I need your help. What topics in biology are interesting enough as to research journals and write about? I have a senior seminar presentation that am meant to discuss a biology topic and yet there are so many that am so confused. Any ideas please?
2007-01-25 09:30:00 · 5 answers · asked by Curiousgal 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
how bout genetics and how they're putting genes from organisms into different organisms
2007-01-25 09:35:44 · answer #1 · answered by wesnaw1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Biology Seminar Topics
2016-10-19 08:44:58 · answer #2 · answered by shiner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will need to give us more information than that. Are you in high school or college? For instance, in high school, I gave a very general 10 minute presentation on evolution and ontogeny. But last semester I gave a 1-2 hour presentation on the paper "An RNA gene expressed during cortical development evolved rapidly in humans."
Does your topic need to be broad or specific? How long do you need to talk for?
Also what topics do you find most interesting? There is tons of stuff on nearly any topic you can think of, so don't worry about not being able to find articles. Are there any animals you like a lot? Are there any plants? What about countries/ecosystems? Or you can go small. How about a bacteria or a virus? You could talk about strange diseases. You could also consider human disorders like heart disease, scoliosis, obesity.
You may want to read Yahoo news articles on Health or Science to see if there are any new exciting developments. They just got the first video footage of a rare shark, if that interests you.
Feel free to email me if you'd like to discuss this. I have experience in helping people narrow topics/ideas into focused reports.
2007-01-25 10:10:07 · answer #3 · answered by retzy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suggest something simple with many good reviews and articles out there, but next time be more specific. Your question is like asking if anyone knows any good topic for a semiar about human history:
1. The genetic basis of transplantation biology/organ rejection.
2. Heart development and congenital heart disease.
3. Adult stem cell biology like with hematopoietic stem cells, which are really interesting. Stay away from the embryonic stem cell debate!!!!
4. The cell cycle and the problems of cell division and how the cell have evolved numerous mechanisms to prevent catastrophe during this process.
5. The molecular subversion of the host immune system by microogranisms. This is absolutely fascinating, that bugs can hide from our immune system by making a protein that once inside our cells can change which genes are turned on directly and inhibit an inflammatory response by taking out NF-kB. (Hint)
Tons more but these are really topical right not. #5 is good since what kills almost all people in this world is not cancer, HIV/AIDS, heart disease, or influenza but infectious microorganisms. Something to remember. P.S. I used to do research on cancer biology and now I do heart development/genetics and adult stem cell biology with hematopoietic stem cells. I just think that fact is really something people should remember since in this country we don't have the same problems as the rest of the world. Think globally. Cheers.
2007-01-27 21:41:41 · answer #4 · answered by rgomezam 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Viruses. Viruses provide tons of material of great interest to all due to their publicity in medicine, such as HIV and Influenza. So if you will be presenting to people who generally aren't all that interested in biology or people who have a background in biology viruses may be a good selection. A few specific suggestion, as I gather you need to cite research jounals.
The Sanger Institute has recently published the 407 kb genome of Emiliania huxleyi virus 86. EhV86 is a double stranded DNA virus that infects a marine phytoplankton host (Emiliania huxleyi). The phytoplankton itself forms massive blooms in oceanic waters. There are pictures of the phytoplankton blooms in the ocead and pictures of the phytoplankton at the website
http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/EhV/
anyway the virus is cool in that it is responsable for regulatin the blooms or the population of the phytoplankton.
Another intersting topic might be the search for a model organism to research influenza H5N1 in. Presently, the only animal model utilized to study H5N1 has been ferrets, which has major risk due to the fact that ferrets love to bite. there is some research looking into utilizing guinea pigs as hosts.
Hope that will give you some ideas : )
2007-01-25 10:06:01 · answer #5 · answered by JL 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
biology topicsenior seminar
2016-01-26 06:41:11 · answer #6 · answered by Doreen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rate of extinction...I've read that species are becoming extinct today at a rate that rivals that of the time when dinosaurs became extinct due to the asteroid impact.
2007-01-25 09:54:51 · answer #7 · answered by Ellie S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
biological warfare is pretty interesting and you would be able to find alot of information on it.
2007-01-25 09:34:33 · answer #8 · answered by muggie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