Teaching Biodiversity
Using Scientific Literature

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Teaching Biodiversity

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Scientific Issues Addressed in Plague of Frogs

  • Adaptation 199
  • Agriculture
  • Anatomy & Physiology
  • Biochemistry
  • Biodiversity
  • Bioethics
  • Chemistry
  • Competition (for resources)
  • Developmental Biology
  • Ecology
  • Ecosystems
  • Epidemiology
  • Evolution
  • Food Webs
  • Forensics
  • Genetic Engineering
  • Genetic Variablity       191
  • Greenhouse Effect
  • Habitat Destruction
  • Health (public health)
  • History (natural) (Thalidomide babies, DDT)
  • Immunology?
  • Methodologies (scientific)
  • Medicine
  • Metamorphosis  193, 199
  • Microbiology
  • Molecular biology
  • Mutations/malformations
  • Natural selection   190
  • Nomenclature
  • Parasitology   186
  • Pathology
  • PCR
  • Phenotype  191
    Politics (legislation, finance, PR, media) 193
  • Pollution
  • Populations 190
  • Predation (predator/prey relationships) 186-189
  • Reproduction 199
  • Research Techniques
  • Scientific Method (Case Study)
  • Sentinel Species
  • Symbiosis
  • Technology (electrophoresis, etc.0
  • Terminology (vocabulary, nomenclature)
  • Transformation
  • Water sheds
  • X-Ray techniques
  • Zoology