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    Enzyme Kinetics: How Quickly Can Acetylcholinesterase Break Up Your Thoughts?
    This module contains exercises designed to help upper-level cell biology students understand the common graphical methods used to evaluate enzyme activity and to see the impact of inhibitors on...
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    The Stomata Lab. What the past can tell us about our future - using fossil and modern plants to model atmospheric carbon dioxide
    Students will develop a mathematical model of the relationship between atmospheric CO2 and the number of stomata on a leaf (Stomata Index). They will evaluate the model graphically, statistically,...
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    Osmosis: Determination of the rate of osmosis and the isotonic concentration
    This module contains exercises designed to help students understand how solute concentrations affect the direction and rate of osmosis. Students are given different scenarios to predict the...
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    Cell Cycle and Mitosis
    This module introduces activities that allow students to walk through the cell cycle and mitotic cell division processes. As part of the activities, students learn about and apply knowledge of...
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    RAT ATTACK! Population growth
    This module contains exercises focused on the use and interpretation of density independent and density dependent population growth models. Students build logistic and exponential growth models in...
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    Hidden Markov Model
    Hidden Markov models are a set of mathematical tools that can be used to draw inferences about genomic and evolutionary processes.
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    Using the Hardy-Weinberg Equations: Quantifying Natural Selection and Allele Frequencies
    This module contains exercises designed to walk students through a real-world example of the coevolution of fruit color and primate frugivore color vision. Students will apply the Hardy-Weinberg...
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    Discrete Math Modeling with Biological Applications (Course Materials)
    These are the materials for Math 214 offered at Rhodes College.
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    Genome Solver: Complete Set of Lessons
    The Genome Solver Project began as a way to teach faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics - no coding or scripting. These Lessons also work well in the undergraduate classroom, culminating...
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    Using computational molecular modeling software to demonstrate how DNA mutations cause phenotypes
    This lesson is a five-week series of laboratory activities designed to help students transition from applying lower order thinking skills to the central dogma to applying higher-order thinking skills.
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    Circle Train Problem TCM 2018_Hernandez.pdf - Google Drive
    In this math modeling lesson, students build mathematical models for the horizontal and vertical position of a train moving along a circular track. The math topics includes transformations of...
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    Behavioral Genetics: Investigating the genes of a complex phenotype in fruit flies
    Introductory genetics laboratory published as GSA Learning Resource
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    Sequence Similarity: Introducing Biological Databases to Community College Biology Students
    This laboratory module, published on CourseSource, leads introductory biology students in the exploration of a basic set of bioinformatics concepts and tools.
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    Developing a phylogram from computational resources.
    This laboratory module, published on CourseSource, leads introductory biology students in the exploration of a basic set of bioinformatics concepts and tools.
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    Sequence Similarity: An inquiry based and "under the hood" approach for incorporating molecular sequence alignment in introductory undergraduate biology courses
    This laboratory module, published on CourseSource, leads introductory biology students in the exploration of a basic set of bioinformatics concepts and tools.
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    Quantifying Bacterial Growth in the Guts and Hemolymph of Fruit Flies: Mathematical Modeling and Data Interpolation/Extrapolation
    In this activity, students will analyze raw data obtained from an experiment that explores the effect of overexpressing the Ssk protein in order to strengthen the intestinal barrier and prevent...
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    Circle Train Math Modeling Task
    This math modeling task is appropriate for high school Precalculus students. The students use their knowledge of transformations of trigonometric functions to create models for horizontal and...
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    Fitzhugh-Nagumo Model
    The FitzHugh–Nagumo model describes a prototype of an excitable system (e.g., a neuron).
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    Navigating Bacterial Changes in Aging Organisms: Graphs, Patterns, and Models
    Aging is an incredibly important area of research, and recent biological advances implicate the intestines in aging pathologies. Given that the gut harbors an immense amount of an organism’s...
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