Honors Scientific Inquiry - Public  

The ninth quiz will be on Thursday, April 8.  It will cover what we've done in class over the past week, and the following readings:

Week 9
A New Kind of Ancestor: Ardipithecus Unveiled  

On the Origin of Flowering Plants

The Importance of Being Eaten

For each week of the course, there are readings on which you will be quizzed.  The quizzes, which also cover the class material for the week, are scheduled for Thursdays and require short answers. All the readings are available on the Web.  Do NOT wait until the night before the quiz to try to access the reading; give yourself some time in case the system isn’t working well.  You are expected to read the reading carefully and to mark three ideas that you think are most significant.  It’s suggested that you have read the reading once for the class before the quiz day so if you have any questions about the reading you can get them clarified.

Week 1
Life-Giving, Forever Young: In Praise of Plants

Why Can't We Discuss Intelligent Design?

Science, Evolution, and Creationism

Week 2
Go to the History of Evolutionary Thought website and print out this page as a reference.  Then click on the area below 1800, and then click on each of the six boxes on this page--starting at the bottom and working your way up.

Week 3
Darwin's Enduring Legacy

Why Darwin?

Week 4
Go to the Biofundamentals website, then click at the left on "Evolution's Logic, "Speciation and Extinction," and "Adaptation and Selection."  Read these sections.

Week 5
Extravagant Results of Nature's Arms Race

On the Origin of Sexual Reproduction

Go to the website on Biofundamentals, then click at the left on “Chemical Basis of Heredity”—read this section.

Week 6
Go to the website on Biofundamentals, then click at the left on “Nucleic Acid Structure,” “Polypeptide Bonds, Polypeptides and Proteins,” and “Making Polypeptides”—read these sections.

Genes Offer New Clues in Old Debate on Species' Origins 

Week 7
On the Origin of Life on Earth

On the Origin of Eukaryotes

When Evolution Creates the Same Design Again and Again

Week 8
From a Few Genes, Life's Myriad Shapes

Cambrian Explosion

Reviving the Lost Art of Naming the World

Week 9
A New Kind of Ancestor: Ardipithecus Unveiled

On the Origin of Flowering Plants

The Importance of Being Eaten

Week 10
The Sixth Extinction?

Global Darwin: Contempt for Competition 

Week 11
What to Let Go

Biodiversity's Bright Spot

Putting a Price on Nature 

Week 12
Why Intelligent Design Isn't

On the Origin of Religion

For each week of the course, there is a reading on which you will be quizzed.  The quizzes are usually scheduled for Thursday and require short answers.

All the readings are available on the Web.