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(If you have a book that you think may be pertinent to what we are studying, and
it is not on the list-see me)
1. The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett
2. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
3. Guns, Germs, and Steel (The Fates of Human Socities) by Jared
Diamond
4. Lucy's Child: The discovery of a human ancestor by Donald
Johanson & James
Shreeve.
5.Books by Loren Eiseley
The Immense Journey
The Unexpected Universe
Darwin's Century
6. Books by Robin Cook
Vector
Chromosome 6
Any of his other medical themes-see me first
7. Microbes, Bugs and Wonder Drugs by (ran Balkwill
8. Books by Steven J. Gould
Hen's Teeth and Horses Toes
Full House: The spread of excellence from
Plato to Darwin.
9. Skeptics and True Believers (The exhilarating Connection Between
Science and
Religion) by Chet Raymo:
10.Books by Richard Dawkins
River Out of Eden
The Blind Watchmaker
Climbing Mount Improbable
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion,
and the Appetite for Wonder
11. Mirage of Health-Utopias, Progress, and Biological Changes. By
René Dubos
12. The Uses of Life-A History of Biotechnology by Robert Bud
13. Books by Fran Balkwill
Amazing Schemes within Your Genes
Cells are Us
Cell Wars
DNA is Here to Stay
14. The Hot Zone By Richard Preston
15. Typhoid Mary. Captive to the Public's Health by J. Waltzer
16. Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC. By J. B. McCormick and S. Fisher-Hoch
17. Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. By Carl Sagan
18. A Dancing Matrix-Voyages Along the Viral Frontier written by Robin
Marantz
Henig
19. Microorganisms From Smallpox to Lyme Disease written by Thomas
D. Brock
20. The Cobra Event by Richard Preston
21. At War Within: The Double-Edged Sword of Immunity by W.R. Clark
22. Books by Rodney Barker
And the Waters Turn to Blood: The Ultimate
Biological Threat
Pfiesteria piscicida, the "cell from
hell"
23. Deadly Feast by Richard Rhodes
24. Spoiled : The Dangerous Truth About a Food Chain Gone Haywire by
Nicols
Fox
25. My Family and Other Animals and Birds & Beasts and Relatives
by Gerald
Durrell
26. Rats, Lice and History by Hans Zinsser
27. Bring out Your Dead by J.H. Powell
28. The Lives of a Cell; Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis
Thomas
29. The Diversity of Life by E. O. Wilson
GENETIC DISEASE PAPER
Every year we find more links between genetics and human diseases. The
Human Genome Project is mapping the nucleotide sequences of each of
the human chromosomes. Two thirds of all the DNA has been sequenced
and all of one chromosome (#22) Examine the Human Genome Map (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genemap98/)
and find an identified (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/disease/)
inherited disease (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genemap98/page.cgi?F=Applications.html)that
interests you (it can be a disease that someone you know has. Write a two
page report (double space, 12pt) on what is known about this disease and
if has affected you or some one you know. The paper should give the name
of the disease & a short description of symptoms. Using the NCBI site
locate the chromosome or chromosomes the disease is linked to. If known,
note the type of inheritance involved. Follow the link to Medline, or use
another internet source to find a current journal article on the disease
(you may use more than one article if you wish, but only one is required).
You are looking for a scientific journal not something from the popular
press. You will find the most recent articles are listed first. The rest
of the paper should be a summary of the article you have chosen. Attach
a copy of the article to your paper.
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