Final Presentations
Homework
Outline: 15 points
Presentation: 120 points
(of the 695 total lab points)
Your homework is to chose** a topic and begin your research in preparation for your group presentation. The presentations will be given the last week of lab. Next week you will turn in an outline* of your presentation. You will receive a detailed explanation of what will be required in the presentations. As a group you should prepare to give a 20- 25 minute Power Point presentation with visual aids that addresses one of the following topics:
Option 1 - The Virus Wars: flue virus and difficulties of fighting it - mutations, vaccine production process (incl. difficulties and new technologies), interspecific jumping of the virus incl. avian bird flu
Option 2 - Genetically modified foods
Option 3 - Human genetic testing and prenatal screening; privacy issues with genetic predispositions to certain diseases
Option 4 - The value of biodiversity - why should we care if species go extinct?
Option 5 - Global climate change; effects on weather, biodiversity, human activity
Option 6 - Human evolution
Option 7 - Origin of life - big band or not?
Option 8 - Evolution in action: antibiotic resistance in bacteria and pesticide resistance in insects
Option 9 - Prions and prion-induced diseases: mad cow (BSE), scrapie, Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease and Kuru
Option 10 - Exobiology? astrobiology - the search for life in the Universe and how can we tell if something is alive?
Option 11 - The future of human reproduction - Human "Genome Project, cloning genetic modifications (for disease redetection & correction), ethical implications
Option 12 - Human population growth and Earth's limited resources - what are the problems and solutions?
Option 13 - Mass extinctions - why did the dinosaurs go extinct?
*One tip on earning presentation points: Make sure that the outline is detailed enough in order to enable me to provide your group with feedback before the presentation.
Note: Save your presentation on a jump drive. Additionally, save it at least one other different way (e.g. , floppy, on the Internet - e-mail or Tech storage, your own computer). You will need to have access to both storage media during that lab period.
Oral Report Evaluation Outline