Course Topics and Resources

Study Guides, Lecture and Other Handouts and Resources

• Introduction to Human Biology and the Process of Science Study Guide

• Intro Lecture Slides and Process of Science Lecture Slides

Other Handouts:

• Process of Science

In Class Viewings:

• Science in America

• John Oliver: Climate Change Debate

• Power of the Placebo Effect

• Recommended Viewings: Domains and Kingdoms of Life Amoeba Sisters: Biological Levels What's the Difference Between a Scientific Law and a Theory? How Science Works

• How to Spot a Misleading Graph

• Categories of Experimental Design Applicable to Human Health Confounding

Laboratory Activities and Related Handouts and Resources

• Read Lab Rules1 and watch Lab Rules 2

Resources for Lab:

• Safety Video (Please be sure to watch)

• "Testing" Advertising Claims

• Essential Components of Scientific Studies

• Ads Used for the Activity

• Activia

• Airborne

• Dermology Cellulite Cream

• Listerine

• Olay

• POMx

• Rice Krispies

• Skeechers

• Zumba

More Resources for Lab:

• Kinds of Data

• Graph Types and Guidelines

• Metric System of Measurement

• How to Calculate the Mean (Average)

• How to Calculate Percentages

• More on Percentages

More Animations, Tutorials etc...

Process of Science Resources

• Making Sense How Life Fits Together

• Levels of Organization Inside the Minds of Animals

• Understanding Science: How Science Really Works

• Theory vs Hypothesis vs Law Explained

• Peer Review Process

• Not all Scientific Studies are Created Equal

• Anecdotes

• What is Pseudoscience?

• Scientific Integrity

• Clinicaltrials.gov

• Epidemiology Study Types: Randomized Control Trial

• How the Powerful Placebo Works

• Placebo Effect Makes Good Medicine Better

• Understanding Large Numbers

• Evaluation Websites: Why and How

• Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial

• Helpful Hints for Reading Critically

• Statistics for Science

• How Statistics can be Misleading

• Why You Should Love Statistics

• Is There a Reproducibility Crisis in Science

• Retraction Watch

• Nature Rx

• Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Literature

• 5 Tips to Improve Your Critical Thinking

• How to Read a Scientific Paper

• How to (Seriously) Read a Scientific Paper

• Three World Changing Biological Experiments

• Why the Metric System Matters

• Accident That Save the World

Study Guides, Lecture and Other Handouts and Resources

Cell Structure and Function Study Guide and Lecture Slides

In Class Viewings:

• Cell Size and Scale

• What is the Biggest Single-Celled Organism?

• Plasma Membrane and the Fluid Mosaic Model

• How Diffusion Works

• Candy Colors

• Diffusion and Osmosis

• Osmosis Rap

• A Quick Diffusion Activity

• Active Transport

Recommended Viewings:

• Introduction to Cells

• Why are Cells Small?

• Inner Life of a Cell

• The Plasma Membrane and the Fluid Mosaic Model

• Insights Into Cell Membranes Via Dish Detergent

• Active, Passive and Bulk Transport

• Amoeba Sisters: Osmosis and Water Potential

• Mitochondria Chalk Talk

• Cell Respiration

• Cellular Respiration (more detailed explanation)

• Microscope: The Tube That Changed The World

• The Cell Song

Laboratory Activities and Related Handouts and Resources

Diffusion and Surface Area Lab

Microscopes and Cells Lab

Resources for Lab:

• Microscope Operation Handout (make sure to bring it to class)

• How to Prepare and View Elodea Cells

• How to Prepare a Wet Mount of Cheek Cells

• Take This Virtual Microscope Tour

More Animations, Tutorials etc...

Cell Structure and Function Resources

• Wacky History of the Cell Theory

• Visualizing the Wonder of a Living Cell

• Inside a Cell

• Inside a Human Cell

• Amazing Cells

• 10 Craziest Things Cells Do

• How Big is a...

