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    Antigen presentation and cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs): elucidating a common roadblock for students
    Active learning resource for pre-Nursing anatomy and physiology lecture explaining antigen presentation to CTLs and how the CTLs recognize and destroy the pathogen using Biointeractive animations...

    Keywords: Resources @ HHMI - BioInteractiveimmune systemAnatomy & PhysiologyCell communication

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    Data Analysis and Cancer
    This is a flipped classroom approach, students will learn the basic content about cell-signaling, p53, and transcription factors before class. During class students will focus on data analysis...

    Keywords: Resources @ HHMI - BioInteractiveBiochemistrymolecular biologydata interpretationBiological Data Analysiscell cyclemacromoleculesGenetic diseaseCell signaling

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    Regulación de expresión génica y adipogénesis por PPAR-γ
    En ésta actividad de dibujo / coloreado los estudiantes aprenderán sobre los diferentes componentes involucrados en la regulación de la activación de PPAR-γ, un factor de transcripción que juega un...

    Keywords: videosResources @ HHMI - BioInteractiveGeneral biology educationgene expressionregulationtranslation into spanishtranscriptional regulationrepressorEspañol

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    Seed Dispersal in Tropical Forests - implementation at a small, Primarily Undergraduate Institution
    In this activity, students use data from published studies to understand patterns of seed dispersal and apply these ideas to the design of a conservation area.

    Keywords: ecologyResources @ HHMI - BioInteractivecommunityplantsdiversityScientific Process

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    Regulation of Sex Determination
    This activity accompanies the HHMI BioInteractive module Sex Verification of Athletes (​https://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/testing-athletes​). It provides students with exercises to explore the...
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    Examining human impacts on tusk evolution in elephants using authentic research data
    In this activity students explore and analyze real, authentic research data paired with HHMI’s “Selection for Tuskless Elephants” video in a hands-on investigation of human impacts on elephant...
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    The Hidden Kingdom: Island Biogeography with Fungi
    In this activity, students will explore a dataset of fungi dispersal capabilities and colonizing success to test the predictions of island biogeography theory.

    Keywords: Island biogeographyfungi

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    Seed Dispersal in Tropical Forests: Learning How Plants Move Around
    This module focuses on the dispersal of seeds from trees in fragmented tropical forests. Students use data from published studies to understand patterns of seed dispersal and apply these ideas to...

    Keywords: ecologyResources @ HHMI - BioInteractivecommunityplantsdiversityScientific Process

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    Coral Reefs in Hot Water
    Students analyze sea surface temperature (SST) data from NOAA to predict coral bleaching at four locations in the Bahamas. They then compare their predictions to authentic research collected about...

    Keywords: ecologyBiodiversityclimateScientific ProcessStatistics and Mathecosystemsearth and environmenthuman impacts

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    Evolution in Darwin's Finches: Using Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection postulates to evaluate evidence of evolution
    Students evaluate evidence for evolution of Darwin's finches using authentic research data sets collected by Peter and Rosemary Grant.
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    Instructor Guide: Integrating Project Leadership, Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Google Tools to Understand Regulation of Gene Expression with the Lac Operon and Lactase Gene
    Scientific leadership and current artificial intelligence (AI) skills are important skills to be included in the course curriculum. Together or individually, these skills can enhance knowledge,...

    Keywords: Resources @ HHMI - BioInteractivebiologymolecular biologygenomicsArtificial Intelligencegene expressionleadershipgroup worklactosegoogle toolsSeniorPhET SimulationLactase

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    Is bigger always better? An investigation on the effect of drought on different sizes of trees
    This data set was compiled from worldwide data to examine the effects of drought on trees. Included in the dataset are measurements of growth and mortality as they relate to the size category of...

    Keywords: statisticsforest ecologydata analysisclimate changeANOVAGraphing Functionsforest health

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    Sickle Cell Disease Case Study
    A short film explores the evolutionary connection between an infectious disease, malaria, and a genetic condition, sickle cell anemia. The animation explores the genetic causes and biological...

    Keywords: HHMI BioInteractive

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    Regulation of Gene Expression and Adipogenesis by PPAR-γ
    Students learn about transcriptional regulation of PPAR-γ, an important controller of adipose tissue stores and energy metabolism through a drawing/coloring activity of the different components...

    Keywords: gene expressionsmall group worktranscriptional regulationadipose tissuefat metabolismrepressor

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    Examining human impacts on tusk evolution in elephants using authentic research data using Serenity
    In this activity students explore and analyze real, authentic research data paired with HHMI’s “Selection for Tuskless Elephants” video in a hands-on investigation of human impacts on elephant...
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    Electrical and chemical communication in the nervous system
    This activity guides students through an online tutorial to examine the electrical and chemical communication of neurons.

    Keywords: introductory biologyneurobiologyanatomy and physiologyCell communication

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    Investigating Biomes with BiomeViewer
    This interactive classroom activity facilitates student learning about biodiversity through an investigation of biomes (what they are, how they're defined, their global distribution) using a free...

    Keywords: BiodiversityEcosystem EcologyBiomeViewerbiomes

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    Modeling Trophic Interactions in Rice Agriculture: A Jigsaw Approach
    Students explore four different issues related to trophic interactions that affect modern rice agriculture practices and consider relationships between these issues using Lotka and Volterra...

    Keywords: mathematical modelLotka-Volterrajigsawfood chaintrophic cascadespredator-prey interactionsfood web

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    Understanding Trophic Interactions in Rice Agriculture: A Jigsaw Approach
    Students explore four different issues related to trophic interactions that affect modern rice agriculture practices and consider relationships between these issues.

    Keywords: jigsawfood chaintrophic cascadesfood web

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    Regulation Across Scales: Data Points Icebreaker Jigsaw
    Students examine regulation at cellular, physiological, and ecological scales in a data-based jigsaw to explore how double-negative logic operates across biological systems. This was used as a...

    Keywords: pathwaysgene regulationtrophic cascadesregulationcross-scalecholesterol synthesisLac OperonYellowstone

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