A friend of mine recently presented me with a question to use as a place to begin research for this paper. She had been studying blood types in one of her classes, and after asking about my family’s blood types, she inquired, “If you and your brother have different blood types, how could you give him bone marrow?”
These pages are being generated as part of a senior seminar course directed by Neal Williams
at Bryn Mawr College during fall semester, 2007. This week's topic is
"Extinction Debt and Extinction Cascades"
Life,
as we have been studying it, starts off with small single celled organisms and
gradually includes more and more multicellular ones. The introduction of these
larger organisms has not by any means replaced the single celled one on this planet.
This impels one to consider whether there is any difference in the actual cells
found in either group that could account for this. If all things are made up of
the same building blocks, and we are all composed of cells, does that mean that
they are all the same cells?
These pages are being generated as part of a senior seminar course directed by Neal Williams
at Bryn Mawr College during fall semester, 2007. This week's topic is
"Biodiversity and Stability"
Reading to be discussed:
Ruivjen, van J., Berendse, F. (2007) Contrasting effects of diversity on the temporal stability of plant populations. Oikos 116: 1323-1330.
These pages are being generated as part of a senior seminar course directed by Neal Williams
at Bryn Mawr College during fall semester, 2007. This week's topic is
"Biodiversity hotspots and conservation"
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