Addresses course outcomes 1-Four:
- acknowledge and clarify how the scientific methodology is used to unravel issues
- make observations and discriminate between scientific and pseudoscientific explanations
- weigh proof and make selections primarily based on strengths and limitations of scientific information and the scientific methodology
- use information of organic rules, the scientific methodology, and acceptable applied sciences to ask related questions, develop hypotheses, design and conduct experiments, interpret outcomes, and draw conclusions
Decide 1 of the Four
a) Stem cells. Your pal has suffered a spinal twine harm after a foul automobile accident. The medical staff has determined that he’s a great candidate for a medical trial utilizing stem cell remedy. Your pal has not had a biology course since highschool, so that you resolve to put in writing him a letter sharing your information of stem cells. Embrace in your letter an outline of the biology of stem cells and how these cells are distinctive from different cells. Distinction the several types of stem cells, together with execs and cons for every sort. Clarify how stems cells can be utilized to deal with illnesses and harm, with particular give attention to spinal twine accidents. Embrace info from at the very least one analysis research or medical trial. Conclude with your individual opinion.
b) Genetically modified organisms (GMOs). A pal tells you that she avoids meals containing GMOs as a result of they’re unhealthy. You resolve to make use of the information gained out of your biology class and some extra analysis to type your individual opinion on GMOs. Reply the following questions backed up by dependable info sources. What’s the objective of genetically engineering of crop crops? Embrace at the very least two particular examples of generally grown GMO crops. How are GMOs created? Use the supplied course supplies and make a connection to the central dogma of molecular biology in your clarification. Which meals in your grocery store include GMOs? Are meals that include GMOs secure for human consumption? What varieties of laws exist for these meals? Clearly clarify your reasoning for every reply in your paper and conclude whether or not or not you agree together with your pal.
c) Clustered Recurrently Interspaced Brief Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) has been the most up-to-date breakthrough discovery in bioengineering that permits scientists to edit DNA. As a result of you’ve gotten studied biology in this course, you’ve gotten volunteered at your niece’s Center College Science Membership to watch a scholar debate about CRISPR. The scholars can be watching the following video earlier than the dialogue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=252&v=2pp17E4E-O8 and it is advisable to be ready in case there are any questions. Please analysis and write a solution to every of the following questions: What’s “CRISPR”? What position does Cas9 play in the CRISPR course of? How does the CRISPR-Cas9 system snip and exchange any DNA sequence? What are the potential advantages and drawbacks of gene enhancing? Embrace particular examples. Do you consider that the inherent dangers of modifying animal DNA is price the rewards? Clarify. Do you consider that it’s moral to genetically engineer people and/or animals? Clarify.
d) Vaccines. Your pal is frightened about the many vaccines that his new child son is scheduled to obtain and asks you for recommendation since you’re taking a biology course. Begin with an evidence of how vaccines work. Briefly distinction the conventional strategies used to create vaccines with extra not too long ago used biotechnology strategies. Then record a few of the illnesses that infants and youngsters in the US are routinely vaccinated towards. How has vaccinations impacted the frequency of those illnesses over the previous 100 years? Why are some individuals frightened about giving their youngsters vaccines? Is there scientific proof to help these considerations? Conclude with recommendation to your pal in regard to getting the really useful vaccines primarily based on what you realized from dependable info sources.
e) Fracking (hydraulic fracturing) and tar sands (oil sands). With society’s dependence on nonrenewable fossil fuels, the oil & gasoline trade is popping to hydraulic fracturing and tar (oil) sands to extract pure gasoline and oil. A pal asks you “What’s all this controversy in the information about fracking and tar sands?” Briefly clarify to your pal how hydraulic fracturing and tar (oil) sands are used to acquire these fossil fuels. Then, in extra element, describe the environmental issues that will outcome from these processes and why they’re controversial. Points that must be addressed includes water, air and soil air pollution with particular give attention to international local weather change, results on human well being, and results on different species and pure ecosystems. Lastly, give your opinions on attainable options to those environmental issues, together with your reasoning backed by info from dependable info sources.
.doc fileATTACHMENTS
rubric.png
