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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Immune System via Zelda and FFXII (or XIII...I really don't know)
This is pretty much self-explanatory. And awesome.
As soon as I get some more time to poke around the Google results, I will post a few more...science-y ones. Till then, enjoy!
As soon as I get some more time to poke around the Google results, I will post a few more...science-y ones. Till then, enjoy!
Friday, December 3, 2010
Brain Myths and Other Stuff
Some quick Google searching turned up a bunch of sites with the title "Top X Brain Myths Debunked", with X being anywhere between 10 - 12. Here are links to a couple that were brought up in class.
New wrinkles as you learn something
You only use 10% of your brain
If there are more that we talked about in class that you remember, you can link to them in the comments, or if you can't find anything, let me know and I will look them up.
Here is a link to a game where you can replicate the studies done in split brain patients. Remember, these are patients whose corpus callosum, the thick band of nerves that connects the left and right hemispheres of the cerebrum, has been surgically split to treat epilepsy.
New wrinkles as you learn something
You only use 10% of your brain
If there are more that we talked about in class that you remember, you can link to them in the comments, or if you can't find anything, let me know and I will look them up.
Here is a link to a game where you can replicate the studies done in split brain patients. Remember, these are patients whose corpus callosum, the thick band of nerves that connects the left and right hemispheres of the cerebrum, has been surgically split to treat epilepsy.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
What do I need to know for the test?
Major topics to review (by chapter)
Chapter 11
Local regulation vs paracrine signaling vs hormones
Stages of cell communication
Types of cell surface receptors
Second messengers - what are they, why are they used, examples (Ca++, cAMP, IP3)
Chapter 39
Tropisms (phototropism, gravitropism, thigmotropism)
Early experiments on phototropism (Darwin2, Boysen-Jensen, Went
Ethylene = fruit ripening (thought I took this one off)
Short-day vs long-day plants
Red vs far-red light
Photoperiodism
Chapter 45
Hormones vs neurotransmitters vs local regulators
Hypothalamus relationship to ant. pituitary
Selectivity of responses to hormones
Insulin/glucagon system - know this in some detail
Chapter 11
Local regulation vs paracrine signaling vs hormones
Stages of cell communication
Types of cell surface receptors
Second messengers - what are they, why are they used, examples (Ca++, cAMP, IP3)
Chapter 39
Tropisms (phototropism, gravitropism, thigmotropism)
Early experiments on phototropism (Darwin2, Boysen-Jensen, Went
Ethylene = fruit ripening (thought I took this one off)
Short-day vs long-day plants
Red vs far-red light
Photoperiodism
Chapter 45
Hormones vs neurotransmitters vs local regulators
Hypothalamus relationship to ant. pituitary
Selectivity of responses to hormones
Insulin/glucagon system - know this in some detail
Thursday, November 11, 2010
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