Biology 1100 EXTRA CREDIT

You may earn a maximum of 20 extra credit points by completing one of these options:

Write a one-page report on an article below and give a brief presentation for 4 points each.
Teach part of a lecture, using my notes, for 4 points per topic.
Produce a youtube video on an approved topic.
Raise insects such as butterflies or moths.

Chapter	1	Scientific thinking Largest ever clinical study into echinacea finds herbal remedy CAN protect against colds Daily Mail 10/10/12 Is the Placebo Effect in Your DNA? The Atlantic 4/13/15 The Dr. Who Gave Himself an Ulcer Discover Magazine 4/8/10
Chapter	2	The chemistry of biology How lizards walk on water BBC News 11/24/04 Why Toyota and GM Are Pushing Fuel-Cell Cars to Market MIT Technology Review 7/5/13 Acid/Alkaline Theory of Disease Is Nonsense Quackwatch 1/11/09
Chapter	3	Molecules of life Sugar vs. high-fructose corn syrup CBS News 6/22/15 Why Carb Loading Is a Bad Idea The 50 Worst Inventions: Olestra 5/27/10 Artificial trans fats are officially banned Washington Post 6/18/18 Cholesterol in food not a concern CNN 2/19/15 Got lactase? University of California Museum of Paleontology April 2007 Lactose Tolerance and Human Evolution Smithsonian 4/7/09
Chapter	4	A tour of the cell 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 Marathon Runners: Beware Of Drinking Too Much Water ScienceDaily 1/11/08 What causes alewives to die off in great numbers? University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute 2013
Chapter	5	Energy 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 Solar-powered sea slug harnesses stolen plant genes New Scientist 11/24/08 The first solar-powered vertebrate New Scientist 1/18/13 Plant Pigments Paint a Rainbow of Antioxidants USDA 1/22/07 Why Are Flamingos Pink? webexhibits.org Why Are Monkey Butts So Colorful? Popular Science 4/10/13 New Risks for Nexium and Other Proton Pump Inhibitors Wall Street Journal 5/11/10 NADH and chronic fatigue syndrome DC's Improbable Science 12/11/02
Chapter	6	DNA and the expression of genes DNA barcodes for seafood EarthSky 6/23/12 Ancient Siberian Genome Reveals Genetic Origins of Native Americans ScienceDaily 11/20/13 Carnivorous plant throws out 'junk' DNA University at Buffalo 5/13/13 The Sea Change That's Challenging Biology's Central Dogma Discover Magazine 11/3/09 Alternative splicing and disease ScienceDirect January 2009 How Did Humans Develop Lactose Tolerance? The Salt 12/28/12 'Asian Glow' Gene Shows Drinking Less Cuts Heart Risk Bloomberg 7/11/14
Chapter	8	Chromosomes and cell division Seedless Watermelon University of Arkansas 8/29/03 Who Put The Navel In Navel Oranges? NPR 4/18/09 First baby born with DNA from 3 parents CBS News 9/27/16 Brain cell regeneration sniffed out in adult humans New Scientist 2/15/07 Ghost heart has a tiny beat Nature News 1/13/08 People With Down Syndrome Are Pioneers In Alzheimer's Research NPR 8/25/14 Why Sex Is Not Binary New York Times 10/25/18
Chapter	9	Genes and inheritance Baby Mix-Up Times Online 10/10/07 How Blue Eyed Parents Can Have Brown Eyed Children The Tech Museum of Innovation 2013 Tendency To Hair Loss Inherited From The Mother ScienceDaily 5/20/05
Chapter	10	Evolution and natural selection 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 On the Origin of Darwin's Finches Molecular Biology and Evolution 10/24/2000 Yes, we have no bananas The Economist 5/1/14 How Hunting is Driving "Evolution in Reverse." Newsweek 1/2/09 Arctic Inuit, Native American cold adaptations may originate from extinct hominids Phys.org 12/20/16 The Secret To The Inuit High-Fat Diet May Be Good Genes NPR: The Salt 9/17/15 New Fossils Challenge Marsupial Evolution Theory Sci-News 7/25/13 Archaeopteryx: The Transitional Fossil Science 4/28/15 International team maps Big Bang of bird speciation Genome 10K 12/11/14 Is The Hippopotamus The Closest Living Relative To The Whale? University of Calgary 3/19/2009 Peruvian fossils yield a four-legged otterlike whale with hooves The Society for Science & the Public 4/5/2019 If pharyngeal slits turn into gills, why don't humans have gills? University of Waikato 5/31/11 Human and great ape hemoglobin U. of Michigan Why do men have nipples? 6/18/79