• Magnifying the Universe

• Plant, Animal and Bacteria Cell Models

• An Interactive Tour of the Cell

• Cellular Organization Hierarchies

• Operating System of Life

• How we Think Complex Cells Evolved

• Identifying Cell Organelles

• Cell Membrane Transport

• Cell Membranes are Way More Complicated Than You Think

• How Facilitated Diffusion Works

• How Osmosis Works

• Cellular Respiration

• Cellular Respiration Song

• Lysosomes

• Endomembrane System

• Endo and Exocytosis Principles of Microscopy History of Early Microscopy

• Electro Swing Pond Life

• Amazing World Seen Through the Microscope

• How to Make Your Own Microscope Using Your Smartphone

Study Guides, Lecture and Other Handouts and Resources

Skeletal System Study Guide and Lecture Slides

In Class Viewing:

• Long Bone Formation and Growth

• Bone Remodeling and Modeling

• Bone Remodeling - Martial Arts

• Principles of Fracture Healing

• What Happens to Your Body When You Break a Bone

Recommended Viewings:

• Introduction to Bone Biology

• Osteoblasts and Osteoclasts

• Living With Osteoporosis

• Crash Course: Skeletal System

• Crash Course: Joints

Laboratory Activities and Related Handouts and Resources

Bones and Muscles Lab (go down to the next topic to see other resources needed for the Muscles portion of the lab)

• Links for the Virtual Portion of the Lab: Cartilage Bones Muscles Resources for Bones Section of the Lab: Cooked and Acid Soaked Chicken Bones

• Comparison of Major Features of Vertebrae

More Animations, Tutorials etc...

• Skeletal System Resources

• Skeletal System Tutorial

• Skull Anatomy Tutorial

• eSkeletons Project

• Lessons from a Bone Box

• Welcome to the Bone Box

• Comparison of Vertebrae

• Development of Bone

• Bone Remodeling Animation

• How Modern Humans Got Lighter Bones

• The Benefits of Good Posture

• Why Sitting is Bad For You

• How to Grow a Bone

• Osteoporosis

• Sprains and Strains

• Learning from Skeletons

• Explore Forensics

• Written in Bone

• What Makes Your Knuckles Pop

• X-Ray Body in Motion

• How X-Rays See Through Your Skin

Study Guides, Lecture and Other Handouts and Resources

Nervous System Study Guide

Neuron & Nervous System Lecture Slides and CNS and PNS Lecture Slides

Other Handouts and Study Aides:

• Action Potential Worksheet

• Music and the Brain

In Class Viewings:

• Nerve Conduction

• Action Potential and another on Action Potentials

• Lights, Camera, Action Potential

• Synaptic Transmission and another on Synapses

• Dopamine Flood

• World's Most Dangerous Drug

• A Map of the Brain (first 4 min)

• Anatomy of the Spinal Cord and How it Works

• Right Brain, Left Brain

• What is Alzheimer's Disease

• CTE Found in 99% of Studied Brains From Deceased NFL Players

• The NFL's Concussion Crisis Explained

Recommended Viewings:

• Nerve Impulse

• Bozeman Science: The Neuron

• Bozeman Science: The Action Potential

• My Love Affair With the Brain

• Bozeman Science: The Brain

• Introduction to the Central Nervous System

• Crash Course: Meet Your Master, Getting to Know Your Brain

• How Memories Form and How We Lose Them

• What is so Special About the Human Brain?

• What Happens When You Have a Concussion?

• Left Brain Versus Right Brain Myth

• Brain Changing Benefits of Exercise

• The Paralyzed Rat That Walked

• Your Brain on Coffee

Extra Credit Viewing:

• Frontline-League of Denial: NFL Concussion Crisis

Laboratory Activities and Related Handouts and Resources

Nervous System Lab

Lab Resources:

• Digital Video: Sheep Brain

• Basic Structure Human Brain Figure 1 and Figure 2

• Testing a Students Proprioceptive Reflex

• Texting While Driving Increases Crash Risk

More Animations, Tutorials etc...

