Assignment Your assignment is to listen to the RadioLab podcast entitled “The Primitive Streak” and report on the story below. The podcast is 30 minutes and can be played through the website below or streamed on any devise at your leisure. Link: http://www.radiolab.org/story/primitive-streak/ This is a writing assignment. To get […]

Human populations originally descended from Africa. From there, several expansions into new habitats and environments resulted in cultural and genetic adaptation. One of these adaptations involved the low-oxygen habitats that occur at high altitude. Residents of the Tibetan Plateau live above 4000m with oxygen concentrations that are nearly half of […]

Researchers recently investigated whether or not coffee prevented the development of high blood sugar (hyperglycemia) in laboratory mice. The mice used in this experiment have a mutation that makes them become diabetic. Read about this research study in this article published on the Science Daily web-site New Evidence That Drinking […]

Assignment: BIOLOGY CONCEPTS AND INVESTIGATIONS. MARIELLE HOEFNAGELS. THIRD EDITION 1. (CHAPTER1) Imagine that you are a scientist working with one of the first research teams sent to the planet Mars. One day, while digging in one of your research plots, you discover something new in the soil. You think it […]