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Comment on Kim Foglia by The Babbling Brook » Blog Archive » AP Biology – Cellular Transport Wrap-UP

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 02:57:06 +0000

[...] The assignment (and many of the other things I’ve used this year) is from Kim Foglia. Kim was an exceptionally passionate biology teacher who passed away this month after battling pancreatic cancer for many several years. You can read a little bit about her here. [...]

Comment on When Biology Becomes Personal by One New Thing a Day | One New Thing

One New Thing a Day | One New Thing — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 01:11:23 +0000

[...] and failures of her own body with the curiosity that only a biologist could possibly muster (http://www.nabt.org/blog/2009/05/19/when-biology-becomes-personal/ [...]

Comment on World’s Biggest Demo by rheyden

rheyden — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:38:09 +0000

Or maybe a “Collaboratory” – ha! Glad you like it Patsye! Now how to do it?

Comment on World’s Biggest Demo by Patsye

Patsye — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:55:59 +0000

I love it! A Lab-off or a Lab-in, and a heck of a lot of collaborative data – one way to make photosynthesis more interesting, huh?!

Comment on World’s Biggest Demo by Brad Williamson

Brad Williamson — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:00:57 +0000

Cool idea, Robin…..

Let’s put some thought to this.

Comment on A Social Media Experiment at #NABT 2010 by rheyden

rheyden — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 11:46:52 +0000

Way to go, Patsye! Watching/listening is a great start. Knowing you, I’m going to predict that you’ll be right in there swinging with your creative ideas before long.

Comment on A Social Media Experiment at #NABT 2010 by Patsye

Patsye — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 19:43:04 +0000

Thanks to these great presenters I have bitten the bullet and signed up for Twitter. I probably won’t be tweeting, but I will be watching! Thanks to you all for making the effort to share this “good stuff” with everyone. Hopefully this conference is going to jumpstart our biology community!

Comment on Biology Challenge by Brad Williamson

Brad Williamson — Mon, 24 May 2010 21:47:16 +0000

Nicely done but I think you’ll want to look over the ants a bit more—check out those gasters in the top ants in the top image…..that’s a hint.

Comment on Biology Challenge by kfoglia

kfoglia — Mon, 24 May 2010 01:26:52 +0000

OOOH, ooooh, pick me, pick me!!

We’ve got a 3 way relationship here between:
* milkweed — Asclepias sp.
* aphids — Aphis sp. (nerii?) Oleander aphids?
* ants — Formica sp.

Great examples of coevolution and mutualism

1. The milkweed produces secondary metabolites (cardiac glycosides) to deter herbivorous predators.
2. The aphids are sucking plant fluids from phloem, but packaging up the toxic glycosides from the milkweed just like monarchs do. By the way, they are colored yellow as an example of Mullerian mimicry — warning signal that they are toxic.
3. The ants are tending and milking the aphids to collect their honeydew, siphoning off some of those plant sugars.

FUN STUFF!

My milkweed is just leafing out so we are behind you a few weeks.
I will have to watch and take photographs as well.

BTW, couldn’t find the site you referred to.

Comment on My House Hawk by richardbenz

richardbenz — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:31:01 +0000

Thanks. I guess Stewart’s “Paying Ready Attention ” is rubbing off on me. RB