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Davey,Phoenix Public Schools, Phoenix, AZ 85012 TURTOX RegionVIII: Tamsen Knowlton Meyer, Broomfield Junior High School, Broomfield, Chicago,Illinois 60620 CO 80020 RegionIX: Phillip A. Poppleton,Enumclaw High School, Enumclaw, WA 98022 * UNITRON INSTRUMENTS, INC. RegionX: David R. Stronck,University of Victoria,Victoria, B.C., Canada V8W 2Y2 101 CrosswaysPark West Woodbury,New York 11797 Committee Chairpersons HonoraryMembership Selection: Jerry Resnick, Sheepshead Bay HighSchool, Brooklyn,NY 11235 * WARD'S NATURAL SCIENCE EvolutionEducation: William V. Mayer,BSCS, 833 W.South Boulder Rd., Louis- ESTABLISHMENT, INC. ville,CO 80027 Rochester, New York 14603 National Convention:Manert Kennedy, BSCS, 833 W. South Boulder Rd., Louisville,CO 80027 'Asterisks designate Charter Sustaining Members DetroitArrangements: LeMoine Motz, Oakland Schools, Pontiac, MI 48054 Contents Volume 44, Number 5, May 1982 AN OVERTURE RobertE. Yager 263 The MajorPurpose of Pre-College Science ARTICLES L. R. Krupkaand A.M.Vener 264 Treatmentof Agingin SecondarySchool BiologyTextbooks: A NeglectedPhenomenon CharlesR. Cobleand PaulB. Hounshell 270 Teacher-MadeScience Games DavidBardell 278 BacterialPhotosynthesis Without Chlorophyll RiversSingleton, Jr. 280 TeachingBioethics.from an Interdisciplinary and D. HeywardBrock Perspective SalvatoreTocci 286 ProjectAdvance Biology: An Alternativeto AdvancedPlacement Biology RitaDunn, David P. Cavanaugh, 291 HemisphericPreference: The Newest BettyM. Eberle, and RobertZenhausern Elementof LearningStyle PERSPECTIVES FrancesF. Ekern,Michael Kamrin, Downloaded from http://online.ucpress.edu/abt/article-pdf/44/5/255/39702/4447499.pdf by guest on 29 September 2021 L.R.Krupka, and AndrewMcClary 295 Biasin the ScienceClassroom COMPUTER CENTER TheodoreJ. Crovello 298 Computersin BiologicalEducation: The FutureIs Now! PROJECTOR CENTER CharlesR. Barman 300 PictorialRiddles-Transparency Master BIOLOGY TODAY MauraC. FRannery 303 Biologyin the News WayneA. Moyer 306 HighSchool Student'sExperiment Goes IntoSpace HOW-TO-DO-IT ThomasF. Danieland TimothyJohns 308 A Laboratoryon Chemotaxonomy:The Systematic Distributionof Betalains RussellF. Wells 311 SimpleChromosome Models G.W.Kennemer 312 Color-CodedDissections: An Aidto Communication in the BiologyLaboratory 314 AUDIOVISUAL REVIEWS 315 BOOK REVIEWS COVER: Photographtaken over 25 years ago by Gene Christensenof Reno, Nevadaof an Indianwoman, then be- tween 90 and 100 yearsof age. The womanwas paid 50 cents to pose for the photographer.For more informationon aging,see "Treatmentof Agingin SecondarySchool BiologyTextbooks: A NeglectedPhenomenon" on pages 264-269 of thisissue. American Biology Teacher, (ISSN 0002 7685) official journal of NABT, is published monthly except June, July, and August. Institutionalsubscriptions are $30 a year in the United States, Canada, and Mexico; overseas subscriptionsare $32 a year. 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Biological Sciences Stanford University "Appropriate Uses of Microcomputers "Hope, Despair, Wisdom, and Folly: in Biology Education" Dr. Ehrlich is the first Promoting Health Literacy in Anti- holder of the Bing Pro- John Jungck, Beloit College, WI science Society" fessorship in Population William H. Carlyon Studies, endowed in 1976 by gifts from the "Using Computers to Teach Evolutionary Theory" Director, Department of Bing Fund, Inc. of LosAngeles. Widely known Health Education as a lecturer and author of several major Frank Price, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY American Medical