"Internet" Biology 101

dsourbeer@palomar.edu 

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• For a copy of the Fall 2008 syllabus  click here.
• For the General Biology Lecture Outline and Study Guide, click here.  The page numbers on the Table of Contents is not accurate.  

•  EXAM 3, EXAM 4, WORKSHEET 3, WORKSHEET 4 AND THE TAXONOMY EXERCISE MUST BE COMPLETED BY DECEMBER 11.  NO EXCEPTIONS!!!

•  I WILL ADD 5% TO YOUR EXAM 3 SCORE IF YOU COMPLETE AND TURN IN EXAM 3 AND WORKSHEET 3 BY NOVEMBER 13.

• There are a limited number of exams, limited seating for testing at the Tutoring Center in the library, AND we are certainly not the only classes taking exams there.  It is your responsibility to take exams and turn in assignments well in advance of the deadlines.  If you show up the last day, you may be waiting a considerable time to take an exam, and you may not be able to complete an exam before the Tutoring Center closes.  Waiting until the last minute to take an exam, and not being able to complete an exam before the Tutoring Center closes, will NOT be grounds for an "exception" to the deadlines stated above.

• The exams are available at the Tutoring Center on the first floor of the San Marcos campus library.  Be sure to bring a Palomar or picture ID.  The Tutoring Center hours are available at http://www.palomar.edu/tutoring/.
• The video streamed lessons are now available on Blackboard at http://www.palomar.edu/pconline/.  To login to Blackboard you MUST set your password in eServices if you have not already done so (You may refer  to instructions on how to do this at "Set Your eServices Password" online at http://www.palomar.edu/pconline/tutorials/eServicesPassword.asp ).  Once you login, click on the link to your specific class and follow the directions under announcements regarding Biology Videos.
• When viewing videos from home be sure to select theWINDOWS MEDIA option instead of Real Player.  There have been problems with the Real Player videos.  The Windows Media option may display at the very END of the video list on some computers.

• Some links to useful animations are listed below.

  • To see an animation of Transcription, click the following links:
    http://www.ncc.gmu.edu/dna/mRNAanim.htm
    http://www.csuchico.edu/~jbell/Biol207/animations/transcription.html
  • To see an animation of Translation, click the following link:
    http://www.ncc.gmu.edu/dna/ANIMPROT.htm
    http://www.johnkyrk.com/DNAtranslation.html
  • To see an animation of DNA/Chromosomal replication, click the link:
    http://www.ncc.gmu.edu/dna/repanim.htm
  • To see an animation of spliceosome action, click the link:
    http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/anisamples/molecularbiology/mRNAsplicing.html
  • To see an animation of the action of transposons, click the following link:
    http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072556781/student_view0/chapter13/animation_quiz_5.html
  • To see an animation of the inducible Lactose operon, click the following link:
    http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/anisamples/majorsbiology/lacoperon.html
• For the first four lessons of the lecture outline click here.
• Contact me if you have questions at my email address above.

Important Links

Evo-Devo in Sixty Seconds

http://www.60secondscience.com/archive/what-is-evodevo.php

Animations of How Drugs Work in the Brain

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units/addiction/drugs/mouse.cfm

The World's Greatest Science Blog at:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/

The Guttmacher Institute--Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health

http://www.guttmacher.org/

Thirty-four Unconvincing Arguments for Existence of God at:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/12/34_unconvincing_arguments_for.php#more

A Religions Discussion at:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/09/representative_theological_arg.php

Compare Creation Myths at:

http://www.magictails.com/creationlinks.html

An Excellent Presentation of Mendelian and Molecular Genetics at:

http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/

The Tree of Life Web Site at:

http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html

Great Microbiology Web Site at:

http://www.bact.wisc.edu/themicrobialworld/homepage.html

Great Zoology Blog at:

http://www.scienceblogs.com/zooillogix/  

Horse Evolution Discussed at:

http://laelaps.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/the-branching-bush-of-horse-evolution/

Get Information On Any Species at:

http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/

Let Intellectual Freedom Ring:

Closing Arugments in Dover, Pa Trial

Even Religious Universities Won't Touch the Stuff

ID Meeting its Maker

Creationist (Intelligent Design) Arguments Addressed at:

http://talkorigins.org/origins/outline.html#arguments

The Problem With Non-scientists Talking About Evolution

http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/advice_to_a_historian/

In Their Own Words: Intelligent Design Isn't Science

http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/contributing_to_behes_sense_of_martyrdom/

Fifteen Answers to Creationist Nonsense (from Scientific American) at:

http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/textbookdisclaimers/wackononsense.pdf

If The Truth Won't Work, Dazzle Them With Cow "Manure"

http://www.uncommondescent.com/index.php/archives/659

U. C.  Berkeley's Evolution web page.  Resources for teaching as well general evolutionary knowledge

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/

Some Frank Evolutionary Discussions at:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/ 

A Number of Evolutionary Concepts Discussed at:

http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/evolution.html

"Show Me the Science" an  Editorial from NY Times Addresses ID, By Daniel Dennett, Tufts University

Show Me the Science

Pastafarianism is Coming to an Evolutionary Theory Near You at:

http://www.venganza.org

Read the trial transcript of Clarence Darrow's questioning of noted "Creation Scientist" William Jennings Bryan at the famous Scopes Trail in Dayton, Tennesse in 1925

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/day7.htm

Evolutionists address proponents of Intelligent Design at the following links:

http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/nhmag.html

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/19/boing_boings_250000_.html

An Analogy for Theory, and an Application of that Analogy to Evolutionary Theory and Intelligent Designers

http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/puzzling_over_theory/#continue

A Great Website on Molecular Genetics

http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/

A List of Biblical Contradictions

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/jim_meritt/bible-contradictions.html#order

For A Collection of Poems, Sayings, and Quotes of Interest

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