Nervous System Resources

• Nervous System Tutorial

• Lights, Camera, Action Potential

• Electrical Activity of Neurons

• Voltage Gated Channels and the Action Potential

• The Schwann Cell and Action Potential

• The Brain From Top to Bottom

• What if we Could Look Inside a Human Brain?

• Khan Academy Application: Neuron Structure and Function

• The Neurons That Shaped Civilizations

• Your Brain is You

• Neuroanatomy Made Ridiculously Simple

• The Most Important Lesson From 83,000 Brain Scans

• What Percentage of Your Brain do you Use?

• What Happens if You Remove the Hippocampus?

• How Spontaneous Brain Activity Keeps You Alive

• Could Your Brain Repair Itself?

• The Brain May be Able to Repair Itself

• SciShow: The Teenage Brain Explained

• Crash Course: Central Nervous System

• Crash Course: Peripheral Nervous System

• Crash Course: Autonomic Nervous System

• Crash Course: Sympathetic Nervous System

• Crash Course: Parasympathetic Nervous System

• SciShow: Are People Really Right or Left Brained?

• Diagnosing a Zombie: Brain and Behavior

• How Does Caffeine Keep us Awake?

• The Benefits of a Bilingual Brain

• How Playing an Instrument Benefits Your Brain

• The Reward Pathway Reinforces Behavior

• Science of Addiction

• Mouse Party

• This is What Happens to Your Brain on Opiods

• Why is Yawning Contagious?

• The Quest to Understand Consciousness

• What Would Happen if You Didn't Sleep?

• What is Bipolar Disorder?

• NSF and the Brain Initiative

• UCTV: The Brain Channel

• Everything we Think About Addiction is Wrong

• You Can Grow New Brain Cells

• Sleep: Why we Need it and What Happens Without it

• Another Reason to Get a Good Nights Sleep

• Autism

• Dancing With Parkinson's Disease

• iBiology: Neurodegenerative Disease

• Why Helmets Don't Prevent Concussions and What Might?

• Aphasia: The Disorder That Makes You Lose Your Words

• Neuroscience of Imagination

• UCTV: What Do We Know About Meditation and Health?

• UCTV: How Your Brain Can Turn Anxiety into Calmness

• UCTV: Making an Old Brain Young

• UCTV: Neurons in a Dish

• Is There Scientific Proof We Can Heal Ourselves?

Study Guides, Lecture and Other Handouts and Resources

Endocrine System Study Guide and Lecture Slides

Additional Required Reading

• Endocrine Disruption Factsheet

Other Handouts and Study Aides:

• Major Hormones Table

• Pituitary Songs

In Class Viewings:

• How Does the Thyroid Work?

• Role of Insulin in the Body

• Fight or Flight Response

• Can Stress Actually Kill You?

• Hunger and Hormones: A Vicious Cycle

• Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals

Suggested Viewings:

• How Do Your Hormones Work?

• Bozeman Science: Endocrine System

• TEDx: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals

Laboratory Activities and Related Handouts and Resources

Endocrine System Virtual Lab

Link for Virtual Lab:

• Endocrine

More Animations, Tutorials etc...

Endocrine System Resources

• Endocrine System Tutorial

• Endocrine System Quiz

• Great Glands: Your Endocrine System

• Crash Course: Endocrine System Part 1

• Crash Course: Endocrine System Part 2

• Actions of Hormones

• Hormonal Communication

• Mechanism of Steroid Hormone Action

• 2nd Messenger cAMP

• Diabetes and the Body

• Blood Sugar Regulation in Diabetics

• UCTV: Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes

• Action of Glucocorticoid Hormone

• Stress Response

• How Stress Affects Your Body

• How Stress Affects Your Brain

• Stress: Portrait of a Killer

• Glucose Metabolism for the Endocrine System

• What did Dogs Teach us About Diabetes?

