Module 1: Radiation
Module 2: Radiation Damage in Living Organisms
Module 3: Radiation Countermeasures
Module 4: Application to Life on Earth: Radiation as a Tool

Module Outlines

The files below provide an outline of the segments within the Lesson Modules.

• 1a. Electromagnetic spectrum
• 1b. What is radiation?
• 1c. Space radiation
• 2 Biological Effects - Specific Research Areas
      
• 2A Effects on the Central Nervous System
      
• 2B Degenerative Tissue Damage
      
• 2C Genetics – phenotypic observations: Plants
      
• 2D Genetics – phenotypic observations: Yeast
      
• 2E Genetics – phenotypic observations: Drosophila
      
• 2F. Effects of radiation on model organisms' DNA
      
• 2G. Computational modeling of DNA damage
• 3. Radiation countermeasures
• 4. Applications to life on Earth