How to teach environmental relevance to elementary students using a terrarium as a teaching aid. Includes suggestions for terrarium construction and experiments. (RB)

Need for an administrative structure encouraging the flow of information from health science schools to the Center. (IR)

Reports the addition of new courses in a community college made possible with the acquisition of electron microscopic equipment. (GB)

This article focuses on the variety of plants that reproduce by asexual reproduction, a process known as clonal growth. Processes and advantages are described. (SA)

Discusses the existence of spirals in nature in general, supplying many examples, and explains how a particular organism, Phycomyces, accomplishes this feat. (GA)

Suggested specifications for microscopes for various applications are given. A discussion of the ways of meeting these specifications in practice is illustrated by current models from British and foreign manufacturers. (BB)

Summarizes latest results of AIBS membership census for persons in the biological sciences. Areas of response were disciplinary specialty, employment, and salary. Tables include salaries for males and females by age bracket and by degree (bachelor's, master's, and doctor's). (CS)

Describes an activity on worms that investigates their anatomy and habitat and reactions to various environments. (Contains 12 references.) (YDS)

Investigates differences across UK universities in 1993 life-sciences students' degree performance using individual-level data from the universities' Statistical Record. Analyzes differences across universities by specifying and estimating a subject-specific production function. Even after including a wide range of controls for the quality of…

Summarizes recent findings that help in understanding how evolution has brought about the diversity of plant life that presently exists. Discusses basic concepts of evolution, diversity and classification, the three-line hypothesis of plant evolution, the origin of fungi, and the geologic time table. Included are 31 references. (CW)

Discusses how handedness at one level may give rise to handedness at another. Presents examples from plants and animals, molecules, atoms, to elementary particles. Examines the chiral symmetry in life and when it starts. (YP)