Online Biology 114, Ecosystem Biology: The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

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Announcements:

• The Biology 114 Syllabus is available on Blackboard.
• 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 this specific course (Spring 2009 BIOL 101 GENERAL BIOLOGY (LECTURE) 31037) and follow the directions under announcements regarding Biology Videos.
• The broadcast schedule for video modules may be found at http://www.palomar.edu/pctv.

• Some links to useful animations are listed below.

• • An EXCELLENT enzyme animation can be found at:
    http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072495855/student_view0/chapter2/animation__how_enzymes_work.html
• 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
  

Interesting 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

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