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BIOLOGY sa ANIMAL sa BIRD sa ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE sa FUNGUS sa INSECT sa LIE DETECTOR sa PHYSIOLOGY sa PLANT sa REACTION TIMING sa WORM xx SCIENCE Collecting and keeping microscopic organisms. Berlese separator, a device that will force the animals and insects in a soil sample into an alcohol preservative. Make a waterscope for viewing the world beneath the surface of a lake, pond or stream. How to grow colonies of bacteria. The brains of men and machines. Part 1. Biological models for robotics. Introduction to concepts of the human brain and its simulation in robotic mechanisms. The brains of men and machines. Part 2. How the brain controls outputs. The brains of men and machines. Part 3. How the brain analyzes input. The brains of men and machines. Part 4. The machinery of emotion and choice. Animation in computer-assisted instruction. Includes a BASIC program which generates a visual display of DNA replication. Biomechanics cinematography. An introduction to this method for analyzing and interpreting athletic performance. Unlocking the secrets inside a clam shell. How to slice (section) clam shells and mount them for investigation. Simulating the human brain using CMOS inverters. Circuits include a novel "neuron-like" A/D converter. Adventures with circadian rhythms. Easy-to-build circuits let you study how living organisms react to changes in normal environment. Space horticulture. A collection of circuits and experiments to study the growing of plants in an artificial environment, such as a space craft. Part 1. Space horticulture. Part 2. How to deliver a baby. The role of capsaicin in carcinogenesis. Description of a sophisticated science fair project in biochemistry. Experiments in photoaxis, the response of organisms to changes in illumination. How to isolate microorganisms that secrete antibiotics from samples of topsoil. How to cultivate the slime molds and perform experiments on them. How to record and listen to the electrical signals produced by microscopic animals. Experiments with animal cells living in tissue culture. Building miniature, short-range transmitters of the type often used in biomedicine. Applications shown include (1) temperature-sensing, (2) pressure-sensing, (3) long-range animal tracking, (4) pH sensing, and (5) a passive transmitter. How to study antigens and antibodies by their diffusion pattern in agar. A simple experiment that amateurs can perform to investigate the chemistry of biological immunity. Experiments in generating the constituents of living matter from inorganic substances. Includes construction details of an apparatus for synthesizing amino acids with heat. How to study the life of a pond. Details of a limnological study that was a prize-winning Science Fair project. An observatory (Benthobservatory) built in the middle of a pond, with waterproof windows in the walls, provides a good view of aquatic animals and plants. Built of plywood, covered with fiberglass, and attached to a concrete base. Entry is through a roof hatch. How an amateur can construct a model of an enzyme molecule that is both skeletal and space-filling. The amateur scientist. All about phosphenes, those luminous patterns that appear when the eyes are closed and pressed with your fingers. How to observe visual artifacts (also known as "floaters" or entoptic phenomena) that result from blood cells in front of the retina. A computer program that allows the best answer to evolve. Understanding and writing a simple genetic algorithm and using it in some experiments. Neurons for computers. Introduction to the creating and training of computer models of artificial neural networks. Biodiversity in your backyard. Systematic inventories of the plant species which occupy a 16-meter square area shows how to construct species-area curves. Teaching a few simple tricks to the lowly fruit fly. How to teach insects to respond to an odor by raising some fruit flies and testing them in a simple wind tunnel. Creating biological oscillators from fireflies. Artificial (electronic) fireflies synchronize their flashes as each is affected by the other's blinking (just as real fireflies do in nature). Genetically altering Escherichia coli (E coli). Experimenting with DNA alteration by inserting a gene for resistance to penicillin into the bacterium. Measuring the metabolism of small organisms, like insects, using a Warburg apparatus which you build yourself. Build a micromotion detector that can count insect heartbeats. Relies on the use of minuscule magnets and a sensitive Hall effect transducer. Est. cost: $40. Techniques for exploring the life in a small pond. Includes instructions for constructing a light-baited trap, a grappling hook, and a dredge net for specimen collection. Amateur biotechnology. Extracting and purifying DNA from plant cells in your own kitchen using ordinary household products. Sorting molecules with electricity. A plastic soap dish with a layer of agarose gel permits complex molecular mixtures to be separated by electrophoresis. Describes an experiment to determine if two plant species (with the exact same color of flower) use the same molecules as pigments. | |||||||||
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