• Signal Transduction

• Our Natural Sleep Cycle

• Pathophysiology of the Endocrine System

• The Smelly Mystery of Human Pheromones

• TEDx List of Potential Endocrine Disruptors

• Our Stolen Future: Low Dose Effects of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals

• Hormone Health Network: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals

• Story of Cosmetics

• Performance Enhancing Drugs

• Leptin Feedback Control System

• This is Your Body Over 24 Hours

• How Does Your Body Know What Time It Is?

Study Guides, Lecture and Other Handouts and Resources

Cardiovascular System: Blood Study Guide and Lecture Slides

In Class Viewings:

• Components of Blood and Their Importance

• Blood Doping

• The Problem With Sickle Cell Anemia

• White Blood Cell Types and Functions

• Why Blood Types Matter

• Crash Course: Blood Part 1 (start at 4:50 through 6:20 seconds)

Recommended Viewings:

• How Does Blood Clot

• Crash Course: Blood Part 1 and Part 2

• Lance Armstrong Admits Doping and Confession

Laboratory Activities and Related Handouts and Resources

Cardiovascular System Lab (same handout as posted for the previous cardiovascular topic)

Handout for the Blood Portion of the Lab:

• Blood Types by Donors and Receivers

More Animations, Tutorials etc...

Cardiovascular System - Blood Resources:

• How Stuff Works: The Circulatory System

• Khan Academy: Hematologic System Introduction

• What is Blood?

• Fuse School: What is Blood?

• Blood: The Body's Vital Defense Force

• What Color is Your Blood?

• Red Blood Cell Production

• Anemia

• Sickle Cell Anemia: A Patient's Journey

• Malaria and Sickle Cell Anemia

• iBiology: Human Blood Groups

• Bozeman Science: Blood Types

• SciShow: There Are Millions of Blood Type "Microcosmos"

• Blood Typing Game

• How Does Blood Clot

• How a Wound Heals Itself

• Blood Clotting

• Blood Clot Formation

• Hemostasis

• Interpreting Hematology Lab Results

• Blood Cell Bakery

• What is Leukemia

• Donating Blood

• Blood Disorders

Study Guides, Lecture and Other Handouts and Resources

Body Defenses Study Guide and Lecture Slides

Other Handout:

• Body Defenses Handout

In Class Viewings:

• Lymphatic System

• White Blood Cell Types and Functions

• How White Blood Cells (Neutrophils) Work

• See the War Inside Your Body

• Killer T Cell: The Cancer Assassin

• How do Vaccines Work?

• Vacines, Herd Immunity, and Gummi Bears

Suggested Viewings:

• Crash Course Your Immune System: Natural Born Killer

• Immune System: Natural Killer Cells

• Crash Course The Immune System Part 1 and Part 2

Laboratory Activities and Related Handouts and Resources

Body Defenses Virtual Lab

Links for Lab:

• Lymphoid Tissue

• Blood and Bone Marrow

More Animations, Tutorials etc...

Immune System Resources

• The Immune System

• Immune Response

• Immune System Explained I: Bacterial Infection

• Cells of the Immune System

• Three Arms of the Adaptive Immune Response

• Immune System Rap Part 1 and 2

• UCTV Immune System101: the Basics

• UCTV Immune System 101 Playlist

• Ouch! Anatomy of a Splinter

• Beware What Lurks in Dust Bunnies

• Making Antibodies

• Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes

• Cytotoxic T Cell

• The Complement System

• Antigen Presentation and CTL

• Allergies

• Allergies and the Immune System

• Medline: Allergy

• American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology

• CDC Vaccines and Immunizations

• Influenze Vaccination

• The Power of Herd Immunity

• How Mucus Keeps us Healthy

• Frontline: The Vaccine War

• Salk Institute: Bubble Boy Disease

• Nature of Things: Antibiotic Hunters

• The Surprising Reason You Feel Awful When Your Sick

Study Guides, Lecture and Other Handouts and Resources

Digestive System Study Guide and Lecture Slides

Other Handout:

• Nutrients and Digestion

In Class Viewing:

• The Digestive System

• Xray of Swallowing

• Sword Swallowing

• Peristalsis

• Heartburn

• What Does The Liver Do?

