Peppers_Biology

Online Textbook district hyperlinked, Teacher's Edition

Healthy plants reflect more near-infrared light than stressed plants, so bright red indicates dense, growing foliage. For this reason, biologists and ecologists occasionally use infrared cameras to photograph forests. 

 Trilobites may be the archetypal fossils, symbols of an archaic world long swept beneath the ruthless road grader of time. But we should all look so jaunty after half a billion years.

Introducing your students to Scratch will provide your students with hands-on opportunities to think creatively, solve problems and work collaboratively.  Scratch is a visual programming platform created at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab and is available to all users free of charge. This web-based tool is designed for students ages 8 to 16 but used by people of all ages.  With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations - and share your creations with others in the online community.

Summary of research investigating purpose of introns.

article addresses student question, "Why do cells use uracil, when thymine is already available?"

Article describing possible function of introns.

2013 report on climate change

great creative homework assignments for key concepts/broad topics

Guide to writing lab reports.  Share with 11th graders taking college credit.

4:32 rap video about DNA

10 min video on replication

28 min video on DNA, RNA, protein

2:51 minute video about mechanics of transcription and translation 

3:32 minute video about transcription and translation of insulin

3:35 minute video trailer for protein synthesis

7 minute video summarizing translation, cartoon style

4 minute video introducing Central dogma

Animation of the central Dogma 10 minutes

In recent years, Claverie and his colleagues have discovered a host of giant viruses, which are as big as bacteria but lack characteristic cellular machinery and metabolism of those microorganisms. At least one family of these viruses likely evolved from single-celled parasites after losing essential genes, although the origins of other giant viruses remain a mystery, Claverie said.