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SDD15: What's Eating You! The parasites in our lives.
Hours: 1.5
Parasites represent one of the most important forces guiding the evolution of life on Earth. While there are many organisms that live parasitically, parasites are primarily confined to four major categories: protists, flatworms, roundworms, and arthropods. See examples of some of the most important ones directly affecting humans: what they look like, what effects they have on us, how we acquire them, and how to avoid them. This has special interest for us as the climate changes and formerly tropical species move into our part of the world.
Steve Bratteng has been lab supervisor for freshman biology at UT Austin, a middle school science and social studies teacher, a high school science teacher, and an adjunct professor at ACC over a career covering forty plus years. During that time, among other things, he has learned to make Power Point presentations that are sort of gross. |
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