Fall 2009:
Mutants
at Kenyon
BIOL 103 Biology in Science Fiction
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Learn biology through science fiction books and films.
Apply quantitative reasoning to urgent problems in biology.
Confront the Mutants before they destroy Earth.
Prof. Joan Slonczewski
Syllabus 2009
Bio Sci Fi Wiki
Student Projects
Book List
Are Mutants for real? How do they reproduce --
and avoid self-destruction? (
Time Machine, Star Trek
)
How do Mutants evolve? Could Mutant humans evolve into a new species? (Vonnegut's
Galapagos
)
How do Mutants adapt to a changing planet? Can Mutants help our planet survive?
(
Dune; A Door into Ocean
)
How does genetics create us--and Mutants?
Could genetics make us immortal?
(
Jurassic Park
;
A Door into Ocean
)
Could Mutants destroy us from within--or transform us?
(
Brain Plague
)
BIOL 103 Student Projects:
QR
Whales
by Lainey McFarlane and Molly Papows
The Planet Ralinius
by Brian Cannon '05
Cows in Space
by Rosey Karr '05
QR
Biological Warfare
by Morgan Scudder-Davis and Peter Moore
QR
Planetary Custodian
by Liesel Schmidt and Sam Quest-Neubert
Modern Zlerin
by Ellen Schuler '06
Artificial Intelligence
, by Atul Varma '00
Invasion from Zeerocks
by Melissa Morris '02
Biosphere II
by Diana Carroll '04 and Erin Walker '02
The Yumbrabaul
by Amber Poirier-Slocum '02 and Tim Lloyd '02
Superfund
by Karen Danis '02
Seed Banks
by Diann Benti '04
CY
by Whitney Bratton '06
The Earth--After Hybridization
by Ginger Marshall '04
The Secrets of the Seaswallower
, by Greg Ferrell '98
Ellie and Oscar's Trip
, by Sibel Algon '98 and Vanessa Brown '98
The Planet Altoid
, by Drew Dinsmore '01 and Brendan Wilson-Barthes '99