SyMBiosis
Whiteboard topics: Number in parentheses refers to the associated worksheet with full description
How do plants know up from down? (48)
Fluid flow in blood vessels (changes in velocity due to vessel or when doing activity (arteriols) (09)(49)
Jumping animals and energy/kinematics (50)
Force to stretch out DNA (Topics) (51)
Movement of 4-legged animals-gait, balance, stresses (31)
Fluid flow in trees (how does the sap get sucked- surface tension) (47)
Force and torque in the body (levers) (24)
Creation of anaerobic sites in soil and lake sediments (diffusion, gas solubility) (45)
Flight of insects and hummingbird (37)
Physics of color vision and light absorption in leaves/accessory pigments (Fall color) (30,32)
Spatial localization through hearing (33)
Radionucleids in medicine (Drug decay in blood) (34)
Biologist's instruments- centrifuge, x-ray crystallography, capillary electrophoresis (35)
Axon circuit and signal relay/amplification (36) (10)
Cell tumbling/rolling and adhesion in blood vessels- cancer metastasis (41)
Larynx length and frequency of sound produced in frogs: ex. Coqui frogs (only live in Puerto Rico) (07)
How small propagules got from one place to another e.g. fungus spores and pollen (38)
Molecular transisters = ion channels (1)
¥ Inspiration trough sub-pressure in thoracic cavity (compared to thoracic cavity
Molecular motors: bacterial flagella, ATP synthase, myosin, kinesin, dynein (2)
Cell division as ACT of increasing area/volume (17?)
Heart depolarization vector (18)
Bernoulli and growth of aneurisms (16)
Quantum Mechanics and Life (!) Schroedinger's book (28)
Calculation of electrostatic potential on protein surfaces (52)
¥ Static equilibrium of joints/muscles
Magnetic resonance imaging (induction, torques on spins, spatial encoding of information (44)
Movement of proteins in (gels) electric fields (scaling, electricity, terminal velocity (43)
Magnetotactic bacteria: they align themselves in magnetic fields based on small magnetic particles
(Magnetism, entropy) (42)
Radiation dose examples: medical diagnostics, cancer therapy (11)
Radiation levels emitted by the Chernobyl nuclear accident (11?)
Bat echolocation (29)
Thermal, heat loss: size limit to warm-blooded animals, effect of outside temperature (23) (03)
Food web and energy (05, 12)
Feedback and global temperature (4)
Light (sound) as a source of information (insects detect polarization of light (22)
Optics: diffraction imposes limit on compound eye size, structure (20)
Mechanics: Galileo noted that all animals jump as high as any other (flea, horse) (27)
Use of polarized light to infer structure of vegetation (25)
Nature's fiber optics (light guides in a leaf (40)
¥ Radiation balance applied to atmospheric climate change- impacts speciesÕ migration and extinction
Geometrical optics-near-sighted and farsighted vision (08)
Species in other environments: (sight of fishes in water) (08)
Have students develop their own ideas that engage them (19)
Energy transduction; equivalence of chemical, osmotic, electrical potentials (05) (12) (13)
Seed dispersal (rates, distance, time to reach a given place) as a function of size and forces (06)
Effect of gravitational force on evolution of form (14) (24)
Special properties of water that affect biological systems (15)(39)
Effect of specific density upon water-dwelling animals (fish bladder, sperm whale head ) (21)(26)
(Note that ¥ marks ones that I didn't match with a worksheet)