Biology 1100 EXTRA CREDIT

Chapter	1	The Science of Biology The Largest Organism on Earth Is a Fungus Scientific American 10/4/07 Microbes Turn Electricity Directly To Methane ScienceDaily 3/30/09 Landfill's bioreactor is a source of pride in Polk County St. Petersburg Times 1/31/09
Chapter	2	Evolution and Ecology Darwin's theory of atoll formation The voyage of the Beagle 1839 Darwin's study on barnacles Living Cirripedia 1954 Darwin's experiments on mud on birds' feet The Origin of Species 1859 Darwin's sexual selection theory best explanation for gender differences Mizzou Weekly 4/22/10 Darwin's study on plant hormones The Power of Movement of Plants 1881 Darwin's Earthworm Experiments Broke New Ground NPR 2/12/09 Did Darwin get it wrong? Searching for the ancestor of Darwin's finches On Science 2005 Origin and Evolutionary Relationships of Giant Galapagos Tortoises PNAS 11/9/99 New Twist on Origin of Human Species PhysOrg.com 5/17/06
Chapter	3	The Chemistry of Life How an Evaporative Cooler Works California Energy Commission 2006 How lizards walk on water BBC News 11/24/04 Acid/Alkaline Theory of Disease Is Nonsense Quackwatch 1/11/09
Chapter	4	Molecules of Life Gigantic Spider Webs Made of Silk Tougher Than Kevlar Wired.com 9/20/10 Sixty percent of adults can't digest milk USATODAY 9/15/09 History of starching fabric OldandInteresting 7/21/10 Chitin From Lobster Shell Shows Great Healing And Bio-Stimulant Properties ScienceDaily 7/16/07 State bans trans fats Los Angeles Times 7/26/08
Chapter	5	Cells What's that stuff? soap bubbles Chemical & Engineering News 4/28/03 Mitochondrial Inheritance Genetic Drift Winter/94 'Mitochondrial Eve': Mother of All Humans Lived 200,000 Years Ago ScienceDaily 8/17/10 Reverse Osmosis Moves Forward. Environmental Health Perspectives Jan 2005
Chapter	6	Energy and Life Enzyme Cleaners Eliminate Cat Urine Odor ArticleCity 8/27/05 Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors Richard E. Klabunde, PhD 2/06/10 Thermostable DNA Polymerases Colorado State University 12/27/99 The use of enzymes in detergents London South Bank University 12/20/04 What is Meat? Exploratorium
Chapter	7	Photosynthesis: Acquiring Energy from the Sun Spinach Power Adds Muscle to Batteries New York Times 11/11/04 A Prayerbook's Secret: Archimedes Lies Beneath NPR 7/27/06 Cellulosic ethanol output could explode Reuters 1/9/09 Flower power makes tropics cooler, wetter University of Chicago 6/16/10 Plant Pigments Paint a Rainbow of Antioxidants USDA 1/22/07 Why Are Flamingos Pink? webexhibits.org
Chapter	8	How Cells Harvest Energy from Food An Introduction to Probiotics National Institutes of Health Aug 2008 New Risks for Nexium and Other Proton Pump Inhibitors Wall Street Journal 5/11/10 Corn Plastic to the Rescue Smithsonian Magazine August/06 How to Use Glycogen Loading to Avoid Getting Fat or Flat Ori Hofmekler
Chapter	9	Mitosis Proto-Oncogenes and Normal Cell Growth National Cancer Institute 09/01/06 Brain cell regeneration sniffed out in adult humans New Scientist 2/15/07 Ghost heart has a tiny beat Nature News 1/13/08
Chapter	10	Meiosis 2010 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology: In Vitro Fertilization Scientific American 10/4/10 Seedless Watermelon University of Arkansas 8/29/03 Are Males Genetically Doomed? Futurist Mar/Apr 05 The XX Brain and the XY Brain Psychiatric Times Aug 05
Chapter	11	Foundations of Genetics The Unfortunate Sex Life of the Banana Damn Interesting, 8/24/09 Baby Mix-Up Times Online 10/10/07 The Effect of Female Hormone Fluctuations on the Incidence of Trisomy in Humans FGCU 98 A Sweet Remedy for Huntington's? New Scientist 1/21/04
Chapter	12	DNA: The Genetic Material 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Telomeres Scientific American 12/5/09 Telomerase's New Talent Science Now 8/17/05 'Jumping Genes' Create Diversity In Human Brain Cells ScienceDaily 8/6/09 Sleeping Beauty Plays a Significant Role in Identifying Cancer Genes National Cancer Institute 7/13/05
