Biology+Final+Exam



You and your partner will develop a video based on your research of an assigned topic, to be accomplished in the following series of steps:
 * 1) Receive your research topic from your instructor.
 * 2) You and your partner will participate in a thorough investigation of this topic. (note your sources for your Works Cited)
 * 3) You and your partner will develop a 3.5 essay on your topic.
 * 4) You and your partner will use the internet and Photostory 3 to save 25 - 50 pictures on your topic.
 * 5) You and your partner will use your essay to develop a script.
 * 6) You and your partner will use the internet to download music as a background for your script and pictures.
 * 7) You and your partner will use the pictures, music and script to create a video that will last 4 minutes.

One of the following topics will be assigned to you and your partner:
 * 1) The effectiveness of Gardisil in preventing cervical cancer.
 * 2) Biological rhythms in humans and other organisms.
 * 3) Can reading make you smarter?
 * 4) A study of Alzheimer's: causes and effects.
 * 5) Monarch butterfly migration: how, when, why and where?
 * 6) Asperger's Savant syndrome: who does it affect and how?
 * 7) Cellular communication: how do drugs alter physical and mental abilities?
 * 8) Prosthetic limbs: how they work and latest advances.
 * 9) The cooperation of eye and brain to produce vision.
 * 10) Dwarfism: causes, complications and symptoms.
 * 11) The use of an individual's own stem cells to regrow tissue.
 * 12) How does human memory work?
 * 13) Is there an "evil gene"?
 * 14) How long can people live?
 * 15) The case for and against bioengineered foods.

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