| BACKGROUND AND
PREPARATION |
| GOALS |
PRESENTATIONS |
ACTIVITIES |
- Review genetics and inheritance.
- Apply understanding of inheritance and natural
selection to human evolutionary history.
|
Genetics and
Human Evolution
|
Hominid
Skull Lab
|
- Examine human population dynamics in the context of
evolution
- Establish economic/ecologic factors that might be
affecting current and future path of human evolution.
|
Demographics
and Ecological Economics
|
Demographics
and Resource Use
- The Demographics Game [link]
- Hans Rosling TED talk [link]
- Gapminder [link]
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EXAMPLES OF MENDELIAN
INHERITANCE
MENDELIAN GENETICS AND INHERITANCE
- Basic Principles of Genetics from Palomar College [link]
- Introduction to Mendelian genetics and inheritance
from Maricopa Community College [link]
- Mendelian genetics, genetic crosses problem set and
sex-linked traits from University of Arizona [link]
COLOR BLIND EXAMPLE
- Physiology of color vision from Howard Hughes
Medical Center [link]
- Simple family tree with inheritance of color-blind
trait from University of Arizona [link]
- The Causes of Color--a website about color vision,
color in art and color blindness [link]
- Hidden Talent--this page is full of color blind
tests [link]
- Colors for the color-blind--website design and
color charts for color-blind people [link]
- PowerPoint with detailed pedigree/genetic cross
color blind example and lots of background [PPT
download]
SICKLE CELL ANEMIA EXAMPLE (also saw with Blood topic)
- Sickle cell anemia overview [link]
- Animated video of Plasmodium life
cycle [link]
- Read background and see video about relation
between malaria and sickle cell anemia in West Africa [link]
- Do this self-guided tutorial on sickle cell anemia
and its relationship with malaria--I suggest doing it step by step and
really trying to answer the questions. It's a great review on genetics,
some cell and molecular biology and evolution by point mutations in DNA. [link]
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WEB RESOURCES
-
DNA
from the beginning to get great understanding of relation between
molecular genes and "classical genetics" [link]
-
Life
cycle website: From meiosis to fertilization [link]
-
Simple meiosis animation from John Kyrk
[link]
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Similar animation from Cells Alive [link]
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Another meiosis animation--this one has
more text explanation, but not-so-great graphics [link]
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Human Genome Project [link]
-
NHGRI (National Human Genome Research
Institute) [link]
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NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology
Information) [link]
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BioInformatics [link]
Ethan White website--allometry
and ecological patterns [link]
James Brown website [link] |
