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Dr. Mahlon Hoagland, Project Scientific Leader
Dr. Mahlon Hoagland received his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1948
and served on its faculty for 18 years. He was subsequently Director of the
Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research for 15 years. His main
scientific contributions were in the area of protein biosynthesis, having
discovered the mechanism of amino acid activation and, with P.C. Zamecnik,
transfer RNA. He authored some 70 scientific papers, 5 books for the public
(2 of which won the American Medical Writers Award) He won the Franklin
Medal in 1976, was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and
ended his career as Visiting Professor of Biochemistry at Dartmouth Medical
School

Bert Dodson, Graphics and Presentation
Bert Dodson is a painter, teacher, author and illustrator. He has illustrated
over 80 books for children. He has authored two books on drawing: Keys to
Drawing (North Light, 1985), and Keys to Drawing with Imagination (North
Light, 2006). In the 1980s he created the political comic strip, Nuke, which
was published in two volumes, as Nuke; A Book of Cartoons (McFarland and
Company, Jeffersonville, NC, 1988), and Nuke II; Another Book of Cartoons
(1990). He co-authored, with the biologist, Mahlon Hoagland, The Way Life
Works (Times Books, 1995), and Intimate Strangers; Unseen Life on Earth
(ASM Press, 1999). He was animation designer for the four part PBS
television series, Intimate Strangers (1998). He regularly exhibits his
watercolors and drawings. For several years he has been illustrating Opera
Stories for Children, a series commissioned by The New York Metropolitan
Opera.
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Judith Hoagland Hauck, Writing and Education
Judith was a teacher of Special Education for 12 years, and has been a
Developmental Editor of biology, cell biology, statistics, environmental
science, astronomy, physics, chemistry and organic chemistry textbooks for
the last 19 years.
She is a co-author with Mahlon Hoagland and Bert Dodson of the
textbook Exploring the Way Life Works. Judith received her
undergraduate degree in French and Zoology from Mount Holyoke
College, and her MAT from Harvard Graduate School of Education.
She also studied in the Critical and Creative Thinking in Science and
Technology CAGS program at University of Massachusetts, Boston.




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Book 6
COMMUNITYE PLURIBUS UNUM



Emergence
The Emergence of Higher-Level Behavior
From One-Celled to Many-Celled Creatures
Embryo DevelopmentFrom One Cell to Many
Organizing a BodyPart I
Cell Signaling
Organizing a BodyPart II
Organizing a BodyPart III
Genes as Switches
Organizing a BodyPart IV
How Cells Differentiate
Positional Signals
Cell Death
Organizing a BodyPart V
Roots
How a cell
diversifies into
communities of
specialized cells,
organs, system
feedback loops, and
how individuals
interact and
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. Next, they divide into four cells,
instead of two. ese are sperm or egs,
each carrying half of the parent`s genes.
(For more on mixing in sex cells, see
Book 7, pages 24 and 25).
Part 6
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Cluster of cells in the
blastula. (See p. 11)
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Part 12
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Part 15
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All the Books in This Series
To be found at TeachDNA.com

1
Patterns - An Overview of the Basic
Concepts of Biology
The unity that underlies diversity. Science as an
organized, accessible manifestation of human
curiosity
A panorama of sixteen of lifes key features
2
Energy - Light to Life
How living creatures transform energy, and how
energy flows through organisms and through
communities
3
DNA The Cells Library of Information
How the four-letter language of DNA spells out
instructions for building millions of life forms


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Proteins - Building the Machinery that Builds
Life
How DNAs Instructions are transcribed into
molecules of RNA and then translated into proteins
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Feedback - Signaling, Sensing, Reacting
Homeostasis: how cells, organisms and communities
regulate their internal environments
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Community - E Pluribus Unum
How a cell diversifies into communities of specialized
cells, organs, system feedback loops, and how
individuals interact and organize
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Evolution The Source of Endless Variety
How the river of DNA information flows across
generations, and how the information in DNA is sifted
and sorted by cells and selected by environments
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