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BIO 240 Entire Course (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT BIO 240 Week 1 DQ 1 Cells BIO 240 Week 1 DQ 2 Virus BIO 240 Week 1 Comparing Cell Structures Worksheet BIO 240 Week 1 Photosynthesis and Respiration Paper

BIO 240 Week 1 Comparing Cell Structures Worksheet (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT Complete the following charts comparing prokaryotes and eukaryotes, plant and animal cells, and cells and viruses.

BIO 240 Week 1 DQ 1 Cells (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT What are some of the ways cells communicate similar to the ways we humans communicate with other people or with an organization? How are they different?

BIO 240 Week 1 DQ 2 Virus (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT Would you consider a virus living or non-living? Why? How does this agree or disagree with classification scheme applied by the scientific community?

BIO 240 Week 1 Photosynthesis and Respiration Paper (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper summarizing the events of cellular respiration and photosynthesis and examine the relationship between the two. Include the following in your paper: - For photosynthesis, include a summary of the events in: - The Light Dependent Reaction

BIO 240 Week 2 DQ 1 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT There is a fierce competition among individuals within any species, humans included, to gain access to reproductive privileges. The “fittest” – a term that signifies the largest, prettiest, and most sexually attractive members, succeed in predominantly mating and having offspring, while the less attractive ones often do not. What is the role of such sexual selection from an evolutionary standpoint?

BIO 240 Week 2 DQ 2 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT Would two identical twins growing up in different neighborhood grow up differently?

BIO 240 Week 3 DNA and Protein Synthesis (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT Answer the following questions, in a total of 500 to 700 words. - Describe the structure of DNA and the steps of protein synthesis. - Describe the relationships between the following terms: - DNA - Chromatin material - Gene

BIO 240 Week 3 DQ 1 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT Craig Venter made a new life form (a bacterium) from scratch – essentially from computer database, and a few bottles of chemicals: Institute-creates-first-synthetic-life-form If these and other such DNA-based technologies become widely used, how might they change the way evolution proceeds, as compared with the natural evolutionary mechanisms of the past almost 4 billion years?

BIO 240 Week 3 DQ 2 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT Is there danger of discrimination based on testing for “harmful” genes? Would you support cloning of life forms? How about a human clone? What policies can you suggest that would prevent or permit such practices?

BIO 240 Week 3 Learning Team Outline (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT Submit a minimum of one page draft outline for your Learning Team’s projects. Refer to instructions on final assignment provided under Week 5 details to assist in your research. Any one team member may submit this to the Assignment link.

BIO 240 Week 4 DQ 1 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT Consider the human eye, an exquisitely adapted organ that gives rise to stereo vision in full color (see, for instance, “The Evolution of Primate Color Vision” by Gerald H. Jacobs and Jeremy Nathans, Scientific American, April 2009 issue, pp ). Explain, strictly from within the framework of Darwinian evolution, how natural selection “crafted” such an organ.

BIO 240 Week 4 DQ 2 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT How do you think we could trace back the evolution of organs within our body by hundreds of millions of years – from our reptile ancestors – by examining coevolution patterns and fitness landscapes? Discuss, for instance, the “missing link,” Tiktaalik, that has made headlines around the world (see “Your Inner Fish” by Neil Shubin). What kind of selection pressures could have been at work here, based on species adaptations, climate changes, and shifting landmasses?

BIO 240 Week 4 Natural Selection Paper (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT Write a 1,500- to 1,800-word paper that describes Darwin’s mechanism of evolution by natural selection. Include the following points in your paper: · An explanation of Darwin’s assumptions and inferences based on his major observations. · An example of how natural selection may have worked in a population (for example, moth in New England, drug-resistant bacteria, giraffes

BIO 240 Week 5 Human Evolution Paper and Presentation (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT Prepare a 2,000 to 2,500-word paper, with at least five outside references, in which you examine evolution of our species as we spread across the world. In your paper, be sure to include the following items: - The origin and evolution of vertebrates. - Description of the primate adaptations for living in trees.

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