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Tuesday
26 Aug.

  

Introduction to the course
read: What are biofundamentals and Science and its Methods

Murray Gell-Mann:
Beauty & truth
The end of science, revisted
Sokal: what is science?
Thursday
28 Aug.
tutorial		  

Before class complete tutorial
 Read  Life's Origins (on the biofundamentals web site)  
Watch John Maynard Smith: Origin of life
over the weekend, fill out the Biology Concept Inventory
   

Tuesday
2 Sept.
tutorial

   Evolution's
Inevitability
Thursday
4 Sept.
tutorial		   Speciation
& Extinction
     
Tuesday
9 Sept.
tutorial  		  Adaptation
& Selection
Thursday
11 Sept.
tutorial		  

Sexual selection and non-adaptive processes:
listen to Maydianne Andrade
on sexual selection & mating strategies 
Genetic
drift
lab
The science of love
& the future of women
Unconscious responses
Free will versus
the mechanical brain
 
 
Tuesday
16 Sept.
tutorial		  

Homology       read: Flightless birds
& Analogy       watch: Building a family free for all humanity

  
Thursday
18 Sept. 		  Catch up    
   
Tuesday
23 Sept
  

First Midterm - Science, Origins & Evolution

 
     
Thursday
25 Sept.
tutorial (two parts!) 		  Bonds, water, and life
     
Tuesday
30 Sept.
tutorial		   Lipids & Membranes & Getting through membranes  
Introduction to the water lab | write-up template word | pdf		  
Thursday
2 Oct.
tutorial		  
Carriers, Pores   & Pumps  
 
 
 
Tuesday
7 Oct.
tutorial		  

A (very) little thermodynamic  and  Capturing energy  

  
Thursday
9 Oct.
tutorial		  

Storing energy & Eukaryotic Symbiosis

 
 
 
Tuesday
14 Oct. 		  Catch up - water lab due  
Thursday
16 Oct. 		 
Second Midterm - Water, Membranes & Energy
 
 
 
Tuesday
21 Oct.
tutorial		   Chemical Basis of Heredity  
watch John Maynard Smith video 2
Thursday
23 Oct.
tutorial		   Nucleic Acid Structure / (DNA replication is optional)
E. coli lab write-up template word | pdf  
   
Tuesday
28 Oct.
tutorial		  

Peptide Bonds & Polypeptide         
register and instal Fold-it

watch
fold-it
intro
Thursday
30 Oct.
tutorial		   Making Polypeptides  &
Assembling Proteins
 
Tuesday
4 Nov.
tutorial		   Regulating Protein Activities  
On Growth lab | write-up template word | pdf
Thursday
6 Nov.
tutorial		 Regulating Gene Expression 
who are
we?
   
Tuesday
11 Nov.
tutorial		   Networks, genes and genome duplication
animation
evolution & gene duplication
Thursday
13 Nov.
tutorial		   Mutation, Deletion, Duplication & Repair (remember to revise!!!)
write up template
   
Tuesday
18 Nov.
tutorial		  

Cell Growth & Division
Thursday
20 Nov.
tutorial		   Life Cycles & Sex  
   
 
–Thanksgiving break–
   
Tuesday
2 Dec.
  

Sex and stem cells 
cellular & molecular dynamics cell movie |  ATPase
Thursday
4 Dec.
tutorial		  

Differentiation   | FCQ day
cost & benefit
   

Tuesday
9 Dec.
tutorial

   Cellular communities - all labs due !
    on-line review session, sunday from 7 to 9PM AIM: mikeklymkowsky
http://connectnow.acrobat.com/GTPSTEM		  
Thursday
11 Dec.		  

review sessions with Max and Amara
  on-line review session, sunday from 6 to 8PM AIM: mikeklymkowsky
http://connectnow.acrobat.com/GTPSTEM
     
Mon
Dec 15
  
   
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The faster science and technology advance—the more important it is to teach and to learn the basics of math and science and the less important it is to teach and to learn the latest developments. - Harari’s Law of Science Education