AP BIOLOGY
MAGAZINE ARTICLE & BOOK REPORT WRITE-UP GUIDELINES
The advances in all fields of science seem to come at an exponential rate. What we study today may
be modified or amended tomorrow. An educated person reads throughout an entire lifetime. Daily
life places so many demands on our time that sometimes only a requirement will force us to set aside
time for a pleasurable activity such as reading.
During this academic year, you will be required to do the following readings:
1. BOOK: One report due Jan 16. (See the following list.)
2. ARTICLES: Two major journal articles will be required each quarter. One article must be related
to a topic studied in class during that quarter. The other may be on any biological topic. Articles may
be no more than 12 months old. Articles are expected to be major ones, three or more pages in
length, from the master list in Biology Digest.
Alcohol and Health Research
Bio Science
Conservationist
FDA Consumer
JAMA
National Wildlife
Psychology Today
Science News
Sea Frontiers
Time
Audubon
Consumer Reports
Discover
International Wildlife
National Geographic
New Scientist
Science
Scientific American
Sierra
You must copy the articles and judiciously highlight the most important points. Please organize your
write-ups using the following sections. Number them accordingly.
1. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION - Author, Title, Publication Date, Article Number, etc.
2. INTRODUCTION - Define or describe the major terms in the title and tell basically why the
subject is important.
3. CONTENT - What was the article all about? Is the article mostly informative, or is the author
presenting his/her opinion on the subject? How do you know? What were the main concepts and
ideas that were discussed? What was the question the author was investigating? What methods did
he/she use? What evidence was uncovered to support a new idea? Were any old ideas overturned?
This part should make up the main body of your paper.
4. SUMMARY AND EVALUATION - Restate the main areas of importance in the article and
discuss the quality of it from your perspective as a student of biology. Did you find it interesting?
useful? readable? boring? Would you recommend it to the other members of the class? Please explain
the answers that you give to these questions. Do not leave out this important section.
5. COPY OF ARTICLE - When you turn in your write-up, please staple a copy of the article to
your paper.
Alternate Assignment:
ABSTRACTS: Biology Digest abstracts approximately 160 journals. Instead of one article each
quarter, you may submit 2 to 3 sentence summaries of five (5) abstracts.
When you write your abstract summary, please answer the following questions:
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Short summary of your completed work
What problem were they solving?
What was the procedure for solving?
What was the outcome?
Conclude their thoughts
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Example:
Biology Digest April 1996, Volume 13
"The Beleaguered Plover"
Defenders, March - April 1996
Piping Plovers are at risk because tourist season interferes with their nesting time. There are
inadequate nesting sites available, and they are rapidly becoming an endangered species. The
protection of their habitat along the rocky East coast is controversial because it is only needed
seasonally and interferes with tourist use at other times
AP Biology Book List
Below you will find a list of books you can read for your book report semester project. It is by no
means comprehensive. I continually review and add books to this list yearly. If you have a
suggestion or have a book you would like to read, please bring it to my attention.
Molecules and Cells | Genetics and Evolution | Organisms and Populations | Miscellaneous
Science Books
I. Molecules and Cells
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Angier, Natalie. (1999). Natural obsessions.
Bass, Thomas. (1994). Reinventing the future.
Cairns, John. (1978). Cancer: science and society.
Crick, Francis. (1982). Life itself.
Cytowic, Richard. (2003). The Man who tasted shapes.
Davis, Joel. (1990). Mapping the code.
Djerassi, Carl. (1993). The Pill, pygmy chimps, and degas’ horse.
Ewald, Paul. (1996). Evolution of infectious disease.
Fox, Ronald. (1988). Energy and the evolution of life.
Gallo, Robert. (1993). Virus hunting.
Garrett, Laurie. (1995). The Coming plague: newly emerging diseases in a world out
of balance.
Goldberg, Jeff. (1989). Anatomy of a scientific discovery.
Goodfield, June. (1991). An Imagined world.
Karlen, Arno. (1995). Man and microbes.
Lappé, Marc. (1994). Evolutionary medicine.
Lappé, Marc. (1995). When Antibiotics fail.
Margulis, Lynn. (1981). Symbiosis in cell evolution.
McNeill, William Hardy. (1976). Plagues and peoples.
