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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 1 Comparing Cell Structures Wo

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Complete the following charts comparing

prokaryotes and eukaryotes, plant and animal cells,
and cells and viruses.

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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?

BIO 240 Week 1 DQ 2 Virus (UOP)

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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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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

BIO 240 Week 2 DQ 1 (UOP)

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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?

BIO 240 Week 2 DQ 2 (UOP)

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Would two identical twins growing up in different

neighborhood grow up differently?

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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

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Craig Venter made a new life form (a bacterium)
from scratch essentially from computer database,
and a few bottles of chemicals:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0521/J.-Craig-V
enter-Institute-creates-first-synthetic-life-form
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/science/21cell.
html
If 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?

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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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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.

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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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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).

What kind of selection pressures could have been at

work here, based on species adaptations, climate
changes, and shifting landmasses?

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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

BIO 240 Week 5 Human Evolution Paper and Pr

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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.

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