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 PATHFINDERS                
Methuen High School Media Center--Methuen, MA
Pathfinders are pages that offer students selected resources in a variety 
of media on a topic they are researching. They provide a head start for students as
they begin their research project.

Genetics

To find books in the MHS Media Center, open Spectrum (the electronic card catalog) located on the student desktop. Enter the topic you want to search in the keyword search box.  You might try searching under genetics, DNA, genetic engineering.

Some titles we have are:

576.5
SCH		 Schacter, Bernice. Genetics in the News. New York: Chelsea House, 2007.
576.5
KID		 Kidd, J.S. and Ainslie, Sholto. New Genetics: the Study of Lifelines.  New York: Chelsea House, 2006. Books
577
SMI		 Smith, Gina. The Genomics Age: How DNA Technology Is Transforming the Way We Live and Who We Are. New York: American Management Assoc., 2005.
616.071
KUP		 Kupperberg, Paul. How Do We Know the Nature of Disease. New York:Rosen, 2005.
REF
570
ENC		 Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (13 vols.) New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2004.
REF
576.5
ENC		 Ness, Bryan D. Encyclopedia of Genetics.(2 vols.) Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2004.
REF
616.042
WYN		 Wynbrandt, James and Ludman, Mark D. The Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders and Birth Defects. New York: Facts on File, 2007.


SELECTED WEB SITES -- Recommended by Ms. Kravitz

Learn.Genetics - Genetic Science Learning Center - University of Utah
 http://learn.genetics.utah.edu

Gel Electrophoresis Virtual Lab - University of Utah
 http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/labs/gel/

Gene Almanac - Dolan DNA Learning Center
 http://www.dnalc.org/ddnalc/resources/electrophoresis.html

Sickle Cell Anemia - National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
 http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/Sca/SCA_WhatIs.html

 Sickle Cell Anemia - Medline Plus
 http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/sicklecellanemia.html

Sickle Cell Disease - Genetics Home Reference - U.S. National Library of Medicine
 http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition=sicklecelldisease

 

ONLINE RESOURCES

Infotrac -- contains databases of magazine articles, a biography resource, and health and business references.  Try Reference Center Gold, Expanded Academic ASAP, and Biography Resource Center.

bigchalk eLibrary -- online reference center including books, magazines, newspapers, pictures, maps, and  TV transcripts.

Massachusetts Newsstand -- newspaper articles from the Boston Globe (1980 - current), Boston Herald (1991 - current), and ten other Massachusetts newspapers.

Grolier Online -- 2 electronic encyclopedias-- New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.  Articles in these encyclopedias link you to other articles and also to relevant web sites where you can find more information on your topic.

REMOTE ACCESS

These databases are also available from home. You can gain access to these resources from 
home by going to the Answers...To Go! web page made available from the 
Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System:

http://www.nmrls.org/answers/dbmvlc.html

and enter your public library card number (from Methuen or any MVLC member 
library) where you are prompted for a patron or user number.

CITING SOURCES

Using these links indicates the user is leaving 
the district server and that linked material
is not necessarily approved by the district.

Edited by Media Staff
04/14/09
Date last edited
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