B day students reproduction exam on Friday afternoon and A Day students exam is on Monday. Review material on both HL and SL pages.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/04/17/kangaroos-have-three-vaginas/
From the Not Exactly Rocket Science Blog, Ed Young describes the findings from the BBC special Nature's Giants. To read more about this very odd arrangement, click on the link below.
B day students reproduction exam on Friday afternoon and A Day students exam is on Monday. Review material on both HL and SL pages. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/04/17/kangaroos-have-three-vaginas/
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Not withstanding Shakespeare's wishful prose, Why do we need to sleep? This has been an ongoing research topic for years and scientists conjecture about our need for sleep. Click on the link below to access the article from the BBC Future to read more about sleep.http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120228-why-do-we-need-to-sleep
Check out the link below and it might be the time that the sea otter cam is live on the Monterey Bay otters. Nice break from the last weeks before exams.http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/efc/efc_otter/otter_cam.aspx Read the following linked reply article addressing a previously written claim that sugar is a toxin. Afterward, go through the article highlighting topics that have been previously objectives, link as many objectives as possible to the article and create a concept map built around the article itself , sugar/ sucrose --- chemistry of life ( which ones here?)/ nutrition ( which ones here- /hormones homeostasis( which ones here)/digestion ( which ones here) HL students additonally find links to HL material. There are a great many links in this article to topics not just the ones mentioned above. Be creative.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all Read the following linked article in the New York Times about a community of banana slugs in the Pacific Northwest. a. State what the biome for that region is and draw a reasonable graph associated with that area. b. Draw a labeled population curve for the banana slugs and place an X where this community is likely to fall on the curve- explain why you think it should be located there. c.Discuss if the banana slug is undergoing speciation with reference to the article and the population curve. d. Explain what is necessary for a species to undergoing speciation and give an example,from the article, of a species that is likely to be undergoing speciation and why. e. Draw a detailed food web for this community. f. Outline the trophic levels g. State the genus and species for the banana slug.
Topic: Ecology/Evolution Option Topics: Ecology Evolution Extra extra credit: i.State what type of learning the bonobos exhibit giving examples from the article and Compare it to another type of learning. ii. State how many command terms are in this post. iii. List them. Option: Neurobiology/learning http://scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/a-thriving-community-of-banana-slugs/?ref=science This is best viewed in full screen so click to view it on Youtube for best effect. From TED Ed. Read the following article on how Scott's ill fated journey from the South pole resulted in failure. In your own words and handwriting, explain how food choices may or may not have doomed the expedition to failure.1. Explain/Discuss a.potential nutritional deficiencies and b. caloric insufficiency. 2.Explain how and where in the human digestive tract the various components would have been digested with two types of diet discussed in the article- camp diet and excursion diet. HL exam takers- explain the mechanism for handling protein in the kidneys stating where in the kidney and also in the nephron this takes place. Options: Nutrition, Topics: Digestion Chemistry of Life/ HL: Kidney. From the BBC world service front page site : Scott's Antarctic diet: Stewed penguin and champagne http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17371543
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