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To encourage you to make the connection between textbook biology and biology that appears in daily newspapers and weekly periodicals, you will write a short paper that will help you recognize how science and technology influence and contribute to modern culture. Begin by clicking the Biology in the News link above, then select the Evaluation Criteria file to view the instructions for this assignment.

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10:13 s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com c Name Biology 1409 Special Event: Microbe Hunters Directions: 1. You may want to print the following questions before you begin the video. You will find that they are in sequence with the lecture. 2. Copy and paste the following into your address area of the internet: http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/microbe-hunters- tracking-infectious-agents 3. There are a couple of display options, scroll down the page until you see: Lecture One-Microbe Hunters: Tracking Infectious Agents 4. Select your computer connection speed. Either 56 K moden or Cable/DSL/ TI from the Lecture One 5. The lecture should immediately load and begin. Assignment: 1. Name the person giving the lecture. 2. What diseases has he investigated? 3. What causes the Bubonic Plague? 4. What did scientists believe about infectious diseases in the 1960's? 5. Where did you see art incorporated into the idea of infectious diseases? 6. Do viruses fit our criteria for life? Explain. 7. How did the lecturer illustrate the relative sizes of viruses and other organisms? 8. Describe the mechanism by which viruses enter cells. 9. Describe the process that viruses use to make new viruses. 10. What is an epidemiologist? < m Special Event: Microbe Hunters Attached Files: BIOL 1409 Special Event Grading Rubric.docx (12.743 KB) Biology1409-Special_Event Microbe Hunters (31.5 KB) Please click on the Special Event: Microbe Hunters link above, then select the attached file to watch a one hour video from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Holiday Lecture Series entitled Microbe Hunters. You may start and stop the video as you answer the questions found in the file. Please save the Word document once you have completed all questions, attach, and submit. There are 20 questions worth one point each, so the assignment is worth 20 points total. 10:13 s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com 5. Where did you see art incorporated into the idea of infectious diseases? 6. Do viruses fit our criteria for life? Explain. 7. How did the lecturer illustrate the relative sizes of viruses and other organisms? 8. Describe the mechanism by which viruses enter cells. 9. Describe the process that viruses use to make new viruses. 10. What is an epidemiologist? 11. How do epidemiologists decide if the illness is an epidemic? 12. What are some traditional methods of finding the pathogen that cause a disease? 13. Lab scientists take charge when it is determined there is an epidemic. What new ways of searching for microorganisms are being used? 14. What is the #1 tumor of AIDS patients? 15. Name and describe two life styles of the Herpes virus. 16. List Koch's postulates. 17. Can Koch's postulates be used for all pathogens? 18. What is the advantage of latency for a virus? 19. Explain why some patients are resistant to HIV. 20. What is the interaction between viral DNA and human DNA? 10:15 dcccd.blackboard.com C My DCCCD Courses Community d Siz iz 2019SU-BIOL-1409-7542... Unit 4;10,Db4Bi... > Lecture: Urogen... > Biology in the News Biology in the News Assignment Attached Files: BITN Assignment (65.5 KB) To encourage you to make the connection between textbook biology and biology that appears in daily newspapers and weekly periodicals, you will write a short paper that will help you recognize how science and technology influence and contribute to modern culture. Begin by clicking the Biology in the News link above, then select the Evaluation Criteria file to view the instructions for this assignment. This is where you will attach your completed paper in the form of a Word document, which is worth 20 points. Late work will count half credit. Before beginning your paper, please also view the checklist, rubric, and examples that are provided. Biology in the News Checklist Attached Files: BITN Checklist (21.442 KB) m 10:14 s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com c Special Event Rubric This assignment consists of 20 questions. Each question is worth 1 point for a total of 20 points in the assignment. Each question will be evaluated with the levels of achievement listed below. The range of points available for each question is 0-1 pt. Novice Competent Answer is incorrect. Answer is partially inaccurate or incomplete. Proficient Answer sufficiently addresses the question. Category Answer content for each individual question will be evaluated with the following levels of achievement. Total Points Possible 0 0.5 1 < m
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Assignment Questions
1. Name the person giving the lecture.
The person is Dr. Donald Ganem, MD from the Department of the University of California
2. What disease has he investigated?
Dr. Donald Ganem has investigated Hepatitis, HIV and among other diseases
3. What type of organism caused Bubonic Plague?
Bubonic Plague is a bacterial infection that is carried by rats and transmitted to human
beings by the bite of infected fleas.
4. What did scientists believe about infectious diseases in the 1960s?
In the 1960s many scientists believed that the vaccine development and antibiotics
advancement in public health and sanitation that resulted in enormous triumphs over several
infectious illnesses, which inspired self-confidence, was misplaced.
5. Where did you see art incorporated into the idea of infectious diseases?
On the “Sunday Times Magazine” whereby Photographer named Joel Peter Witkin
posted a picture juxtaposing the bones of a 14th-century plague victim with the body of a
young man at the risk of HIV. By presenting this image, Dr. Donald Ganem wants to show
that the idea of infectious diseases is a subject alive in the popular imagination, not just
among scientists.

6. Do viruses fit our criteria for life? Explain
NO. This is because viruses lack the ability to grow and develop or for self-reproduction a
host cell. For purposes of self-reproduction, they have to live inside a host cell for ribosome,
enzymes, and protein synthesis.
7. How did the lecturer illustrate the relative sizes of viruses and other organisms?
The lecturer described bacterium as the size of a football. On the other hand, he
compared the size of a l...


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