A look back at some famous discoveries in biology highlights the competitive nature of science, the trophy being priority by publication.

Obesity is the costliest preventable health problem in the United States. Understanding and applying the first law of thermodynamics will help students prevent and treat this all-too-common problem.

The prenatal genetic questionnaire given to every pregnant woman provides a useful basis for teaching genetics concepts.

Students, using information gained since 1859, write letters to Charles Darwin critiquing passages from the first edition of "On the Origin of Species."

The theory that natural selection is the key to adaptive evolution, and the reasoning for his conclusions, were Darwin's contributions to science. However, only half of Americans accept the fact of evolution as true (Gallup, 2008). Walsh contends that there are three reasons that students today find life's existential struggle less apparent.…