• What Does Your Pancreas Do?

• Sphincters: The Fascinating Truth

• You Are Your Microbes

• Can Poop Cure an Infection?

Recommended Viewings:

• How Your Digestive System Works

• Crash Course: Digestive System (3 parts)

• What Does Your Uvula Do?

• How the Food You Eat Affects Your Gut

• The Hungry Microbiome: Why Resistant Starch is Good for You

• Perfect Your Poop Pose

• The Surprising Cause of Stomach Ulcers

Laboratory Activities and Related Handouts and Resources

Digestive System Lab

Link for Virtual Portion of the Lab:

• JayDoc HistoWeb GI Tract

Resources for Lab:

• The Evolution of Lactose Tolerance

• Natural Selection of Lactose Tolerance

• Lactose Digestion in Infants

• Additional Resource for Lab:

• Regulation of the Lactase Gene

More Animations, Tutorials etc...

Digestive System Resources

• Overview of the Digestive System

• Organs of Digestion

• Digestive System Tutorial

• Your Digestive System and How it Works

• How Does Digestion Work?

• UCTV Dentistry

• Teeth Song

• What Lives Inside Your Mouth

• What Causes Bad Breath

• What Causes Cavities

• Swallowing

• Stomach Digestion

• Three Phases of Gastric Secretion

• Heartburn, Acid Reflex, GERD

• Role and Anatomy of the Pancreas

• What is Lactose Intolerance?

• The Science of Milk

• Why do we Pass Gas?

• Why do we Like Our Own Farts?

• Why is my Poop Green?

• What Does Your Poop Say About You?

• What Causes Constipation?

• Liver Disease

• Hormones and Gastric Secretion

• Harmful Effects of Medicine on the Adult Digestive System

• What Your Poop Type and Color Mean?

• What Happens When You Swallow Hair?

• Removal of a Colon Polyp

• Regulation of the Lactase Gene

• Introducing the Gut Microbiome

• American Gut

• The Gut Flora

• The Fate of Fat

• How Does Your Body Process Medicine?

Study Guides, Lecture and Other Handouts and Resources

Urinary System Study Guide and Lecture Slides

In Class Viewings:

• Crash Course Urinary System Part 1

• ADH and the Water Balance of the Body What Happens if You Hold Your Pee? Kidney Stones

• What is Chronic Kidney Disease? How Does Dialysis Work? Is a Kidney Transplant an Option? Suggested Viewings: Crash Course Urinary System Part 2

• Function of the Nephron Made Easy

• Six Patients, Six Donors Paying it Forward

Laboratory Activities and Related Handouts and Resources

Urinary System Lab

Resources for Lab:

• Sheep Kidney Anatomy (start at 1:45 minutes)

• 7 Things to Know About Number 1

• What's Making Your Urine Smell?

Link for Urinary Lab:

• Urinary

More Animations, Tutorials etc...

Urinary System Resources

• Urinary System Tutorial

• Your Urinary System and How it Works

• Urinary System

• Crash Course Excretory System: From Your Heart to the Toilet

• How do our Kidneys Work

• Kidney Function

• Glomerular Filtration

• Glomerular Filtration Made Easy

• Loop of Henle Explained

• Bladder Function

• How do we Pee?

• What Your Pee Says About You

• Drinking Your Own Pee

• What if You Stopped Drinking Water?

• Is it Bad to Hold Your Pee?