Mnookin, Seth. (2011). The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
Morowitz, Harold. (1992). Beginnings of cellular life.
Mukherjee, Siddhartha. (2010). The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Neel, James. (1994). Physician to the gene pool.
Nussbaum, Bruce. (1991). Good intentions.
Plotkin, Mark. (2001). Tales of a shaman.
Poinar, George. (1992). Life in amber.
Root-Bernstein, Robert. (1993). Rethinking aids.
Rosenberg, Steven, & Barry, John. (1993). Transformed cell.
Sacks, Oliver. (1995). An Anthropologist on mars: seven paradoxical tales.
Skloot, Rebecca (2011). The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Snyder, Solomon. (1989). Brainstorming.
Thompson, Larry. (1994). Correcting the code: inventing the genetic cure for the
human body.
Weissmann, Gerald. (1987). They all Laughed at christopher columbus: tales of
medicine and the art of discovery.
Wingerson, Lois. (1991). Mapping our genes.
II. Genetics and Evolution
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Anfinsen , Christian B. (1959). The Molecular basis of evolution.
Asimov, Isaac. (1961). The Wellsprings of life.
Carroll, Sean. (2006). Endless forms most beautiful.
Carroll, Sean. (2007). The Making of the fittest.
Carroll, Sean. (2008). Into the Jungle.
Carroll, Sean. (2009). Remarkable creatures.
Cooper, Geoffrey. (1995). Oncogenes.
Cronin, Helena. (1993). The Ant and the peacock.
Darwin, Charles. (1839). The Voyage of the beagle.*
Darwin, Charles. (1859). The Origin of species.*
Darwin, Charles. (1871). The Descent of man.*
Darwin, Charles. (1872). The Expression of the emotions in man and animals.*
Darwin, Charles. (1887). The Autobiography of charles darwin.*
Dawkins, Richard (1976). The Selfish Gene.
Dawkins, Richard (1986). The Blind Watchmaker.
Dawkins, Richard. (2009). The Greatest show on earth.
Edey, Maitland, & Johanson, Donald. (1990). Blueprints.
Eiseley, Loren. (1958). Darwin's century: evolution and the men who discovered it.
Eldredge, Niles. (1994). The Miner’s canary.
Fairbanks, Daniel. (2007). Relics of eden.
Fox, Michael W. (1992). Superpigs and wondercorn: the brave new world of
biotechnology and where it all may lead.
Gould, Stephen (1977). Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History.
Gould, Stephen (1977). Ontongeny and Phylogeny.
Gould, Stephen (1980). The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History.
Gould, Stephen (1983). Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes.
Gould, Stephen (1985). The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History.
Gould, Stephen (1987). Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle.
Gould, Stephen (1989). Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History.
Gould, Stephen (1996) Full House.
Hubbard, Ruth, & Wald, Elijah. (1999). Exploding the gene myth.
Johanson, Donald, & Edey, Maitland. (1982). Lucy: the beginnings of humankind.
Judson, Horace. (1979). The Eighth day of creation.
Keller, Evelyn (1983). A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara
McClintock.
Kevles, Daniel. (1985). In the name of eugenics.
Leakey, Richard. (1996). The Origin of humankind.
McCarty, Maclyn. (1986). The Transforming principle.
Margulis, Lynn. (1999). Symbiotic planet.
Margulis, Lynn and Dorion Sagan (1986). Origins of Sex: Three Billion Years of
Genetic Recombination.
Margulis, Lynn and Dorion Sagan (1991). Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of
Evolution from our Microbial Ancestors.
Mayr, Ernst (1963). Populations, species, and evolution: an abridgment of animal
species and evolution.
Mayr, Ernst (1982). The Growth of biological thought: diversity, evolution, and
inheritance.
Mayr, Ernst (1988). Towards a new philosophy of biology.
Mayr, Ernst (1991). One long argument: charles darwin and the genesis of modern
evolutionary thought.
Mayr, Ernst. (2002). What evolution is.
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Morowitz, Harold. (1991). Mayonnaise and the origin of life.
Nelkin, Dorothy, & Lindee, M. (1996). The DNA mystique.
Pollen, Daniel. (1993). Hannah's heirs: the quest for the genetic origins of alzheimer's
disease.