Chapter	11	Evolution and behavior Looks Matter Science News 10/1/05 The Way to a Female Katydid's Heart? Offer Her Food LiveScience 9/27/11 Why katydid girls fight over boys CBC News 10/7/11 Oxytocin increases trust in humans Nature 6/2/05 Pill Users Choose 'Wrong' Sex Partners WebMD 8/12/08 Gay Men Respond to Male Pheromones Motherboard 5/1/14 Lesbians Respond Differently to Human Pheromones National Geographic News 5/8/06 Waggle Dance Controversy Resolved By Radar ScienceDaily 5/12/05 Bee ocelli used for orientation BeeInformed 10/26/11
Chapter	12	The origin and diversification of life on earth Greenish Warbler, a 'ring species'? Phys.org 5/25/14 Four-legged snake ancestor dug burrows BBC News 7/24/15 How Ancient Whales Lost Their Legs University of Florida News 5/22/06 Why do humans get goosebumps Scientific American 9/1/03 Tsetse Flies Lactate and Give Birth to Live Larvae Discover Magazine 4/20/12 Birds that make teeth EurekAlert 2/21/06 Afrotheria: Unexpected Relatives! Yale Peabody Museum 2008 Afrotheria: Plate tectonics meets genomics PNAS 1/2/01 Evolution in the Order ELEPHANTIDAE Cornell University 2015 The Elephantidae: Elephants and mammoths UC Museum of Paleontology 10/2011 Woolly Mammoth migration Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose Did Darwin get it wrong? Searching for the ancestor of Darwin's finches On Science 2005 Evolution of Wheat CerealsDB Evolution of Cotton PNAS Triploid and tetraploid oysters U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization 2005
Chapter	13	Animal diversification Acorn worm genome reveals gill origins of human pharynx Phys.org 11/18/15 Coelacanth Genome Unlocked Scientific American 4/17/13 Ancient Walking Whales National Geographic News 9/19/01 Whale and hippo 'close cousins' BBC News 1/24/05 Blue Whales With Pearly Whites New York Times 10/4/10 These genes are made for walking – another step from fins to limbs Technology.org 1/22/14 Genome analysis of the platypus reveals unique signatures of evolution Nature 5/8/08
Chapter	15	Evolution and diversity among the microbes Herpes Virus Used As Nanomachines For Cancer Treatment ScienceDaily ScienceDaily Influenza virus RNA genome Virology Blog 5/1/09 The parasitic wasps that are genetically modifying butterflies Daily Mail 9/18/15 Modern humans inherited viral defenses from Neanderthals Stanford University 10/4/18 Jumping species: How HIV entered our world Rockefeller University 7/30/13 Hunting Fossil Viruses in Human DNA New York Times 1/11/10 Endogenous retroviruses Retrovirology 10/3/06 Engineered immune cells seem to block HIV CBS News 3/5/14 Neutralizing flu virus, and killing infected cells Elsevier 2006
Chapter	16	Population ecology Extinction of the Rocky Mountain Locust Jeffery A. Lockwood 2004 Boom-or-Bust Breeding Cycle That Helps the Mighty Oak Survive Wall Street Journal 11/4/16 The Shocking News About Cod New York Times 9/23/12 Why Some Chefs Just Can't Quit Serving Bluefin Tuna NPR 1/7/15 Sustainable tuna fishing is bad for climate New Scientist 1/3/17
Chapter	17	Ecosystems, communities, and species interactions Eat more anchovies, herring and sardines Guardian News 2/18/11 NZ flatulence tax outrages farmers BBC News 6/20/03 Cow Power Could Generate Electricity For Millions ScienceDaily 7/25/08
Chapter	18	Conservation biology 3 Billion to Zero: What Happened to the Passenger Pigeon? Scientific American 6/27/14 Happy 40th Anniversary to the Parakeets of Hyde Park Chicago magazine 3/18/13 Why Are Monk Parakeets Leaving Hyde Park? 3/21/16 The Story of the Stephens Island Wren BBC 6/2/06 Florida panthers bound back thanks to Texas mates Washington Post 9/23/10 Bluefin Tuna National Geographic Magazine March 2014 Two thousand mice dropped on Guam by parachute - to kill snakes NBC News 12/2/13 McDonald's Pulls The Plug On Styrofoam Sustainable Business 9/27/13 Greener, HFC-free refrigerator set to enter U.S. market in 2011 Washington Post 12/26/10 EPA Approves Hydrocarbon Refrigerants for Commercial and Household Use Environment News Service 12/15/11 Why New York banned polystyrene foam BBC 7/1/15 Are Aerosols Still Bad for the Ozone Layer? Scientific American 9/4/08 Greenhouse Effect on Venus Space Today Online 2005 2015 May Just Be Hottest Year on Record Scientific American 8/20/15 The Popping of the Shale Gas Bubble Forbes 9/3/14 Melting Ice Opens Fight Over Sea Routes for Arctic Debate Bloomberg Business 5/12/13 NASA Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater than Losses NASA 10/30/15 Milankovitch Cycles and Temperatures ClimateData


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