Saturday, November 29, 2008

Assignments for Week Twelve - Cell Biology

Blog assignments for this week:

  • Describe connections you are making between cell biology and your TCM studies
  • Check out the link on How Cells Divide: Mitosis vs. Meiosis below, and post your impressions.
  • Check out the other links on cell biology below
  • Post a comment to one of your classmates' blogs

Check out the following links:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/baby/divide.html
How Cells Divide: Mitosis vs. Meiosis
By Rick Groleau

http://wine1.sb.fsu.edu/krebs/krebs.htm
The Citric Acid (Krebs, TCA) Cycle

http://www.johnkyrk.com/krebs.html
A cool animation site

http://mrskingsbioweb.com/cell.html
Cells

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiosis
Meiosis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitosis
Mitosis

Friday, November 28, 2008

Chemistry Final Paper - due December 11th


By special request, here is the information for your Final Paper in Chemistry:

  1. Choose a subject covered in the AIMC Chemistry Curriculum
  2. Your paper will be an analysis of how your chosen subject connects with your Oriental Medicine studies here at AIMC.
  3. Guidelines: 500 – 1000 words
  4. Optional - feel free to include a Concept Map!
If this is your first trimester and you're not yet taking Oriental Medicine classes, then your paper should be an analysis of how your chosen subject connects with your reasons for studying Oriental Medicine.

Your paper is due on December 11th, our last class, although you're welcome to submit your paper earlier if you wish.

Friday, November 14, 2008

Assignments for Week Eleven - Living Diversity

Blog assignments for this week:

  • Examine your own immediate environment for diversity of species and post your findings.
  • Check out the various links on cells below, and post your impressions.
  • Take a look at Spike’s Gallery
  • Post a comment to a classmate’s blog

Check out the following links:

http://microscopy.fsu.edu/cells/index.html
Introduction to Cell and Virus Structure

http://microscopy.fsu.edu/cells/animalcell.html
Animal Cell Structure

http://microscopy.fsu.edu/cells/bacteriacell.html
Bacteria Cell Structure

http://microscopy.fsu.edu/cells/plantcell.html
Plant Cell Structure

http://microscopy.fsu.edu/cells/virus.html
Virus Structure

http://www.ibiblio.org/virtualcell/tour/cell/cell.htm
The Virtual Cell – Cell Biology


And from the class notes, the link to Spike's Gallery - A Selection of Aquatic Life.
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmay05/swgallery1.