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= Week 2 = Links - chemistry

**Comment** biochemistry book
 * Link Title** [|Biochemistry]
 * Level of Information** College/University
 * Format** text
 * URL Address** []

** Level of Information ** College/University ** Format ** text ** URL Address ** []
 * Link Title ** [|The ChemWiki]
 * Comment ** The ChemWiki project is a new approach toward chemistry education where an Open Access textbook environment is constantly being written and re-written partly by students and partly by faculty members resulting in a free Chemistry textbook to supplement or supplant conventional paper-based books.

** Level of Information ** College/University ** Format ** text ** URL Address ** []
 * Link Title ** [|WebElements]
 * Comment ** Not a textbook at all, but rather an interactive periodic table.

**Link Title**[| Genetics, DNA Extraction and the Human Genome Project] **Level of Information** College/University **Format** audio - podcast **URL Address** [] **Comment** Discussion about the importance of sequencing genomes and how the Human Genome Project has improved medicine; explains how humans share genetic material with worms but look completely different.

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[|The Double Helix]

= Week 3 = Group project 1 - DNA Research Timeline

= = =** Week 4 **= [|Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) of Genetic Knowledge]
 * Activity 1 Food for Thought**

Scientists working in the Human Genome Project thought that genetic information would change health care and would allow earlier diagnosis of diseases. But this knowledge could be used in hurtful or unfair ways too. That is why the founders of the project started the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of genetic knowledge. It is questionable if people would like to know their genetic information and how this could be used.

[|Nature vs. Nurture in the Criminal Justice System]
 * Activity 2 Exploring Ethical Issues**

Everyone's personality is a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Scientists believe that human behavior and trait is a mixture of genetics and environment. A man charged by assault was put under a series of genetic tests to find out if he carries the genetic mutations associated with violent behavior. The tests showed these mutations, so the lawyer suggested to the court to send him in a psychiatric facility instead of prison. I think that our behavior shouldn't be justifyed by genetic mutations. Everyone should assume full responsability over their actions. Irresponsable behavior can be accepted from those with serious mental illness, not from people only with some DNA mutations.

= Week 6 = Getting rewards for our work it is a great feeling. This way we can see that our work is appreciated, we achieved something with that. But beside the recognition or any kind of material reward, there is more. The idea, the feeling of finishing a work with success is better than anything else. With everything we do, we gain experience, learn something new, get trough many difficulties, and all these at the end result a well done work. To have a work done is the reward which worth the most.
 * Activity 2**
 * “The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.” [|Ralph Waldo Emerson] **

= Week 8, 9 = Oral presentation tips, conversational topics, speaking exercise

= Week 10 =
 * Activity 2**

[|Picture] This picture shows some people, family and/or friends, having fun at a party. They are gathered around a table on a veranda, in the background there are trees, part of a garden, and we can see that the veranda is decorated with balloons and crepe streamers. They are celebrating a happy event, probably a birthday. They take this picture to put it in an album, so that they can remember this party. The photo is not artificial or posed, it is natural, and it shows real life. The people are happy, they are having a good time, and probably they won’t forget this party for a long time.

**End of semester Project**