Note: Most materials are from Spring, 2005; Spring 2006 materials
are being added as they are developed. Check the dates on each item
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Biology
109 Course Materials
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General:
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Spring 2006 Syllabus
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Blackboard -- you will have
access to Blackboard sites for both lecture and lab. The lecture
site has all the lecture & lab materials as well as PowerPoint handouts;
it doesn't have all the external links that this site has. You can
view your grades in the on-line gradebooks in both the lecture and lab
sites.
Lab
Handouts: Lab handouts provide pre-lab reading assignments, homework
assignments and due dates, quiz information, and more. Read them
before lab; most should be printed out and brought to lab. All material
posted here is for Spring, 2006.
Unit
1: Introduction to the Human Body & its Scientific Study (Spring 2006)
Unit
2: Diet, Nutrition & Digestion (Spring 2005)
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Topic and resource outline
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Lecture notes
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Study guide
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Links
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The Centers for Disease Control has excellent resources on overweight and
obesity.
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Take the NHLBI-Portion
Distortion Quiz , a real eye-opener!
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The Harvard School of Public Health has some fabulous resources. Start
with Nutrition
Source, Harvard School of Public Health , the main gateway.
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The 2005
Dietary Guidelines for Americans is the latest set of science-based
recommendations on healthy eating from the US Department of Agriculture.
It's an easy read and well worth the time.
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The National Weight Control Registry
is a research study of over 4,000 individuals, each of whom has lost significant
amounts of weight and kept it off for significant amounts of time.
The site includes personal stories and references to publications arising
from the study.
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Caloriesperhour.com
is a free public diet/nutrition/weight-loss site with many good resources,
including food and exercise calorie calculators, tutorials on a variety
of nutrition and weight-loss topics, public discussion boards, and more.
I can't vouch for everything you might read there, but much of the information
seems sound and consistent with the best current thinking.
Unit
3: Exericse (Spring 2006)
Unit
4: Infectious Disease (Spring 2005)
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Topic and resource outline
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Lecture notes
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Study guide
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Links
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The National Institutes of Health book, Microbes:
in Sickness and in Health , is a very good introduction to microbes,
and a source for some of the lecture material. Emerging
Infectious Disease Publications at the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is a good place to learn more about emerging
infectious disease.
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The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention website is a great place to find out more about a variety
of infectious disease topics. CDC
- Diseases & Conditions lets you look up specific diseases; Emerging
infectious diseases: disease information: NCID: CDC is a good place
to learn more about emerging infectious diseases. For tons of good
information about immunization, see the National Immunization Program:
NIP:
Public Home page .
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If you'd like to learn more about the history of the bubonic plague, check
out The
Great Mortality by Melissa Snell. For an outstanding collection
of source material (including the materials I read in class), see Mosaic:
The Black Death.
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Of course you want to know more about STI's! A good place to start
is the CDC
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases portal. The links on the left
take you to sites with detailed information on specific diseases.
The CDC-NCHSTP-Divisions
of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP) Home Page is an excellent resource with
just about every kind of information possible about HIV/AIDS, including
a number of PowerPoint slide shows on AIDS epidemiology, mortality, risk
groups, etc. Finally, Planned Parenthood's page The
Condom has invaluable information about condom use and safe sex, including
sample dialogues to use when discussing condom use with a sex partner.
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The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was a truly dark incident in the history of
modern medicine. Find out more about the study and the reforms it
led to at the CDC
Tuskegee Syphilis Study home page (use the link to "timeline" at the
left of the page).
Unit
5: The Nervous System (Spring 2005)
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