Handouts

• Reading Assignment Sheet  # 1
• Web Page Assignment: Some Possible Topics
• Discussion Dates and Topics
• Assignment for Discussion Section #2: “Social Darwinism”
• Reading Assignment Overview Sheet # 2: Classes #10 - 14
• Discussion Section # 3: Genetics and Agriculture, 1900-1930
• Reading Assignment Sheet # 3: Classes 15 – 20 (March 6-29)
• Discussion Section # 4: Eugenics and the Eugenics Movement
• Reading Assignment Sheet # 4: Classes 21-28 (April 3 – 26)
• Discussion Section # 6: The Mechanistic Conception of Life
• Second Meeting on Web-Page Projects
• Discussion Section # 7 (April 19-20): Evolution and Creationism, Then and Now
• Exam Guide

Life Sciences Chapter Readings

• Chapter 3

Class PowerPoint Notes

• Jan 18
• Jan 23
• Jan 25
• Jan 30
• Feb 1
• Feb 6
• Feb 8
• Feb 13
• Feb 15
• Feb 19
• Feb 22
• Feb 27
• March 6
• March 8
• March 27
• March 29
• April 3
• April 5
• April 10
• April 12
• April 17
• April 19
• April 24

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Student Webpages

• Creating a simple webpage

2007

• Viktor Hamburger
• Neo-Lamarckism
• Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
• The Miller-Urey Abiogenesis Experiment
• The Electrical/Chemical Debate of Neuron Transmission
• The Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole (links do not work with a Mac, use Windows)

2006

• Walter Reed and Yellow Fever
• The Ecological Effects of Operation Ranch Hand on Vietnam
• August Weismann
• Radioactive Tracers
• HIV/AIDS
• Stem Cell Emporium
• The Pioneer Fund and the New Eugenics Movement
• The Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC), Its Science and Its Politics

2005

• The Origins of the Human Genome Project
• The AIDS Pandemic: Past and Present
• Scientific Accomplishments of Dr. Cannon
• A History of Biology and Race
• Eugenics Today
• The Environmental Movement

2004

• The Book of Life Breaking the Genetic Code (1953-1967)
• From Mendel to Morgan: The Synthesis of Evolution and Genetics
• The Evolution of Anti-Evolutionary Thought
• Agriculture and Genetics were changing rapidly throughout the 1930s, with repercussions that are still felt today.
• Great Scientific Journeys: The DNA Revolution
• The Discovery of Action Potentials
• Morphology
• Electron Microscopy