April Blog - AP Biology

Our April blog is an open forum, to participate please make a post on something you would like to share with the group about something regarding biology.  Please make sure you go back and read the other students contributions.

March 2015 - AP Biology

This month we are going to blog about "-ology". The life sciences have a host of sub areas of study that you may or may not have heard of before.  For this month's blog I would like to find and share an "-ology" that you might be interested in or one in which you don't know anything about.  Please post the name of the area of study and then give a brief overview of what it is and the jobs that are associated with this field.  (Let's try not to have any repeats!)  I will start us off:


Mycology is the study of fungi, its taxonomy, genetics and chemical properties.  Experts in this field work in the medical, and food industries.   When I was an undergraduate student at Iowa State University, two of my favorite professors (Dr. George Knaphus and Dr. Louise Tiffany) were world renown mycologists and very good people. 

February 2015 - AP Biology

OK we have made it through midterm exams and our second blizzard in a week, so we can now get back the business of studying biology! 


Below please find a link to an article about "Three Parent Babies".  Please read the article and watch the embedded videos and then post what you think about the procedure or comment on one of your peers posts.








http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11386151/Three-parent-babies-the-arguments-for-and-against.html