I’ve decided to bring back the Endless Forms Most Beautiful weekly column. It was quite popular with last year’s students and I accidentally let it fall by the wayside this year. You can see all the previous EFMB posts here. In an earlier EFMB post I mentioned that deserts are misunderstood as being “lifeless”...
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Blogging Biology, The Scientist Science Online ‘09 – Saturday 10:15am, A Blog Around the Clock What Your Future Students Think, Duke University Center for Instructional Technology Science Online ‘09: Learning science with social media, Nobel Intent Science Online ‘09 – Miss Baker and Her Students, Deep Sea News Science Online – Middle/High School Perspective,...
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By Caitlin Betül Kacar is currently a PhD student at Emory University. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Istanbul, Turkey, where she was born and spent 20 years of her life, and received her graduate degree in Biomolecular Chemistry from Emory University. She will be attending the Science Online ‘09 conference. Why are you...
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by Stephen In a nut shell, sexual reproduction increases genetic variation and allows organisms to evolve in changing environments by pairing beneficial traits together which would in turn get passed on to subsequent generations and to do away with harmful variations. Asexual reproducing organisms create exact replicas and in theory would be unable to...
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