free online life sciences education resource update 07/30/15
Mark Lasbury
Good morning,
Did you know that if
a woman wants to get pregnant, the best shot is if her ovaries release eggs in
a right, right, left pattern? Or that a small hair on cells is what determines
your right side from your left side? Do you realize that your internal organs
may be in very different places than normal or that conjoined twins also have
organ placement problems?
These are some of the recent stories we have addressed on a
free online resource developed to increase learner engagement and educator
content knowledge. As Many Exceptions As Rules tells the stories of organisms that
break biological rules or norms in order to survive and thrive. Through these
stories, the core concepts of the science are reinforced.
The resource can be accessed at: http://biologicalexceptions.blogspot.com
Posted weekly, each story includes pertinent vocabulary with
etymology, interesting questions to spark discussion, links to the reports from
the latest research on the subject being discussed, and a list of online
resources for more information and classroom activities.
Upcoming topics will
include the story of how identical twins aren’t anywhere near identical – they
can even be different genetically. Mosaic twins, mirror twins, parasitic twins:
monozygotic twins come in many flavors. Also, while monozygotic twins are
random, why do tall women, overweight women, African women and older have more
dizygotic twins?
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Mark E. Lasbury, MS, MSEd, PhD
Indiana University School of Medicine
IUPUI School of Education
As Many Exceptions As Rules