| Content | Brief description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| The lizard paper | Combines evolution, mutation, pigmentation, signaling, transport | the Paper Vocab, PPT, Keynote |
| Bruce Nicklas pulls on chromosomes | Wonderful, illuminating experiments done by actually pulling on chromosomes | Paper 1 |
| The parasite collection | Combines 'yuck' with 'wow'. Collection of papers advancing claim that parasites alter host behavior. Selected (aided by Kevin Baker) for including data amenable to simple statistical analysis (infected vs. clean behavior) | Raw collection (not yet formatted, but info is present) |
| The sex collection | Always an interesting topic; the strange ways of animals | Raw collection |
| pH, miraculin, rats and you | A fun paper when combined with lemon-tasting and miraculin pills Illustrates structure-function studies; reinforces pH concepts |
the Paper Vocab, PPT, Keynote |
| Mendel and the Peas | Forget the results; look at the thoughtful preparation. Focus on selection of organism, strains, traits | the actual paper |
| Bending an RNA to our will | Demonstrates how RNA can be both genetic material and functional product | paper |
| Hydrogen bonds & identity | A GTPase is converted to an XTPase (xanthosine) because... we understand structer and H-banding | Paper Similar study with a rab GTPase |
| Befriending dogs | A very cool effort from 'Science in the Classroom (AAAS) takes a paper and annotates, provides guidance and insights, in-line glossary, etc. | Paper: mitochondrially-generated tree-of-dogs (includes extinct) |