biology

Assignment 1

Topic: foods that contain carcinogens and how they can cause cancer. (This idea stems from a July 2023 report that indicates that low calorie sweetener, aspartame, can now be classified as a carcinogen)

For this assignment, you will create an annotated bibliography for 3 of the 5 articles you plan to use in preparing your final presentation.

Note that all five of the articles you select must be current (published within the past five years). A minimum of 3 articles must be from scholarly journals while the remaining 2 can be from lay publications such as reputable magazines and newspapers like  Time, Newsweek, Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, Scientific American, Discover, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal.

Requirements:

· Your annotation (article summary and evaluation) should indicate that you read and understood each article.

· Each annotation should be roughly ½ page in length (about six or seven well-developed and well-written sentences).

· Each annotation should include first a summary of the article and then your evaluation of it in terms of how it relates to your topic and what you found most interesting, provocative, or controversial.

Assignment 2

Create a PowerPoint presentation on the topic different foods that contain carcinogens and how they can cause cancer. (This idea stems from a July 2023 report that indicates that low calorie sweetener, aspartame, can now be classified as a carcinogen).

Guidelines

· Approximately 20 content slides (no fewer than 15)

· Supportive images if appropriate

· Annotated bibliography slides (include the three previously submitted in assignment 1 and the remainder you chose to use).

· Title Page

· Introduction

· Background Information

· Major Point/Concern

· Response-use Resources/Citations

· Definition or Glossary