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BIO 240 Week 1 Comparing Cell Structures Worksheet
BIO 240 Week 1 DQ 1 Cells  BIO 240 Week 1 DQ 2
Virus  BIO 240 Week 1 Comparing Cell Structures
Worksheet BIO 240 Week 1 Photosynthesis and
Respiration Paper   BIO 240 Week 2 DQ 1  BIO 240
Week 2 DQ 2  BIO 240 Week 3 DQ 1   BIO 240 Week 3
DQ 2   BIO 240 Week 3 Learning Team Outline  BIO
240 Week 3 DNA and Protein Synthesis  BIO 240
Week 4 DQ 1  BIO 240 Week 4 DQ2  BIO 240 Week 4
Natural Selection Paper  BIO 240 Week 5 Human
Evolution Paper and Presentation
Complete the following charts comparing
prokaryotes and eukaryotes, plant and animal
cells, and cells and viruses.
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BIO 240 Week 1 DQ 1 Cells
BIO 240 Week 1 DQ 2 Virus
What are some of the ways cells communicate
similar to the ways we humans communicate with
other people or with an organization? How are
they different?
Would you consider a virus living or non-living?
Why? How does this agree or disagree with
classification scheme applied by the scientific
community?
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BIO 240 Week 1 Photosynthesis and Respiration
Paper
BIO 240 Week 2 DQ 1
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper summarizing the
events of cellular respiration and photosynthesis
and examine the relationship between the
two. Include the following in your paper - For
photosynthesis, include a summary of the events
in - The Light Dependent Reaction - The Calvin
Cycle (Light Independent Reaction) - For cellular
respiration, include a summary of the events in
There is a fierce competition among individuals
within any species, humans included, to gain
access to reproductive privileges. The fittest
a term that signifies the largest, prettiest,
and most sexually attractive members, succeed in
predominantly mating and having offspring, while
the less attractive ones often do not. What is
the role of such sexual selection from an
evolutionary standpoint?
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BIO 240 Week 2 DQ 2
BIO 240 Week 3 DNA and Protein Synthesis
Would two identical twins growing up in different
neighborhood grow up differently?
Answer the following questions, in a total of 500
to 700 words. - Describe the structure of DNA and
the steps of protein synthesis. - Describe the
relationships between the following terms -
DNA - Chromatin material - Gene - Chromosome -
Use the following gene in protein
synthesis TAGGACCATTTTAGCCCC - Show the mRNA. -
Show the tRNA.
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BIO 240 Week 3 DQ 1
BIO 240 Week 3 DQ 2
Craig Venter made a new life form (a bacterium)
from scratch essentially from computer
database, and a few bottles of chemicals http//w
ww.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0521/J.-Craig-Venter
-Institute-creates-first-synthetic-life-form http
//www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/science/21cell.html I
f these and other such DNA-based technologies
become widely used, how might they change the way
evolution proceeds, as compared with the natural
evolutionary mechanisms of the past almost 4
billion years?
Is there danger of discrimination based on
testing for harmful genes? Would you support
cloning of life forms? How about a human clone?
What policies can you suggest that would prevent
or permit such practices?
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BIO 240 Week 3 Learning Team Outline
BIO 240 Week 4 DQ 1
Submit a minimum of one page draft outline for
your Learning Teams projects. Refer to
instructions on final assignment provided under
Week 5 details to assist in your research. Any
one team member may submit this to the Assignment
link.
Consider the human eye, an exquisitely adapted
organ that gives rise to stereo vision in full
color (see, for instance, The Evolution of
Primate Color Vision by Gerald H. Jacobs and
Jeremy Nathans, Scientific American, April 2009
issue, pp. 56-63). Explain, strictly from within
the framework of Darwinian evolution, how natural
selection crafted such an organ.
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BIO 240 Week 4 DQ 2
BIO 240 Week 4 Natural Selection Paper
How do you think we could trace back the
evolution of organs within our body by hundreds
of millions of years from our reptile ancestors
by examining coevolution patterns and fitness
landscapes? Discuss, for instance, the missing
link, Tiktaalik, that has made headlines around
the world (see Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin).
Write a 1,500- to 1,800-word paper that describes
Darwins mechanism of evolution by natural
selection. Include the following points in your
paper An explanation of Darwins assumptions
and inferences based on his major observations.
An example of how natural selection may have
worked in a population (for example, moth in New
England, drug-resistant bacteria, giraffes,
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BIO 240 Week 5 Human Evolution Paper and
Presentation
Prepare a 2,000 to 2,500-word paper, with at
least five outside references, in which you
examine evolution of our species as we spread
across the world. In your paper, be sure to
include the following items - The origin and
evolution of vertebrates. - Description of the
primate adaptations for living in trees. -
Comparison of the three main groups of primates,
noting examples of each.
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