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September 2011 Issue
The Last Word September 2011
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4. School Hightower attends
6. When traveling across many time zones, people can experience ____
8. A type of light-sensing cell in the eye
10. HIV attacks the ______ system
13. DNA change
14. The daily rhythms that control sleep and many other biological functions
15. HIV jumped to humans from this species
18. The brain senses light and aligns its cycles accordingly through this process _________
20. The body uses external signals like light and dark to set its biological ____
22. Cheap way to ID species
24. The scientific field that focuses on the nervous system, including the brain
25. Studying learning and memory in mice could reveal more about this brain disease
26. Raw fish dish
27. # genes in HIV
28. Creature infected with a virus
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1. HIV sometimes affects the _____
2. HIV emerged in West ______
3. University where Altimus conducts research
5. Abbreviation for the part of the brain that houses the human "master clock"
7. Through natural selection, organisms _______ to their environment
9. A light-sensitive protein found in some nerve cells in the eye
11. Altimus works with these animals in the lab
12. HIV causes this disease
13. Altimus measures brain activity in mice while they navigate through a ____
16. Abnormal sleep patterns can affect learning, memory and ____
17. Individual virus particle
19. Altimus has an uncanny ability to remember these
20. The type of eye cell that lets us see in color
21. "S" in SIV stands for
23. Mutations can make HIV ______ drugs
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