To accompany the short film The Day the Mesozoic Died

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The Day the Mesozoic Died

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

Stem Cells and Diabetes

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

Download the Teacher materials as a PDF file or a Word document

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Mosquito Life Cycle

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

Download the mosquito activity as a PDF file.

Download the mosquito reference manual as a PDF file.

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.

Download the Teacher Guide as a PDF file.

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

Download the DNA comparison activity as a Word document

Download the DNA comparison activity sequence files (Zip file)

Survival of the Fittest—Battling Beetles

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

Download the Teacher version as a PDF file or a Word document.

Download the Student version as a PDF file or a Word document.

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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Download the Student version as a PDF file or a Word document.

Download the PowerPoint Presentation.

Gene Switches—A Model

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

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Download the Student version as a PDF file or a Word document.

Mirror-Tracing Activity

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

Download the mirror tracing activity instructions (1 MB PDF file)

Drug Adherence Activity

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

Download the adherence activity instructions (1 MB PDF file)

Download Protocol 1 data sheet (0.2 MB PDF file)

Download Protocol 2 data sheet (0.2 MB PDF file)

Download Protocol 3 data sheet (0.2 MB PDF file)

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)

To download the videos, in Internet Explorer right-click the link and select "Save Target As..." In Firefox right-click and select "Save Link As..." In Safari right-click and select "Download Linked File As..." (On the Macintosh, hold the control button and click for a right-click)

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.

Download the molecular menagerie document (808 KB PDF file)