Coral reefs are one of nature's most spectacular examples of biodiversity, largely due to the symbiotic relationship between algae and colonial polyps, the organisms that secrete the calcium carbonate shell that make up the coral reef.
The goal of this Education Transfer Plan (ETP) is to engage students in understanding that the growth and development of organisms are not always visible to the human eye. To explore this process, students will use time-lapse photography to investigate an organism in the natural environment.
This lesson uses a historical context to provide a foundational, scientific basis of Earth’s history for high school students. Students will conduct individual internet research to learn when and under what circumstances events in Earth’s history took place.
This Education Transfer Plan (ETP) will introduce biology students to evolution’s ability to create rich and complex structural and behavioral characteristics among a variety of species and how these special features of the natural world are inspiring engineers to design new materials and process
Immunofluorescence utilizes the specificity of antibodies attached to fluorescent dyes to visualize parts of a cell. Immunofluorescence can be used to determine specific protein localization and abundance of various expressed genes in breast cancer cells.
Biomimicry is innovation designed by nature. It is a fast growing field that allows engineers, architects, pharmacists, biotechnologists, transportation planners, telecommunication experts, etc., to look into the biological world for solutions to common design problems.
The Organismal Biology course for biology majors at SJCC is a survey of different types of organisms, including microbes, plants, and animals.
This lab is an introduction to simple animals such as sponges, corals, and sea anemones. Live sea anemone samples will be available, and students will feed them to observe their movement and behavior. Defensive behaviors such as firing of nematocysts will also be directly observed.
The Bent Lab in Stanford’s Chemical Engineering Department focuses on studying the selective deposition of thin films in atomic layer deposition (ALD). These films are important for diffusion barriers, in integrated circuits. ALD is a subclass of chemical vapour deposition.