...443-885-3636 Email: Simon.Nyaga@morgan.edu Office Hours: MF 12:30-1:30 PM or by appointment Course Description: Introductory biology is a gateway course worth 4 credits specifically designed for non-biology majors. This is course covers major topics in biology shown below. The following general biology topics are thoroughly explored and discussed: the scientific method of solving problems, chemistry of cellular macromolecules, cellular structure and function, energy flow in cells with emphasis on respiration and photosynthesis, biotechnology and its application (emphasis on structure and function of nucleic acids), chromosomes and cell division and finally winds up a study of the basis of heredity (Genetics). In addition, evolution and its role in the creation of diversity are also thoroughly discussed. Textbook and Course Materials: What Is Life: A Guide to Biology, 2nd edition (with Prep U) by Jay Phelan published by; W. H. Freeman and Company, New York. Information on how to access Bioportal is to be found on the separate card which comes with the textbook. A used book will not enable you to access Bioportal and therefore no access to Prep-U and learning Curve quizzes. These quizzes have been shown to improve mastery of the course material and typically students who use Pre-U do better in the course. Laboratory Manual: Biology 1 Laboratory Manual (6th edition), Morgan State University, Published by Heyden-McNeil Publishing, Plymouth, MI Learning objectives...
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...nurses, doctors, pediatrics and many more. Dentists identify and treat problems having to do with teeth, gums, and mouth. They also give advice to patients, so that they can prevent future problems. I am always on the move in fact when I first arrive at work I hold a staff meeting in my office, to discuss about what type of patients I will be working with. After our meeting we immediately begin our work day. I am always busy; mostly dealing with diagnostic analysis, along with prevention and treatment of different types of dental diseases. My staff and I see several patients by appointment and walk-in during a given day. To become a dentist, you must complete at least four years of college (receiving a bachelor's degree in science, and biology) and then complete at least four more years of post-graduate study at a dental college. Dental schools require a minimum of 2 years of college-level pre-dental education prior to admission. In most States to qualify for a license, students must graduate from a qualified dental school and pass written and practical exam. Few applicants are accepted to dental school after 2 or 3 years of college and complete their bachelor's degree while attending dental school The four-year program at a dental college leads to degrees as either a doctor of dental surgery (DDS) or a doctor of dental medicine (DMD) degree. I may spend hours on my feet throughout my work day. And during those long hours, I must take any safety measures against infectious diseases...
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...Becoming a surgeon is a very difficult thing to achieve. It is also a very nerve racking job to do. You have to go through many years of education. The first step on the road to becoming a surgeon is paying attention in high school to science subjects like biology, physiology, chemistry, and physics. How you perform in these classes early on will help you determine whether a career in medicine is the right choice for you. The second step is to take the SATs, the required standardized test for college admission, your junior year and apply to various colleges and universities to increase your chance of acceptance. Improve your scores by taking an SAT prep course or hiring a private tutor to help you study for the test. The third step is to...
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...10 Steps to Earn a High GRE Score The following is a guide to scoring high on the GRE test. If you follow these steps, your GRE score will improve. 1. Relax: Preparing for the GRE can be stressful. Try to focus on the task at hand and not so much on everything else you have to do. If you take GRE test prep step-by-step, day-by-day, and give yourself breaks when your body needs them, you'll be able to concentrate on GRE studies a lot better. 2. GRE Diagnostic Test: Begin GRE test prep with a GRE practice test to find out what you're good at, and more importantly, what you're not good at. Correct your completed practice test and evaluate the questions you missed. What kind of questions did you miss? Are they mostly Quantitative or mostly Verbal? What score would you give yourself on Analytical Writing? Did you miss a lot of analogies but do well on reading comprehension? With this information you'll be able to focus your GRE test prep studies on your weaknesses. 3. GRE Study Plan: With your GRE weaknesses in mind, make a very specific study plan for yourself. You should know what, how, and when you are going to study for the GRE test. Put your study plan somewhere in plain view, and make sure you stick to your plan. Try to keep GRE test prep interesting by planning to study different things in different ways. For example, study GRE vocabulary from flash cards one day, from a list the second day, and by reading and learning words in context the third day. 4. GRE Vocabulary: ...