• Micturition Reflex

• Hormonal Control ADH

• Aldosterone and ADH

• Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System

• Treatment Methods for Kidney Failure

• Kidney Stones in Adults

Study Guides, Lecture and Other Handouts and Resources

Development Throughout Life Study Guide and Lecture Slides

In Class Viewings:

• Fertilization

• Human Development

• Cell Division in a Fertilized Egg

• Differentiation and the Fate of Cells

• Formation of Twins

• Inside Pregnancy: Weeks 1 through 9

• Development of the Human Embryonic Brain

• Inside Pregnancy: Weeks 10 through 14

• Inside Pregnancy: Weeks 15 through 20

• Inside Pregnancy: Weeks 21 through 27

• Inside Pregnancy: Weeks 28 through 37

• Labor and Birth

• Critical Windows of Development

• Toxic Baby

• Why are Teens So Moody?

• What is Aging?

• What Happens When You Die?

• How to Live to be 100+

• Creating Embryonic Stem Cell Lines

Suggested Viewings:

• Star Wars Youth Biology

• The Three Different Ways Mammals Give Birth

• Telomeres and Aging

• Why do Animals Have Such Different Lifespans

• What Happens to Our Bodies After we Die?

• Nature of Stem Cells

• How to Clone a Sheep

• Teenage Brain Explained

• I Want to be a Clone

• What is Cloning?

• The Clone Named Dolly

Laboratory Activities and Related Handouts and Resources

No laboratory exercises for development throughout life

More Animations, Tutorials etc...

Development Throughout Life Resources

• Crash Course: Pregnancy and Development

• Conception to Birth Visualized

• Crash Course Animal Development

• How do Pregnancy Tests Work?

• Meet the Placenta

• Identical Twins

• Embryo Images

• Visible Embyro

• Guess the Embryo

• Cytoplasmic Factors

• How is Sex Determined?

• Test Your Knowledge of Sex Determination

• PBS: Morphing Embryos

• HHMI Development of the Cerebral Cortex

• Fetal Circulation Right Before Birth

• Labor and Vaginal Birth

• Childbirth Versus Getting Kicked in the Balls

• Cesarean Section - A Brief History

• What we Don't Know About Mother's Milk

• Fetal Development and Risk

• Exposure to Toxic Substances and Preterm Birth

• Endocrine Disruption Exchange

• Preterm Births on the Rise

• Zebrafish: The New Lab Rat

• Exploratorium Inside from the Sea Urchin

• Sea Urchin Embryology

• NOVA Stem Cell Breakthrough

• Stem Cell Basics

• NOVA Stem Cells: Early Research

• What are Stem Cells?

• Understanding Embryonic Stem Cells

• Stem Cells: Growing New Parts

• Can Stem Cells Reverse Aging?

• HHMI Stem Cells, Cloning and Regeneration

• Exploratorium Stem Cells

• Peep Surgery

• Adolescent Brain

• Science of Aging

• Why We Age - And How We Can Stop It

• HHMI Structure and Function of Telomeres

• NOVA Can We Live Forever?

• National Geographic: In the Womb

• National Geographic: In the Womb Multiples

• What Makes a Good Life

• Blue Zones

• A Very Short History of Death

• At What Moment Are You Dead?

• TED Talks: New Ways to Think About Death

• 20 Things you Didn't Know About Death

• What we can do to Die Well

Study Guides, Lecture and Other Handouts and Resources

Genetics and Human Inheritance Study Guide and Lecture Slides

Other Handout/Study Aide:

• Genetics Practice Problems

In Class Viewing:

• Monohybrid Crosses and Punnet Squares

• Punnet Squares and Dihybrid Crosses

• PBS What is Race?

Suggested Viewings:

• Bozeman Science Beginners Guide to Punnet's Squares

• Amoeba Sisters Multiple Alleles and Punnet Squares

• Amoeba Sisters Incomplete Dominance, Codominance, Polygenic Traits and Epistasis

• Amoeba Sisters Punnet Squares and Sex Linked Traits

• Amoeba Sisters Pedigrees

• HHMI Malaria and Sickle Cell Anemia

Laboratory Activities and Related Handouts and Resources

Genetics and Human Inheritance Activity

• Link to Table for Part 1 of the Genetic Inheritance Activity

If time permits:

• Genetic Risk and the Environment: Rolling the Dice Student Worksheet

More Animations, Tutorials etc...

