Name _____________________
Pepsnik
Biology- Q4 Extra Credit- Lecture Options- 1% max extra credit- Due Friday, May 31, 2013
So you have a chance to see another website, you must complete the 17 minute TED lecture and answer
questions below. Then you may choose one of the following Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Holiday
Lectures: http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/lectures/index.html = 2011 Holiday Lectures- Bones, Stones and GenesOrigin of Modern Human or http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/stemcells/lectures.html = 2006 Potent Biology-Stem
Cells, Cloning and Regeneration. Write a one page summary about what you learned, connections to biology classhighlight/underline vocab, ideas, etc, and a question to ask the lecturer.
Svante Pääbo DNA clues to our inner Neanderthal Ted Global 2011
http://www.ted.com/talks/svante_paeaebo_dna_clues_to_our_inner_neanderthal.html
1. A genome is?
2. What happens when things are not perfect? (in our DNA)
3. How many differences between 2 humans? (average)
4. How many differences between humans and chimp?
5. Explain and label this chart
a. Use both DNA difference and time
6. How many human genomes in each person?
a. The number of genetic differences between 2 people are?
7. Compare genetic variation in Africa versus Out of Africa? What had happened?
8. Why are the genetic variants outside Africa more likely to be related?
9. Why are we “all Africans”? explain
a. Use the DNA data (185 African vs 184 Eurasians)-what is interesting about this data?
i. What is surprising about this data?
10. What can we learn from looking at Kidneys and Hearts? Why is this different than our immune system? Skin?
Hair color?
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