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...a lot of details that will help better my paper. I made an effort to revise my paper. I incorporated my peers review into it. I gave more details about the relationship between MacFarland and Mike. I also included Ken into my summary to help with the confusion of who he is. I also reworded sentences that were confusing. I’m hoping my revised final draft will give insight into this excerpt by Mike Rose. Ashley Reuzenaar Professor Hickman English 111 05D 2 September 2015 Summary and Response Educational scholar Mike Rose authored I Just Wanna be Average excerpt from Lives on the Boundary, a semi biography of his high school experience in vocational education at Our Lady of Mercy. Our Lady of Mercy administers an assortment of tests for placement. The author’s assessment was switched with another student putting the author into vocational courses. Vocational courses...
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...BIOLOGY 111-01 PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGY I MWF 9:00-9:50 FALL, 2013 Instructor: Ellen S. Lamb Office: 307 Sullivan Phone: 334-4974 (office) Email: eslamb@uncg.edu Office Hours: TBD For whom intended: Bio 111 is the first of a two-semester series of general biology courses for science majors. IF YOU HAVE BEEN ADMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF NURSING, YOU SHOULD NOT BE IN THIS COURSE!!! If you are considered “prehealth,” instead, then this is where you should be. This course satisfies one of the natural science courses (GNS) necessary for the completion of the General Education Curriculum (GEC) requirements. However, this course is not intended for non-science majors. Major Concepts in Biology (Bio 105), which may be taken with a laboratory component (Bio 105L), is also a GEC Natural Science course and is designed for students who are not majoring in the sciences. NOTE: YOU MUST BE REGISTERED FOR BIOLOGY 111 LABORATORY (BIO 111L) Required Items: • Text: Principles of Life, Hillis et al; 2012; first edition; you also need online access to BioPortal • Lab Manual: Principles of Biology I – A laboratory manual for students in BIO 111, 2013-2014 edition; (Lab coordinator is Mr. Joseph Bundy, Sullivan 304. Only he can help you recycle a previous lab grade, although you are welcome to ask me questions before seeing Mr. Bundy.) • Answer Sheets: All tests will be optically scanned multiple choice; YOU must provide your own 200-item answer sheets (Scantron Sheets...
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...Practical Nurse one must attain a high school diploma, and have completed and passed a nursing program with a Practical Nursing Diploma. Once the diploma is obtained the student must apply to the state licensing department and pass the state test. The student must also pass a physical and criminal background check. They should also have the love and passion for this profession. The Licensed Practical Nurse must perform duties that are within her/his scope of practice. The duties include, but are not limited to management of acute illnesses and injuries; treat medical problems; perform physical assessments and perform EKGs. The Practical Nurse must review that care of the patient with the physicians. The Practical Nurse can order prescriptions for all medications and medical devices. Prior to order medications the Practical Nurse must consult with the physician and prescriptions may not exceed 30 days. The primary responsibilities for the Licensed Practical Nurse are taking a detailed medical history and completing physical exams. The Practical Nurse provides care and counseling to HIV positive patients and those with sexual transmitted disease (STD), order medications, accountability of narcotic, administer and read diagnostic skin tests and...
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...English I 15 5 8 ENG 002 Prep. English II 15 5 8 MATH 001 Prep. Math I 3 1 4 MATH 002 Prep. Math II 3 1 4 PYP 001 Prep. Physical Science 2 0 2 PYP 002 Prep. Computer Science 0 2 1 PYP 003 University Study Skills 0 2 1 ME 003 Prep. Eng. Technology 0 2 1 PE 001 Prep. Health and Physical Educ. I 0 2 1 PE 002 Prep. Health and Physical Educ. II 0 2 1 20 10 16 18 12 15 Total credit hours required in Preparatory Program: 31 First Year (Freshman) MATH 101 Calculus I 4 0 4 MATH 102 Calculus II 4 0 4 PHYS 101 General Physics I 3 3 4 PHYS 102 General Physics II 3 3 4 ENGL 101 An Intro to Academic Discourse 3 0 3 ENG 102 Intro to Report Writing 3 0 3 CHEM 101 General Chemistry I 3 3 4 ICS 102 Intro. To Computing I 2 3 3 IAS 111 Belief & its Consequences 2 0 2 IAS 101 Practical Grammar 2 0 2 PE 101 Physical Education I 0 2 1 15 6 17 14 8 17 Second...
