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Biology 211 Active Learning Exercises

Fall 2013   Instructor:  Ken Marr

  Please Note: The "ALE's"  below are Adobe .pdf files

 All ALE's below  reflect the page numbers and chapters in the Biol 211 textbook,

Biology by Campbell/Reece, 8th ed. and might be significantly different than those used in earlier and later editions!

  1. ALE 1.   Themes in the Study of Life   

  1. Here's a site that discusses pseudoscience and how to detect it: What is Pseudoscience? How can you recognize pseudoscience?

  2. Disclaimer Stickers for Science Textbooks

  3. Quack Watch is a nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies (i.e. pseudoscience related to the health/medical field)

  4. Scientific Method Tutorial

  1. ALE 2A.    Explanations of Evolution

     

  2. ALE 2B.   The Chemistry of Life

    1. Chemical Bonding Tutorial

    2. Animation of Hydrogen Bonding in Water

    3. Animation of Salt Dissolving in Water

  3. ALE 3.  Biomacromolecules, Enzymes, and ATP

    1. Chemical Basis of Life: Animations, Tutorial and Practice Questions

    2. Carbohydrates animation/tutorial

    3. Lipids animation/tutorial

    4. Proteins animation/tutorial

    5. Heat Changes Protein Structure: Frying an Egg

  4. ALE 4.  Structure and Function of Cells and Cell Membranes

    1. Animation of Endocytosis and Exocytosis

    2. Animation of protein synthesis and excretion from a cell (narration a bit fast and with an error in the beginning, otherwise pretty good)

  5. ALE 5. Cellular Respiration

    1. Cellular Respiration: tutorial with practice questions and animations of Glycolysis, Krebs, cycle and Electron Transport

    2. Animation ETC/chemiosmotic theory/oxidative phosphorylation (This is a good animation & highly recommended!)

    3. Cellular Respiration Animation

    4. Fermentation animation

    5. Cellular Respiration PowerPoint Notes

    6. Free Radical and Glucose Crosslink Theories of aging

    7. Information on Free Radicals

    8. PowerPoint Animations of Free Radical formation

    9. Alcohol Metabolism (from the NIH): Your genetically determined ability to metabolize alcohol may give you a predisposition to substance abuse or certain kinds of cancer!!

    10. Information on Low Carb/High Protein Diets   

  6. ALE 6.   Photosynthesis

    1. Animations of the light dependent stages/photophosphorylation

    2. PowerPoint notes for Chapter 10 Photosynthesis

    3. Animation of Photosynthesis: Light stage and Calvin cycle

    4. Animation of the light absorbing pigments Chlorophyll a & b.

    5. Harvesting light Animation (light stage of PSN)

    6. Good videos that explain photorespiration and C4 and CAM Photosynthesis:

  7. ALE 7.   Cell Division: Mitosis and Meiosis

     

    Follow these links for extra help and problems:

    1. Animation of  Mitosis and Cytokinesis

    2.  Animation #1 of Meiosis        Animation #2 of Meiosis

    3. Animation: "How Meiosis Works"

    4. Animation: Mitosis vs. Meiosis

    5. Animation of Meiosis with Crossover (with self-test questions)

    6. Mitosis and The Cell Cycle Problem Sets and tutorials at the Biology Project

    7. Meiosis Problem Sets and tutorials at the Biology Project

    8. Mitosis and Meiosis Tutorial and Problems

    9. Karyotyping, nondisjunction and human chromosomal disorders.

    10. A letter to the editor concerning an Obituary of a victim of cancer

     

  8. ALE 8.   Mendelian Genetics and Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance    

Follow these links for extra help:

  1. Animation of Independent Assortment

  2. Animation of Meiosis with Crossover  (with self-test questions)

  3. Mendelian Genetics Problem Sets and tutorials at the Biology Project

  4. Human Genetics Problem Sets and Tutorials at the Biology Project

  5. Basic Principles of Genetics:
    An Introduction to Mendelian Genetics

  6. Karyotyping, nondisjunction and human chromosomal disorders.

For your reading pleasure:

  1. The Maria Patino Story (Deals with androgen insensitivity syndrome where a person is phenotypically a woman, but has a male genotype--i.e. has male sex chromosomes, XY, but is otherwise a female!)

  2. Gender Verification No More? (Deals with testing athletes for their gender)

  3. Does the actress Jamie Lee Curtis have Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome? Visit these sights for possible answers:

    1. http://www.answers.com/topic/jamie-lee-curtis

    2. http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/jamie.htm

    3. http://annierichards.tripod.com/ais.htm

ALE 9.  The Hereditary Material: DNA    

  1. Animation of DNA replication

  2. Animation of the Hershey and Chase Experiment

  3. Animation of the Meselson and Stahl Experiment

  4. Telomerase and Aging (good diagrams showing how telomerase works)

  5. Animation of Telomerase lengthening Telomeres

  6. Role of p53 Gene in Apoptosis and Cancer

  7. Role of p53 gene

  8. Biology of Aging  An authoritative source of information on the biology of aging for the layperson--an excellent site!

  9. Telomere Shortening, Senescence, Mitochondria,  Free Radicals, Apoptosis and Aging (Quite informative, but technical information!)

  10. A letter to the editor concerning an Obituary of a victim of cancer

  11. UCSB Scientists Discover Inner Workings of Potent Cancer Drug, Maytansine. Findings May Help Patients with Advanced Breast Cancer

  1. ALE 10.  From Gene to Protein 

    1. Animation of Translation (protein synthesis)

    2. Genetic Code (alphabetized by amino acid with one and three letter abbreviations)

  1. ALE 11. Genetics of Viruses, Recombinant DNA   Technology, Gene Expression in Prokaryotes

  1. Viruses and Phages Lecture Notes (PowerPoint)

    Virus Animations & other Resources:

    1. Animation of HIV replication

    2. Animation of Treatment of HIV

    3. HIV life Cycle (with animation)

    4. Viruses: Tutorials, animations, and self quizzes are found this site! 

    5. HIV and AIDS Tutorial at the Biology Project, at the University of Arizona; Biology Project Homepage 

    6. Influenza Viruses (a Center for Disease Control webpage)

    7. Constructing Vaccines

    8. Biology of Influenza and Avian Flu  (Adobe Acrobat .pdf file)

    9. Vaccine Production May Fail in Flu Pandemic  (Real Audio file from NPR's Morning Edition, 12/05/05)

      Listen to this story... 

     

  2. Recombinant DNA Technology Lecture Notes  (PowerPoint)

    Biotechnology Animations

    1. Use of the Ti Plasmid to genetically modify a plant

    2. Restriction Endonucleases

    3. Gel Electrophoresis

    4. Southern Blot: Use of a radioactive probe to identify a gene of interest

    5. Polymerase Chain Reaction

    6. cDNA: use of reverse transcriptase to copy mRNA to produce a eukaryotic gene (i.e. complementary DNA)

    7. Early Genetic Engineering Experiment

    8. Steps in Cloning a Gene

    9. Microarrays

    Other Resources:

    1. How to extract DNA from anything living

    2. Gene Therapy Promising for Treating 'Bubble' Children (Real Audio file from NPR's Morning Edition, 12/27/04Listen to this story...)

 

  1. Control of Gene Expression Lecture Notes  (PowerPoint)

    Control of Gene Expression Animations:

    1. Tryptophan Operon

    2. Lac Operon(#1)   Lac Operon(#2)  Lac Operon (simplified)

    3. Control of Gene Expression in Eukaryotes