.

Construct evolutionary trees by sorting seashells.

Go to the online activity.

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Download the shell cards as a PDF file (color or black/white).

Download the DNA comparison activity as a PDF document

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Survival of the Fittest—Battling Beetles

To accompany the lecture series Evolution: Constant Change and Common Threads.

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Download the Selection Coefficient Excel workbook.

Survival of the Fittest—Variations in the Clam Species Clamys sweetus

To accompany the lecture series Evolution: Constant Change and Common Threads.

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Gene Switches—A Model

To accompany the lecture series Evolution: Constant Change and Common Threads.

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Mirror-Tracing Activity

To accompany the lecture series Making Your Mind: Molecules, Motion, and Memory.

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Drug Adherence Activity

To accompany the lecture series AIDS: Evolution of an Epidemic.

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Download Protocol 1 data sheet (0.2 MB PDF file)

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Planaria Regeneration Activity

To accompany the lecture series Potent Biology: Stem Cells, Cloning, and Regeneration.

View a documentary on the relationship between planaria regeneration and stem cells.

11 minutes 46 seconds
Large: Play: MOV (114 MB) / WMV (156 MB)
Small: Play: MOV (38 MB) / WMV (39 MB)

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Download the planaria activity sheet (0.8 MB PDF file)

Download the planaria data sheet (0.4 MB Word document)

Pedigree Analysis Activity

To accompany the lecture series Learning from Patients: The Science of Medicine.

Download the pedigree analysis document (250 KB PDF file)

Download the pedigree analysis answer key (11 KB PDF file)

Molecular Menagerie—A Molecular Modeling Activity

To accompany the lecture series Scanning Life's Matrix: Genes, Proteins, and Small Molecules.

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