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Volume 63, Issue 5
May 2001
The American Biology Teacher Cover Image for Volume 63, Issue 5
ISSN 0002-7685
EISSN 1938-4211
Front Matter
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Clarification
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Performance Assessment of a Standards-Based High School Biology Curriculum
William H. Leonard, Barbara J. Speziale, John E. Penick
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Student/Scientist Partnerships: A Teachers' Guide to Evaluating the Critical Components
Celia A. Evans, Eleanor D. Abrams, Barrett N. Rock, Shannon L. Spencer
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An Interdisciplinary Perspective: Infectious Diseases & History
Jenifer Turco, Melanie Byrd
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Back Matter
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Guest Editorial

On Being a Department Chairperson
Marshall D. Sundberg
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Letters

Teaching How to Answer "Why" Questions about Biology Lauded
Grace Ekpenyong
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How-To-Do-It

Would You Trust a Bryophyte for Directions? A Field Exercise for Determining the Distribution of Moss on Trees
Lissa M. Leege
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Spontaneously Generating Life in Your Classroom? Pasteur, Spallanzani & Science Process
Scott Byington
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Mouse Behavior: Conjectures about Adaptations for Survival
Charles Rop
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Meeting the Standards with Vanishing Frogs
Cindy B. Davidson, Catherine E. Matthews, Patricia Patrick
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Modeling the Classic Meselson & Stahl Experiment
JoBeth D'Agostino
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Biotechnology for Non-Biology Majors: An Activity Using a Commercial Biotechnology Laboratory
Francis P. Wray, Mary C. Fox, Carl A. Huether, Eric R. Schurdak
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Biology Today

Exploring Other Genomes: Bacteria
Maura C. Flannery
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Book Reviews

Epidemiology
Review: Epidemic! The World of Infectious Disease, by Rob DeSalle and American Museum of Natural History
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Review: Killer Germs: Microbes and Diseases That Threaten Humanity, by Barry E. Zimmerman and David J. Zimmerman
Gregory D. Fisher
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Forensic Entomology
Review: A Fly for the Prosecution: How Evidence Helps Solve Crimes, by M. Lee Goff
Phillip Eichman
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Natural History
Review: The Nearsighted Naturalist, by Ann Haymond Zwinger; Driftwood Valley: A Woman Naturalist in the Northern Wilderness, by Theodora C. Stanwell-Fletcher; and Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys into the Time before Bones, by Sue Hubbell
Gail A. Baker, Rhoda M. Love
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Genetics
Review: Chance's Choices, by Edward M. Kloza and Paula K. Haddow
Kristin J. Hudlow
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Assessment
Review: Assessing Science Understanding: A Human Constructivist View, by Joel J. Mintzes, James H. Wandersee, and Joseph D. Novak
Robert A. Cooper
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Systematics & Biodiversity
Review: The Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of All the Creatures That Have Ever Lived, by Colin Tudge
Dorothy A. Ginnett
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Young Science
Review: Living with Deafness, by Emma Haughton; Living with Cerebral Palsy, by Paul Pimm; Living with Leukemia, by Patsy Westcott; and Living with Blindness, by Patsy Westcott
Phillip Eichman
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Review: Grow Your Own Pizza: Gardening Plans and Recipes for Kids, by Constance Hardesty
Dorothy A. Ginnett
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Children's Science
Review: Nature's Paintbrush: The Patterns and Colors around You, by Susan Stockdale
Kristin J. Hudlow
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All Issues
Collaboration to Cultivate the Practices of Science: Local Ecological Research as a Gateway to Biodiversity Science
Describing Plant Morphology Through Forest Prototype in Biology Learning
Techniques for Investigating the Effect of Various Wavelengths of Light on the Behavior of Aquatic Animals
Collecting Novel Data From iNaturalist Photos to Teach Students About the Impacts of Urbanization on Animal Behavior & Ecological Interactions
Miami, My Garden: Creating Tomorrow’s Botanists Through a Botanical Garden–High School Partnership
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