BIOL 3521 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Auraria Campus, Circulatory System, Ancestry.Com
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Census date (sept. 5: you may be dropped from a course without notification, double check your enrollment and make sure you"re in the right classes, you cannot join a class after this date. Discuss the pros and cons of dna data collection. The police department can track criminals through familial geneology: you may be caught for a crime because your sister submitted her dna to ancestry. com. People provide their dna to geneology companies. In the bylaws, a lot of the companies state that they now own your dna: they can sell your genetic information for profit. Criminals have been put away with less accurate evidence: dna and fingerprints vs lie detectors and eye-witness accounts. Especially a greedy corporation: useful for medicine, criminology, and data mining. Review pages 25-28 as needed to define: the biological species concept (based on reproductive isolation, population, speciation, systematics, taxon (plural: taxa, taxonomy. Review darwin"s 5 basic assumptions about evolutionary change via natural selection (page 34)
