Goals:
    •Expose the student to a range of biological materials on the internet by conducting a series of searches to find specific information.
 

LET THE SEARCH BEGIN!

1. Open the  Fetal Tissue Transplantation site and answer question number 4 under the student pretest using information from the site.
 

2. Open the  Invisible Enemies site and locate a scanning electron micrograph of a deer tick. What allows the deer tick to stay attached to its host?
 

3.  Dustmite 's and  Myocytes move to the beat. At  the Cells Alive site, find out how long human neutrophils move to the beat before they commit suicide.
 

4.  Use the geneletter site to discover the requirements for obtaining a patent for a segment of 'your'DNA. How many such patents have already been granted, and how many applications are pending?
 

5.  Perform a generic search for the topic - GeneCards - and then determine how many diseases can be found on the Y-chromosome?  On the X-chromosome?
 

6.  Proceed to the  MIT Hypertext Biology Book and search for information on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR).  What is the major advantage of using the PCR reaction?