Biology 446  Unsolved Problems Fall 2007   Albert Harris

 

Written Assignment: to be handed in Tuesday October 23

Read the xeroxed review article "A Dozen Questions About How Cells Crawl"

Read The ON-LINE web description of how body cells crawl at this URL:

http://www.cellmigration.org/index.shtml

and in particular the part of this at URL

http://www.cellmigration.org/science/index.shtml

Then write either one or the other of the following commentaries on this review paper
(your answer should take three of four pages, single spaced typed)

EITHER write a comparison, contrasting the conclusions, assumptions and point of view of these web sites, as compared with the Xeroxed review paper (A Dozen Questions...)
Among other approaches, you might ask and discuss how many of the "dozen questions" asked in the review paper are actually answered in these web pages, in the sense of the web page material on "cell migration" either containing information or experimental results that answer some of the dozen questions, and how many of these questions do those who wrote the web page simply ignore?.

OR Make as complete and long a list as you can of all the alternative hypotheses that are proposed or discussed in the Xeroxed review paper (there are a total of more than 70)

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