Portugal, Franklin, & Cohen, Jack. (1980). A Century of DNA.
Quammen, David. (1997). The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of
Extinction
Ridley, Matt. (1993). The Red queen.
Sayre, Anne. (2000). Rosalind franklin and DNA.
Shubin, Neil. (2009). Your inner fish.
Stone, Irving. (1980). The Origin: a biographical novel of charles darwin.
Sylvester, Edward, & Klotz, Lynn. (1987). The Gene age.
Thornton, Ian W.B. (1971). Darwin's islands: a natural history of the galapagos.
Venter, J. (2007). A Life decoded.
Ward, Peter D. (2004). Gorgon.
Watson, James. (1968). The Double helix.
Wills, Christopher. (1991). The Wisdom of the genes: new pathways in evolution.
Wilson, David Sloan. (2007). Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can
Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
III. Organisms and Populations
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Ackerman, Diane. (1990). A Natural history of the senses.
Attenborough, David. (1979). Life on earth.
Attenborough, David. (1986). The Living planet.
Bakker, Elna. (1984). An Island called california.
Bekoff, Marc, & Goodall, Jane. (2008). The Emotional lives of animals.
Bernhardt, Peter. (1993). Natural affairs.
Bonner, John T. (1980). The Evolution of culture in animals.
Carson, Rachel. (1962). Silent spring.
Collard, Sneed. (1996). Alien invaders.
Corwin, Jeff. (2009). 100 Heartbeats: A Raceto Save the Earths' Most Endangered
Species
Corner, Edred. (2002). The Life of plants.
Desowitz, Robert. (1988). Thorn in the starfish.
Diamond, Jared. (2005). The Third chimpanzee.
Diamond, Jared. (2005). Collapse.
Diamond, Marian. (1988). Enriching heredity.
Edwards, Robert, & Steptoe, Patrick. (1980). A Matter of life, the story of a medical
breakthrough.
Egan, Timothy. (2009). The Big burn.
Fossey, Dian. (1983). Gorillas in the mist.
Galdikas, Biruté. (1992). Reflections of eden.
Goodall, Jane. (1971). In the shadow of man.
Goodall, Jane. (1990). Through a Window.
Goodall, Jane. (1996). My Life with the chimpanzees.
Goodall, Jane. (2009). Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species
Are Being Rescued from the Brink
Gould, Stephen (1993). The Mismeasure of Man.
Hölldobler, Bert, & Wilson, Edward. (2009). The Superorganism.
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Jones, James. (1993). Bad blood.
Lorenz, Konrad. (1952). King solomon's ring.
McCarthy, Dennis. (2009). Here be Dragons.
Miller, Jonathan. (1978). The Body in question.
Montgomery, Sy. (1991). Walking with the great apes.
Morris, Desmond. (1967). The Naked ape.
Moss, Cynthia. (2000). Elephant memories.
Moyers, Bill. (1992). Healing and the mind.
Muir, John. (2008). My First summer in sierra.
Muir, John, & Hoagland, Edward. (2008). The Mountains of california.
Patterson, Francine, & Linden, Eugene. (1981). The Education of koko.
Restak, Richard. (1984). The Brain.
Restak, Richard. (1995). Receptors.
Sagan, Carl. (1977). Dragons of eden.
Sapolsky, Robert. (2004). Why Zebras don't get ulcers.
Steinbeck, John. (1951). Log from the sea of cortez.
Wilson, Edward O. (1970). The Insect societies.
Wilson, Edward O. (1986). Biophilia.
Wilson, Edward O. (1992). The Diversity of life.
Wilson, Edward O. (1994). Naturalist.
Wilson, Edward O. (2003). The Future of life.
Wilson, Edward O. (2007). The Creation.
IV. Miscellaneous Science Books
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Asimov, Isaac. (1963). A Short history of biology.
Roach, Mary. (2010). Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Sagan, Carl. (1996). The Demon-haunted world.
Sagan, Carl. (1997). Contact.
Name____________________Per_____
Answer the following questions from your scientific article
1. Bibliography of the article
2. Short summary the completed work
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What problem were they solving?
4. What is mycorrhizae?
5. What is the relationship of mycorrhizae to plants?
6. How can this article be useful to our OEEC studies?