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...Ambient Insight's Q1-Q3 2015 International Learning Technology Investment Patterns Table Of Contents Tables.................................................................................................. 3 Figures ................................................................................................ 3 The Global Learning Technology Investment Patterns ........................ 4 Scope of this Whitepaper: What We Don't Track and What We Do Track ..... 5 What We Do Not Track .......................................................................................... 5 What We Do Track ................................................................................................ 6 New Interest in Location-based Learning: Mapping Companies Attract Unprecedented Funding........ 7 Cognitive Learning in the Spotlight: Spike in Investments in Behavior Modification Companies ........ 9 Sources of Investment Activity Information .............................................. 11 Investment Patterns in Context: The Longitudinal Perspective ......... 11 Blowing Past the $3 Billion Threshold ....................................................... 12 The China-India-Brazil Juggernaut ............................................................ 12 Opening the Floodgates: Unprecedented Deal Flows in 2015 ............ 13 Funding Amounts Over $50 million in First Three Quarters of 2015 .. 16 Retail Education: Consumer-facing Companies Still Attracting Investments...
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...The Oxford 3000™ The keywords of the Oxford 3000 have been carefully selected by a group of language experts and experienced teachers as the words which should receive priority in vocabulary study because of their importance and usefulness. The selection is based on three criteria. The words which occur most frequently in English are included, based on the information in the British National Corpus and the Oxford Corpus Collection. (A corpus is an electronically held collection of written or spoken texts, often consisting of hundreds of millions of words.) However, being frequent in the corpus alone is not enough for a word to qualify as a keyword: it may be that the word is used very frequently, but only in a narrowly defined area, such as newspapers or scientific articles. In order to avoid including these restricted words, we include as keywords only those words which are frequent across a range of different types of text. In other words, keywords are both frequent and used in a variety of contexts. In addition, the list includes some very important words which happen not to be used frequently, even though they are very familiar to most users of English. These include, for example, words for parts of the body, words used in travel, and words which are useful for explaining what you mean when you do not know the exact word for something. These words were identified by consulting a panel of over seventy experts in the fields of teaching and language study. The words of the Oxford...
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...Eyeless mutation gene located within the second intron of Drosophila melanogaster Justin Lazarus Genetic 300 Abstract The following experiment was conduct over a several week time span to determine and identify the mutation that is causing the eyeless mutation within the Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies. The experiment included genome sequencing and comparison between the Drosophila melanogaster wild type and the Drosophila melanogaster eyeless type. After combining the two different phenotypes. We determined that we were unable to visualize the mutation at a chromosomal level, as both wild-type and eyeless flies looked similar. The experiment involved electrophoresis and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) through which we were able to isolate and amplify the needed DNA eyeless DNA. The difference between the wild-type Drosophila melanogaster and the eyeless Drosophila melanogaster is approximately only 500-nucleotide base pairs. As we see the eyeless phenotype is approximately 3000 base pairs in length while the wild-type phenotype is approximately 2500 nucleotides base pairs in length, a difference of about 500 base pairs. After completing nucleotide sequencing and comparing our data on the blast website, we determined that the eyeless mutation has being interest exons two and three, but more specifically the mutation itself was located within the second intron at base pairs 8264 to 9212. Introduction In the early 20th century scientists had already been acquainted with...
