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    Organic Chemistry

    Module
      Page
      Type

    Aspirin Adventures
      Aspirin Intrigue
      reading
      Aspirin Quiz
      paper activity
      Build Your Own Molecule
      simulation activity
      A Festival of Analgesics
      reading
      Hoffmann, We Have a Problem
      reading
      Real or Phony?
      lab activity
      Timeline of Discovery
      reading

    Magic Bullets: Chemistry vs. Cancer
      Cancer Chemotherapy:
      A Chemical Needle in a Haystack
      reading
      Cancer Chemotherapy: A Timeline
      reading
      The Gene Factor—Cracking the Code: Mutations
      paper activity
      The Gene Factor—Cracking the Code: A Simulation
      paper activity
      The Gene Factor—Gene BRCA1
      reading
      The Gene Factor—Gene p53
      reading
      The Gene Factor—Genes and Cancer
      reading
      The Gene Factor—Genetics: A Timeline
      reading
      The Gene Factor—Isolating DNA
      lab activity
      The Gene Factor—Mary-Claire King: Prevention Pioneer
      reading
      George Hitchings: Pharmaceutical Achiever
      reading
      Gertrude Belle Elion: a Lifeline
      reading
      Methods of Treatment: Choosing a Weapon
      reading
      Paul Ehrlich: Pharmaceutical Achiever
      reading
      You Become What You Eat—
      Antioxidants and the Hunt for Free Radicals
      reading
      You Become What You Eat—Reading Food Labels
      paper activity

    Antibiotics in Action
      Brewing for Millennia: Fermentation in History
      reading
      Digging for a Cure
      reading
      Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: Pharmaceutical Achiever
      reading
      Elizabeth Hazen and Rachel Fuller Brown:
      Pharmaceutical Achievers
      reading
      Honey—Yes, UFOs—No
      reading
      Making Aspirin (also in Aspirin Adventures)
      lab activity
      Medicine from Dirt: Isolating Actinomycetes
      lab activity
      Mold is for Wimps: Antibiotics from Big Scary Reptiles
      reading
      Observing Cells: Using Stains
      lab activity


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