Splash Biography
HELEN WORRELL, ESP Teacher
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Major: Biology College/Employer: University of Chicago Year of Graduation: 2010 |
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
Not Available. Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)S578: Dinosaurs! in Splash! Fall 2010 (Oct. 02, 2010)
Do you love Jurassic Park? Did you have a triceratops on your 8th birthday cake? Or do you have questions about dinosaurs and paleontology? Then this class is for you! You will learn what scientists know about dinosaurs and how they know it. We'll talk about broad questions like what dinosaurs really looked like, how they went extinct, what a T Rex actually ate for lunch, and whether birds are really related to dinosaurs, but we'll also have plenty of time for other topics. So bring your questions and your inner 8-year-old, and let's talk DINOSAURS!
S409: Population Genetics in Splash! Fall 2009 (Oct. 03, 2009)
What do peppered moths and goldfish crackers have in common? Both can show us how natural selection causes evolutionary change!
This class will cover the basic ways in which populations change and evolve through mutation and natural selection. We will also learn about the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in a delicious goldfish-cracker "lab" simulation.
Prerequisite: Some background in biology, especially DNA and natural selection.
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