Chapter	13	How Genes Work The Sea Change That's Challenging Biology's Central Dogma Discover Magazine 11/3/09 Ribozymes & the RNA World Exploring Life's Origins
Chapter	14	Gene Technology Mosquito with glowing gonads to help battle malaria Science News 10/10/05 Glow in the dark pigs BBC News 1/12/06 Roundup Ready Corn Versus Roundup Ready Weeds U of Illinois extension 2/13/06 Ear today, gone tomorrow? USA Today 6/19/03 Eating plants with animal genes does not make you a carnivore. Reason Magazine 11/27/02
Chapter	15	Genomics Judge Invalidates Human Gene Patent New York Times 3/29/10 How Alu Jumps Dolan DNA Learning Center Genome analysis of the platypus reveals unique signatures of evolution Nature 5/8/08 Evolution's human and chimp twist BBC News 5/18/06 Spot Your Genes - An Overview Of The Microarray Science Creative Quarterly August 04
Chapter	16	The Revolution in Cell Technology Dolly Was Lucky Science News 01 Cloning world's first copy-cat NewScientist 2/15/02 Induced pluripotent stem cells retain an inactive X chromosome UCLA 9/08/10 Milestone In The Regeneration Of Brain Cells ScienceDaily 8/22/07 Cancer risk clouds miracle gene cures New Scientist 3/15/03 Adenovirus Tamed To Destroy Cancer Cells ScienceDaily 5/25/09
Chapter	17	Evolution and Natural Selection Survival of the Weak and Scrawny Newsweek 1/12/09 Updating Evolution Evidence - The Peppered Moth The Naked Scientists June 2008 Ancient Walking Whales National Geographic News 9/19/01
Chapter	18	How We Name Living Things Birds that make teeth EurekAlert 2/21/06 Algae: Biofuel Of The Future? ScienceDaily 8/19/08 Pond Scum Biodiesel Biodiesel 2/3/07 Purple Bacteria Best for Harvesting Solar Energy ScienceDaily 5/5/10
Chapter	19	Prokaryotes: The First Single-Celled Creatures Herpes Virus Used As Nanomachines For Cancer Treatment ScienceDaily ScienceDaily Influenza virus RNA genome Virology Blog 5/1/09 RNA virus replication strategies University of South Carolina 4/26/10 Hunting Fossil Viruses in Human DNA New York Times 1/11/10 Endogenous retroviruses Retrovirology 10/3/06
Chapter	36	Reproduction and Development Social hierarchies: Size and growth modification in clownfish Nature 7/10/03 Mouth-brooding frog is Species of the Day! Zoological Society of London 4/12/10 Indonesia's birth control pill for men GlobalPost 2/27/11 What Fixes Low Testosterone Best: Meds or Porn? Newsweek 5/20/09 In Ducks, War of the Sexes Plays Out in the Evolution of Genitalia New York Times 5/1/07 Study links estrogen exposure to fish kills, disease Greenwire 6/4/09
Chapter	37	Populations and Communities Parasite Infection May Benefit Multiple Sclerosis Patients ScienceDaily 1/18/07 Magnificent anemone [Heteractis magnifica] wildsingapore Jan 09
Chapter	38	Ecosystems NZ flatulence tax outrages farmers BBC News 6/20/03 Cow Power Could Generate Electricity For Millions ScienceDaily 7/25/08 Dishes Still Dirty? Blame Phosphate-Free Detergent NPR 12/15/10 Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone' to grow dramatically Mother Nature Network 9/16/09
Chapter	39	Behavior and the Environment As Autumn Approaches, This Chickadee's Brain Begins To Expand ScienceDaily 9/12/03 Looks Matter Science News 10/1/05 Why katydid girls fight over boys CBC News 10/7/11 Waggle Dance Controversy Resolved By Radar ScienceDaily 5/12/05 Oxytocin increases trust in humans Nature 6/2/05 Pill Users Choose 'Wrong' Sex Partners WebMD 8/12/08
Chapter	40	How Humans Influence the Living World The Story of the Stephens Island Wren BBC 6/2/06 Shipwreck Rat Fears For St Kilda Birds Scottish Daily Record 2/2/08 Trapped like vermin Times Online, UK 2/9/08 Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site dropped Times Online 2/3/10 Gribble could hold key to biofuel breakthrough Daily Mail 3/10/10


Bio1100 supplementary material	Updated: Feb 21, 2012.	Peter Chen