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Volume 71, Issue 6

August 2009

ISSN 0002-7685

EISSN 1938-4211

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Biology Today
Editorial
Book Reviews
- Evolution
- General Interest
How-To-Do-Its
Inquiry & Investigations
Letters

From the President

John Moore

Front Matter

Popular Media in the Biology Classroom: Viewing Popular Science Skeptically

Grant E. Gardner, M. Gail Jones, Miriam Ferzli

Back Matter

Biology Today

Mirrors & Maps: Two Sides of Metaphor

Maura C. Flannery

Editorial

Why Is Biology so "Tough"?

Bill Leonard, William H. Leonard

Book Reviews

Evolution

Review: Into the Jungle: Great Adventures in the Search for Evolution, by Sean B. Carroll

Larry Grimes

General Interest

Review: Gardening with Children, by Monika Hannemann, Patricia Hule, Brian Johnsson, Barbara Kurland, and Tracey Patterson

Sharon Cornwall

How-To-Do-Its

A Visual Demonstration of Plasmid DNA Preparation from Bacteria

Ralph L. Keil, Laura K. Palmer

Light-Mediated Germination in Lettuce Seeds: Resurrection of a Classic Plant Physiology Lab Exercise

Michael M. Neff, Lori Sanderson, Dan Tedor

Inquiry & Investigations

Laboratory Exercises to Examine Recombination & Aneuploidy in Drosophila

Dennis R. Venema

A Simple Membrane Osmometer System & Experiments That Quantitatively Measure Osmotic Pressure

Stephen C. Marvel, Megan V. Kepler

Defending the Lowly Prokaryotes: New Challenges for BIOGaia Learning Activity

Abour H. Cherif, Linda Michel, Farahnaz Movahedzadeh, Robert Aron, Gerald Adams ...

Letters

Inquiry Learning

Peter Eastwell

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Tropical Arctic: Lost Plants, Future Climates, and the Discovery of Ancient Greenland

The Inside Out of Flies

Miseducation: How Climate Change Is Taught in America

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