Zoology 100/101, General Zoology

dsourbeer@palomar.edu 

Announcements:

• The course syllabus is available in Blackboard.
• For a copy of the Microscopy Rules click here.
• A good microscopy web page at http://biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser/Labs/Microscope/Microscope_Features&Care.htm.
• The Library now has a new system that allows you to access any of its online subscriptions off-campus (or through the campus wireless networks) using your Palomar network username/password. You may login off-campus using your Student eServices login. On-campus access does not require a login.  More information is available at http://www.palomar.edu/Library/OnlineDatabases/offcampus.htm.  
• Some helpful links and Videos for exam 1 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

• For a nice website on DNA Structure, transcription, and translation go to http://www.johnkyrk.com/DNAanatomy.html.

• For a nice animation on Transcription go to: http://www.ncc.gmu.edu/dna/mRNAanim.htm or http://www-class.unl.edu/biochem/gp2/m_biology/animation/gene/gene_a2.html.

• To see an animation of Translation, click the following link:
  http://www.ncc.gmu.edu/dna/ANIMPROT.htm or http://www-class.unl.edu/biochem/gp2/m_biology/animation/gene/gene_a3.html.

• To see an animation on mitosis go to: http://www.csuchico.edu/~jbell/Biol207/animations/mitosis.html  or http://www.cellsalive.com/ or http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072437316/student_view0/chapter11/animations.html# or http://www.johnkyrk.com/mitosis.html.

• To see an animation on meiosis go to: http://www.csuchico.edu/~jbell/Biol207/animations/meiosis.html  or http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072437316/student_view0/chapter12/animations.html or http://www.johnkyrk.com/meiosis.html.

• To see an animation of crossing over in meiosis go to: http://www.csuchico.edu/~jbell/Biol207/animations/recombination.html

• Video 1 discusses the nature of science.

• Videos 18 and 19 discuss inheritance (Mendelian genetics), Video 16 discusses mitosis, Video 17 discusses Meiosis and sexual reproduction, and Videos 13 and 14 discuss transcription, translation, and mutations



• Email me if you have questions.    

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interesting(?) Links

Information regarding a number of invertebrate species can be found at:

http://webs.lander.edu/rsfox/invertebrates

USAF's Public Health Information and Resources Agency

http://usaf.phsource.us/PH/ZD/index.htm

CDC's Division of Parasitic Diseases (DPDx)

http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/DPDx/default.htm

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/

The Encyclopedia of Life

http://www.eol.org/

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/  

Useful Pictures (?) at:

http://www.emporia.edu/biosci/invert/

Horse Evolution Discussed at:

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

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

Links to Human Skeletal Anatomy:

http://daphne.palomar.edu/cfrancis/bonepage.htm

http://www.bio.psu.edu/people/faculty/strauss/anatomy/skel/skeletal.htm

http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~pbrown3/skeleton.pdf

Evo-Devo in Sixty Seconds

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

An Excellent Presentation of Mendelian and Molecular Genetics at:

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

Get Information On Any Species (iSpecies) 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/

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

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

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

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

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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