Genetics Resources

• Crash Course Heredity

• Where do Genes Come From?

• Genetics and Cell Division Keyword Definitions

• Tour of Basic Genetics

• Observable Characteristics of Inheritance

• Chromosomes and Inheritance

• Bozeman Science Genetics

• Bozeman Science Chromosomal Genetics

• Bozeman Science Genotypes and Phenotypes

• Bozeman Science Mendelian Genetics

• Bozeman Science Advanced Genetics

• Bozeman Science Probability in Genetics

• How Mendel's Pea Plants Helped us Understand Genetics

• Quia Mendel's Law of Heredity

• Mendelian Genetics

• Genomics 101

• Sex Determination is More Complicated Than You Thought

• Are Blue Eyes Endangered?

• Skin Color is an Illusion

• Skin Color Interactive Video

• Blood Type Calculator

• National Human Genome Research Institute

• Genetic Disorders

Study Guides, Lecture and Other Handouts and Resources

Cancer Study Guide and Lecture Slides

Other Handout:

• ACS Guidelines for Early Cancer Detection

In Class Viewings:

• How Does Cancer Spread Through the Body?

• Angiogenesis

• Eukaryotic Cell Cycle and Cancer

• What Happens When Your DNA is Damaged

• P53 Gene and Cancer

• How do Cancer Cells Behave Differently From Healthy Ones?

Suggested Viewings:

• Cancer 101

• Cancer as a Genetic Disease

• Animated Introduction to Cancer Biology

• Who's at Risk for Colon Cancer?

• Teratomas: What Tumors Teach Us About Stem Cells

Laboratory Activities and Related Handouts and Resources

No laboratory exercises for development throughout life

More Animations, Tutorials etc...

Cancer Resources

• Cancer: Cells Behaving Badly

• Cell Cycle and Cancer Animations

• Eukaryotic Cell Cycle and Cancer

• Amoeba Sisters Cell Cycle and Cancer

• The Cancer Gene we all Have

• Metastasis

• Inside Cancer

• CancerQuest

• How Tumor Suppressor Genes Block Cell Division

• Telemerase Function

• Henrietta Lacks: A Donor's Immortal Legacy

• Cell Biology and Cancer

• Cancer Genome Atlas

• National Cancer Institute

• American Cancer Society

• UCTV Cancer Biology 101

• UCTV Understanding the Basics of Oncology From Diagnosis to Treatment

• 200 Years of Cancer Research

• EWG: Rethinking Cancer

• Models of Breast Cancer Causation

• Why Blue Whales Don't Get Cancer

Study Guides, Lecture and Other Handouts and Resources

Ecology and Human Impacts on the Environment Study Guide and Lecture Slides

In Class Viewings:

• Ecosystem Services

• Food Webs and Energy Pyramids

• What if the World Went Vegetarian?

• Biogeochemical Cycles (2 min to 6 min)

• How Wolves Change Rivers

• What the Frack is Going on?

• Midway

• What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

• Greenhouse Effect

• 135 Years of Warming in 30 Seconds

• Hunting for Methane

• Acid Seas

• Extra Credit Viewings: The Case for Optimism on Climate Change Elon Musk Unveils Solar Roof Story of Stuff Sustainability Explained

• Circular Economy

Suggested Viewings:

• Dear Future Generations

• Food Chains

• The Hydrologic and Carbon Cycles

• Carbon Footprint

• 7 Billion and Counting

• What are Carbon Footprints?

• Consensus on Consensus

Laboratory Activities and Related Handouts and Resources

Ecological Impact Virtual Lab

Links for Lab:

• Lifestyle Survey and the Lifestyle Survey Key

• Ecological Footprint Calculator

• FAQs for the Ecological Footprint Calculator

• Cool Climate Calculator (also called the carbon footprint calculator)

• Fueleconomy.gov

• SF Bay Area Carbon Footprint Map