Analyzes student responses to an examination question requiring an understanding of the principles of genetic coding and suggests reasons for the misconceptions revealed. (AL)

Describes types of industrial techniques involving biochemical products, specifying the advantages and disadvantages of batch and continuous processes, and contrasting biochemical and chemical engineering. See SE 506 318 for Part I. (AL)

Lists the rules of an instructional game designed to teach pathways of cellular metabolism and illustrates the playing board. (AL)

Discusses the molecular basis of cancer, focusing on genetics of the disease. Indicates that human cancers are initiated by oncogenes (altered versions of normal genes) and that in one case the critical alteration is a single point mutation that changes one amino acid in the protein encoded by the gene. (JN)

The fundamental preclinical and clinical studies of serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine metabolism related to infantile autism are reviewed, and new studies are suggested, as examples of the productive strategies that will illuminate features of the autistic syndrome in the next decade. (Author)

A physician examines five noneducational factors (body chemistry, motor function, vision, allergy and infection, and social influences) which affect the nature of handicapped children. (CL)

The controversy over the safety of saccharin is not resolved, but the discovery of other sugar substitutes may make the problem moot. (JD)