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Module 1: Safety and Viruses

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    • 1.1: Lab Safety Contract
      Read over and sign the Laboratory Safety Contract. This document goes over essential practices for lab safety.
    • 1.2: Viruses Lab
      A virus is not considered a living organism as it only contains DNA surrounded by a protein coat. However, viruses are serious infectious agents causes conditions such as AIDS, chicken pox, and herpes. Viruses must have a live host cell to reproduce. In this lab, you will learn about the properties and characteristics of viruses as well as explain how viruses are spread through a population by contact of bodily fluids
    • 1.3: Dolphin Case Study
      In July 2013, stranding teams (such as the Virginia Aquarium’s Stranding Response team) from New York to North Carolina started noticing a large amount of dolphin strandings. Using your computer and the Internet, research dolphin strandings. Then, answer the questions based on your research findings.


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