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...lots (of)) a, an art indet a.m. (USA tb A.M.) abrev abandon v abandoned adj ability n able adj about adv, prep un poco un par unos cuantos algo / un poco mucho un/a Ante meridiam abandonar abandonado habilidad poder hacer algo affect v más o menos, hacia, por aquí / affection n prep: sobre algo above prep, adv por encima, más arriba / adv: afford v arriba afraid adj abroad adv en el extranjero after adv, prep, absence n ausencia conj absent adj ausente afternoon n absolute adj absoluto afterwards (USA absolutely adv absolutamente tb afterward) adv absorb v absorber again adv abuse n, v abusar, abuso against prep academic adj académico age n accent n acento aged adj accept v aceptar agency n acceptable adj aceptable agent n access n acceso aggressive adj accident n accidente ago adv accidental adj accidental agree v accidentally adv accidentalmente accommodation alojamiento, espacio, plazas agreement n ahead adv n accompany v acompañar aid n, v according to según algo aim n, v prep account n, v cuenta, relato / considerar air n aircraft n accurate adj preciso airport n accurately adv con precisión alarm n, v accuse v acusar a alguien alarmed adj achieve v lograr alarming adj achievement n logro alcohol n acid n acido alcoholic adj, n acknowledge v reconocer/agradecer/enterarse alive adj all adj, pron, acquire v adquirir adv across adv, a través de / all right adj, prep adv, interj act n, v acto, ley / actuar allied adj action n acción allow v active adj activo actively adv...
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...HIV/AIDS in the United States Jamie Green Grand Canyon University: NRS-427V April 06, 2014 HIV/AIDS in the United States Scientists identified simian immunodeficiency virus, in chimpanzees in West Africa, as the source of the mutated human virus through contact with the chimpanzee’s infected blood (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014). Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) is a preventable, transmissible infection first reported in the United States (U.S.) in 1981. More than 30 years later, HIV infection continues to spread in epidemic proportion discernable by reported demographic information. The community health nurse (CHN) performs many rolls to support demographical information collection, epidemiologic research, addressing determinates of health, providing preventive services, building and collaborating with community resources while effecting change to increase the well-being of communities across the nation. Description of Communicable Disease Dr. Robert Gallo (U.S.) is credited with discovering the retrovirus believed to be the cause HIV/AIDS. Simultaneous research in France, by Dr. Luc Montagnier and Professor Francoise Barre-Sinousi, substantiated Dr. Gallo’s discovery. The retrovirus invades cells of the body’s immune system, incapacitating the immune response over time, eventually leaving the body defenseless against opportunistic infections (OIs). HIV is suppressible but not curable. Medications can slow viral activity for decades...
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...www.VOASpecialEnglish.com Word Book A list of words used in Special English programs on radio, television and the Internet EDITION SpecialEnglish Word Book A list of words used in Special English programs on radio, television and the Internet Voice of America Washington, D.C. 20237 www.VOASpecialEnglish.com EDITION 4 AB D FG I K L N PQ S UV YZ 5 Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Parts of Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Word List & Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 Special Words & Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111 Common Prefixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113 Common Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115 Numbers, Days, Months . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116 Chemical Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119 Organs of the Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121 Computer Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122 Business Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124 United States Branches of Government . . . . . . . . . .126 Map of the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128 Map of the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130 Presidents of the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132 www...
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...Resume Guide for Teachers This packet is intended to serve as a starting point for creating or improving your teaching resume. Included in this packet are best practices that the Career Center have researched and found to be true. Information and sample resumes within this packet are not intended to be taken verbatim. Constructing a teaching resume is an art, not a science. Make your personal resume unique and stand out by making it represent you. The resources this packet highlights are available to all students; take advantage of the Career Center and the services it provides you. What to Expect Teaching Resume Aesthetics, Content & Editing…………..………………………..Page 3 Three necessary components of a great teaching resume are detailed Key Elements of a Successful Teacher Resume……………………………………...Page 4 Mandatory vs. optional elements in a successful teaching resume Poor Teaching Resume Example……………………………………………………..Page 5 Details common mistakes of a teaching resume Transferable Skills & Action Verbs…………………………………………………....Page 6 A comprehensive list of transferable skills and action verbs that have potential in a teaching resume Constructing a Proper Achievement Statement (bullet point)………………………Page 7 Creating a bullet point stress you out? Here is a fool proof way to construct a proper achievement statement. Buzz Words……………………………………………………………………………..Page 7 Answer the question, “What are buzz words and how should they be used in a resume” Teaching...
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