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Re: [HAPS-L] EDU-SNIPPETS again
On Jan 18, 2006, at 4:42 PM, clifford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi Richard,
Edit as needed.
I use the analogy of the walls and floors of a building as a comparison to the compartmentalization of the endomembrane system of a cell. I ask the class to imagine one big open space of the Science Building where we are holding class. How many different activities could go on at the same time in isolation without the walls and floors. Not many.
Craig Clifford
Professor of Biology
Northeastern State University
Tahlequah, OK
Permission to use granted.
to visualize this system, I suggest to the students to think of lava lamps - back and forth melding of vesicles; helps in understanding significance of common p-lipid membrane, ...
Dr. Harold J. Grau
Associate Professor of Biology
Christopher Newport University