Web Activities
UNIT 3: HOMEOSTASIS
Unit 3– Performance Task and Review
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Question
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Performance Task
Analysis
i. Compare your results with available standards, either
determined by your group or from another source, such as the Internet.
Describe the comparison.
The
Effects of Caffeine on Plants
The Effects of Caffeine on Plants gives a brief summary of caffeine’s
cellular effects, and explains how this relates to plant cells.
Caffeine
Caffeine provides good general information on this drug, and discusses
its effects on plants and animals.
Coffee
This slightly wild Web site on coffee details the effects of caffeine
on human physiology, as well as providing some interesting facts on
its key ingredient - caffeine.
Spiders
on Drugs
This article features the now semi-famous photos of webs created by
Spiders on Drugs, and details some of the effects of caffeine on physiology.
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Review
39. In June, 2000, a team of researchers at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and Bell Labs reported that they had created
an electronic circuit based on the cerebral cortex, the brain’s
centre of intelligence. Lauded as the first artificial circuit to mimic
brain activity, it was modelled on the much larger network of natural
neurons and feedback loops in the human brain. Use several sources to
research artificial intelligence or neuromorphic engineering, and find
out how this circuitry works. Search for information in newspapers,
periodicals, CD-ROMs, and on the Internet.
Artificial
Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence is a Web site published for students by the
American Association of Artificial Intelligence. Loads of information
is offered, with news stories, tons of links, and some interactive
activities.
Electronic
Circuit that Mimics the Brain
In 2000, the MIT press office released the news that researchers had
developed an Electronic Circuit that Mimics the Brain. Read the breaking
story here.
When
will computer hardware match the human brain?
When will computer hardware match the human brain? asks this journal
article. The conclusion: New developments in hardware technology should
allow researchers to build robotic brains that match our own in a
couple of decades.
Electronic
Circuit Replicates Brain Activity
Electronic Circuit Replicates Brain Activity is an article explaining
MIT's groundbreaking research. Several related links are listed at
the bottom of the page.
Artificial
Brains
Artificial Brains features some of the latest and greatest artificial
intelligence research in the race to create a robotic human brain.
