Assignment: Genetic Engineering

Class Name: Biology
Teacher: TBA

North Library Resource List

Print materials in the North Library

What?

Task Definition
1. What is my research question?
2. What do I already know?
3. What information do I need?

Where?

Search Plan
1. What type of information do I need? For example: general, in depth, current, historical, biographical, issue oriented, other?
2. Review suggested resources, circle ones that fit, prioritize your list.
3. Evaluate resources for significance, accuracy, currency, authority.

Sample Book List
306.461 Gen Genetics and Society
575.1 Ede Genetics and Heredity
575.102 Gon TheCcartoon Guide to Genetics
576.5 Kid Life Lines: the story of the new genetics
641.3 Mar High-Tech Harvest: A look at genetically engineered food
660.6 Bio Biotechnology
660.65 Gen Genetic Engineering: Opposing Viewpoints

How?

Location & Access
1. Jot down rich words that relate to your topic.
2. Check your words, change your words if your search fails.
3. Focus your search by looking for relationships between elements in your research question.

Words to try for keyword or SUBJECT searching in the North Library catalog.

The Dewey decimal system puts many of the genetic type books in the numbers 574, 575, and 576. You can browse the shelves in this area for many books on genetics.

GENETICS [main SUBJECT HEADING for most titles in North Library]
GENETIC ENGINEERING
GENETIC ENGINEERING--INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
GENETIC ENGINEERING--SOCIAL ASPECTS
GENETICS--MORAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS
GENETIC ENGINEERING--FOOD
GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS
BIOENGINEERED FOODS
BIOTECHNOLOGY
AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
CLONING
Gene transfer
Gene therapy
Transgenetic animals
Genetic research
Genetic research industry
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tem cells

 

 

 

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