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Volume 48, Issue 1

January 1986

ISSN 0002-7685

EISSN 1938-4211

In this Issue

Editorial
Letter to the Editor
How-To-Do-It
Computer Center
Projector Center
Biology Today
Book Reviews
AV Reviews

Front Matter

Pill Bug Biology: A Spider's Spinach, but a Biologist's Delight

Gary Raham

A Frog Model of Geographic Speciation

Alan R. P. Journet

"Monocystis": Earthworm Parasite

Philip Sheridan

Hypothesis Formation and Testing for Beginning Biology Students: A Series of Experiments

James N. Thompson,, Jr., Jenna J. Hellack

The School Surroundings: A Useful Tool in Education

Alton Biggs, Patrick Tap

Attracting and Retaining Qualified High School Science Teachers: Views from Those on the Firing Line

Jon R. Hendrix, Thomas R. Mertens

Understandings and Misunderstandings of Biology Concepts

Edmund Marek

Etymology in the Biology Classroom

Daryl G. Miller

1985 Report of the President

Thomas R. Mertens

Research Reviews

Jim Stewart

Editorial

Lotteries and Biology Teaching

Dan Wivagg

Letter to the Editor

More Thoughts on Stream Water Quality

Benjamin F. Poscover

How-To-Do-It

Using the Text Processor to Teach DNA Structure

Patrick Ryan

Computer Center

Educational Computing Books: Continuing Growth and Diversity

Theodore J. Crovello

Projector Center

Bacteriophage

Lauritz A. Jensen, Mary Ann Amos

The Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart

Nevin Longenecker, Bradley Becker

Biology Today

Beautiful Spirals

Maura C. Flannery

Book Reviews

Ecology

Review: Microbial Ecology, by R. Campbell

Clyde Joel Carpenter

Review: An Introduction to Marine Ecology, by R. S. K. Barnes and R. N. Hughes

John R. Conway

Review: Urban Ecology: The Second European Ecological Symposium, Berlin, 8-12 September 1980, by R. Bornkamm, J. A. Lee, and M. R. D. Seaward

E. Gibbes Patton

General

Review: Biology 83: Current Titles in the Biological Sciences

Donald S. Dean

Review: Dictionary of Life Sciences, by E. A. Martin

Kenneth D. Burnham

Microbiology

Review: Essential Clinical Microbiology: An Introductory Text, by E. Mary Cooke and George L. Gibson

Willis H. Burroughs, Jr.

Review: Microbiology for the Allied Health Professions, by Adrian N. C. Delaat

David Bardell

Neurobiology

Review: A Primer of Psychobiology: Brain and Behavior, by Timothy J. Teylor

Dorothy L. Brock

Parasitology

Review: Modern Parasitology: A Text-Book of Parasitology, by F. E. G. Cox

William G. Barnes

Zoology

Review: Seals of the World, by Judith E. King

Arlene H. Chin

Review: Spiders of the World, by Rod Preston-Mafham and Ken Preston-Mafham

Henry J. Bindel, Jr.

AV Reviews

Review: Origins of Change: Heredity and Mutation, and Origins of Change: The Function of DNA

Thomas Fogle, Doris Watt

Review: Vertebrate Flash Cards, by Diane Herron Ferman and Physical Bases of Behavior (Posters), by James H. Meyer

Charles Bursey

Review: Recycling: Waste into Wealth, by Bullfrog Films

Millicent E. Tissair

Review: Out of the Past: The Record of the Rocks; Fossils: Plants and Tetraponds; And Fossils: Reptiles and Mammals

Dorothy H. Reardon

Review: The Man Who Loved Machines

Lynne Jordan Bowers

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