Los cursos de Biología B.S.C.S. (Biological Sciences Curriculum Study).

Se desarrollan los objetivos del BSCS (Biological Sciences Curriculum Study), que surge para dar solución al problema de la enorme expansión de conocimientos y la limitación de tiempo y capacidad de los estudiantes. Se crea en 1958 en el Instituto Americano de Ciencias Biológicas, y en él se exponen los conocimientos y la experiencia de cientos de profesores y biólogos profesionales, con el fin de lograr un conocimiento más racional y significativo de la Biología.

Frieze -- Biological Sciences

Frieze located in front of building. Smith, Hinchman & Grylls, architects. W.B. Wood Co., construction

Isotope techniques in biological sciences : a selected list of references /

This bibliography contains 807 selected references on techniques for the use of radioactive and stable isotopes in biological sciences. These references were taken from the 1948-1956 open literature. A list of the journals from which they were selected and an author index are also included.

Isotope techniques in the biological sciences : a literature search /

Includes indexes.

Utilization of radioisotopes in physical and biological sciences--general topics; a literature search.

At head of title: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.

Radioisotopes in the biological sciences : an annotated bibliography of selected literature /

Includes indexes.

Abstracts of papers presented at the annual meetings, American Institute of Biological Sciences, August 27-29, 1963, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass.

Mode of access: Internet.

Graduate education in biological sciences /

"Report to the Board of Higher Education for its use in developing 'Master Plan--Phase III.'"

Meat through the microscope; applications of chemistry and the biological sciences to some problems of the meat packing industry,

"Lithoprinted."

How to enhance Geobotany in the frame of the renewed Biological Sciences?

In recent decades the importance of structuring sciences such as botany or phytosociology faced a declining attention from the scientific community. This was accompanied by a growing interest in theoretical ecology. For such scenario greatly contributed an hypothetical exhaustion of research topics in these areas, but especially the introduction of new technologies that have provided powerful tools for data analysis. This allowed, for example, to make predictions about the impacts of climate change on species and plant communities and the consequent recognition of theoretical ecology, as one of the most prestigious pieces of current biological sciences. However, theoretical ecology has been facing serious knoledge gaps that greatly compromise their results, putting again the spotligth on structuring sciences. For example there are enourmous gaps in knowledge and data on dispersal, species and communities chorology and abundace, as well as in biological interactions. These data is essential, since they will determine ecological behavior of species. Its omission always limits the understanding and proper execution of the models generated by theoretical ecology. In this conference we will present a review on the gaps in knowledge and data in flora and vegetation fields in order to identify situations where geobotanical knowledge can make their major contribution. Furthermore, we will emphasize the need to reformulate objectives in geobotanical sciences in order to give it the deserved scientific recognition, considering the relationship between different scientific knowledges.

Construction of the Cognitive Dimension of the Scientific Literacy in the Students through the Costa Rican Biological Sciences Olympics

This research recognizes the cognitive contributions to the students participating in the Third Costa Rican Biological Sciences Olympics that will define the advancement and strengthening in the construction of its conceptual dimension in the scientific literacy.  This paper is based, mainly, on qualitative approach techniques (ethnographic design:  case study); however, some data are interpreted through quantitative methodologies (descriptive design with an explanatory and exploratory touch) for the analysis of a sample of 54 high school students, finalists in the category A of the Olympics, through the use of tools such as a documentary study and a survey, in July 2009.  The information generated was analyzed using elements of inferential and descriptive statistics, figures and histograms.  It was proved that there is a better cognitive management in the topics assessed, an increase in the students’ academic performance as the tests are applied, a commitment for the academic update supported by the development of several tasks for previous preparation, curriculum contributions unprecedented based on our sample, a consent to optimize student’s knowledge about Biology, which will allow the application of scientific notions to diversify and renew the knowledge, according to what is established in the principles of scientific literacy.