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A quick way to get to the links for assignment R.

A good place to get started for the land biomes.

Other sites:

For the deep ocean - read down a bit for adaptations.

Good info for coral reef organisms.

How oysters survive in the changing conditions in estuaries. (Also look at the general estuaries page)

More good coral reef info.

A bunch of good places to look for genetics news articles

Greetings!

As you know, on Tuesday, you'll be turning in Assignment O, where you pick a topic having to do with genes, genetics, DNA, genetic engineering, genetic research, genomes, genomics etc. (Hey look! I just gave you a good list of search terms!). For assignment O, you'll turn in an explanation of the topic, why you think it's interesting, and citations for two news articles about that topic. (You'll be finding even more articles on the topic next week.)

To help you find articles, here are some good places to look:

• Search Google News or Yahoo News for any of the search terms above
• Science News, the weekly science magazine.
• Articles collected by the NPR science news show Science Friday.
• Biology news from Scientific American.
• Science Daily.
• Science stories from the New York Times. (Try the "browse topics" menu on the right - the "genetic engineering" topic has lots of good stuff!)
• Articles from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Web Pages to Use for W27D1

Overview of Avery's work and the Hershey-Chase experiment.

Good quick overview of the discovery of the structure of DNA.

Another overview of the same material.

Info on Miescher.

A biography of Rosalind Franklin.

If you look at Dec. 11 and 12th in this blog, you'll find a nice overview of Chargaff's discoveries.

An extremely detailed online timeline can be found here.

And, last but not least, a summary timeline from PBS. This is a good one to look at if you're confused!

Some websites for hydra and daphnia

Hydra:

http://www.virtuallaboratory.net/Biofundamentals/lectureNotes/Topic6-1_Communities.htm (look towards the bottom of the page)

http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/images/cnidarians.htm

and Wikipedia (as of this moment) is good on hydra:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(genus)

Daphnia:

Wikipedia is good again:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphnia

Another daphnia page:

http://lhsfoss.org/fossweb/teachers/materials/plantanimal/daphnia.html