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The Biology Project: Human Biology: Dna Forensics Problem Set 1
Students have the opportunity to interpret actual case results from the use of the Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) method to characterize human DNA samples as applied in paternity analysis and sex crimes investigations.
University of Arizona
The Biology Project: Human Biology: Dna Forensics Problem Set 2
Students practice a problem using DNA profile analysis to characterize human DNA samples as applied in paternity analysis and sex crimes investigations.
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Science Buddies: Effects of Exercise: Changes in Carbon Dioxide Output
Everybody knows that your body needs oxygen to keep going, and that you breathe out carbon dioxide as waste. What happens when you exercise? You've probably noticed that you breathe faster, and your heart beats faster. What triggers your...
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Science Buddies: Pinocchio's Arm: A Lie Detector Test
You might be surprised to learn that you have been practicing skills closely tied to lying if you have ever seen someone in pain, or mimicked your favorites sports athlete. In this science fair project, you will discover how your brain...
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Science Buddies: Now You See It, Now You Don't! Test Your Peripheral Vision
The survival of our ancient ancestors depended on their ability to use peripheral vision to find prey and to avoid predators. Almost everything we do-from riding a bike, to dribbling a basketball, to reading a book-depends on peripheral...
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Science Buddies: Deep Knee Bends: Measuring Knee Stress With a Mechanical Model
Prosthetic limbs and artificial joints can help people with disease or injury lead a normal life. Sports medicine or physical therapy is also an area that relates to this experiment. Either way, this project serves as a good match if any...
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Science Buddies: Are You Left or Right Sided?
Our brains are split into two parts, right inside our head. One half is the left brain and the other half is the right brain. Each side of your brain controls different parts of your body and most people are more dominant controlling one...
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Science Buddies: Measuring Your Threshold of Hearing
How your ears and your brain turn the sound waves out there in the world into the experience of music in your head, remains a mystery to many, but yet we all experience and even enjoy sounds and music. If you're interested in doing a...
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Science Buddies: Twirls, Whirls, Spins, & Turns: Reflexes & Dizziness
Tilt-A-Whirls, Merry-Go-Rounds, Spinning Tea Cups. Just the thought of these rides is enough to make someone dizzy, or queasy. Learn about spins, turns, and the mixed signals that fire in our brains when the sensation of dizziness takes...
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Teach Engineering: Humans Are Like Robots
Four lessons related to robots and people present students with life sciences concepts related to the human body (including brain, nervous systems and muscles), introduced through engineering devices and subjects (including computers,...
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Teach Engineering: Body Circulation
Students are introduced to the circulatory system, the heart, and blood flow in the human body. Through guided pre-reading, during-reading and post-reading activities, students learn about the circulatory system's parts, functions and...
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Teach Engineering: Human and Robot Sensors
Students are provided with a rigorous background in human "sensors" (including information on the main five senses, sensor anatomies, and nervous system process) and their engineering equivalents, setting the stage for three associated...
University of Arizona
The Biology Project: Human Biology: Color Blindness Problem Set
This problem set is based on a question received from a woman with red-green color blind as well as other members of her family. She wanted to know if we could help her understand how she inherited her color blindness.
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Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Don't Get Burned: Uv Index Throughout the Day
Sun tanning has a bad rap right now. Use a personal ultraviolet monitor to measure the UV index to prevent getting a sunburn. With this science fair project you will create a chart showing the UV ray measurement at different times of the...
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Science Buddies: Are Your Eyes Playing Tricks on You?
Yogi Berra said "You can observe a lot by just watching." In this human biology science fair project, you will observe how your eyes perceive color by watching afterimages. Afterimages are what you see after staring at an object for...
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Science Buddies: Heart Rate Recovery Times
After exercise, your heart rate increases, this is normal for everyone. However this experiment asks whether the recovery time for a heart's beating rate is faster for people who get regular exercise versus those that do not.
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Science Buddies: Breath of Life: Does Exercise Increase Vital Capacity?
When you take a deep breath, the amount of air you are capable of holding within your lungs, is known as your lung capacity. It is not the same for everyone. This lab asks you to find out if it is possible to increase your lung capacity...
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Science Buddies: The Nose Knows Smell but How About Taste?
As if sniffles and clogged sinuses are bad enough, everything seems to taste bland and flavorless when we are sick. Gather up a few volunteers, hit the kitchen, and try this experiment to find out if there is really truth to the idea...
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Science Buddies: Measuring Your Taste Threshold
Some people are more susceptible to flavors than others. This experiment asks you to test your threshold for the three types of taste our tongues are capable of experiencing: salty, sweet, and sour.
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Marine Biological Laboratory: Why Study Marine Organisms for Biomedical Research
Descriptions of various research projects using marine organisms that have direct impact on medical research. The resource has a perspective on how medicine makes progress.
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Science Buddies: How Are Antibodies Used for Blood Typing?
The human immune system has various ways of responding to an infection caused by bacteria or viruses. Our bodies produce proteins (antibodies) that are highly specific for the infectious agent as a part of our "humoral" immune response....
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Teach Engineering: Are We Like Robots?
Students explore the similarities between how humans move and walk and how robots move, so they come to see the human body as a system from an engineering point-of-view. Movement results from decision making (deciding to walk and move)...
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Teach Engineering: Polluted Air = Polluted Lungs
To gain a better understanding of the roles and functions of components of the human respiratory system and our need for clean air, students construct model lungs that include a diaphragm and chest cavity. They see how air moving in and...
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Science Buddies: A Day in the Life of Your Heart
Heart rates can be determined by the amount of physical activity your body is engaging in. The more physically active you are, the faster your heart beats. You can measure the rate your heart is beating by taking your pulse. This science...