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    Deme 2.0
    This workbook simulates the population genetics of a single gene with two alleles. It can simultaneously model up to three local populations, which may differ in their selection coefficients.

    Keywords: population geneticsGenetic DriftNatural Selection

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    Mendelian Genetics, Probability, Pedigree, and Chi-Squared Statistics
    A lesson that requires students to work through a series of questions pertaining to the genetics of sickle cell disease and its relationship to malaria.

    Keywords: geneticsResources @ HHMI - BioInteractiveScientific ProcessStatistics and Mathmendelian inheritance

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    Evolution Through Natural Selection
    This Excel workbook simulates the population genetics of a single gene with two alleles, allowing the user to set the initial allele frequencies and enter parameters for a variety of different...

    Keywords: population geneticsNatural Selection

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    Finding Selection in All the Right Places
    Lab introducing students to evolutionary genetics using bioinformatics and biocuration, published as GSA Learning Resource

    Keywords: geneticsbioinformaticssequencingNIBLSE

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    What the Mendel
    Students practice hypothesis testing using Mendelian genetics for monohybrid and dihybrid crosses. Both corn and Wisconsin Fast Plants are employed.

    Keywords: geneticsplantsmendelian inheritancephenotypecotelydoncornWisconsin fast plants

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    The Ames Test
    Introduction to the Ames Test, published as GSA Learning Resource

    Keywords: geneticsNIBLSEDNAames testassay

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    A Structured Inquiry Approach to Cotyledon Phenotyping
    In this lab, students will work with messy data to try to answer the question “How do plants inherit cotyledon color?”

    Keywords: geneticsplantsphenotypecotelydon

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    A Structured Inquiry Approach to Cotyledon Phenotyping
    In this lab, students will work with messy data to try to answer the question “How do plants inherit cotyledon color?”

    Keywords: geneticsplantsphenotypecotelydon

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    Behavioral Genetics: Investigating the genes of a complex phenotype in fruit flies
    Introductory genetics laboratory published as GSA Learning Resource

    Keywords: behaviorbioinformaticsNIBLSEdrosophilagenetic basisfruit fliesmodel organism

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    Cancer Genetics and an Interview with a Deaf Biomedical Researcher
    In this lesson, learners will learn about cancer genetics and understand and interpret graphs showing quantitative trait locus (QTL) data, survivor curve data, and other genetics data. Then,...

    Keywords: graph interpretationfmnDeaf EducationBioGraphIrepresentation in STEMBioGraphI graph InterpretationDeaf representation in STEM

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    Operon
    This Excel workbook models lac operon function in a partial diploid E. coli. The user chooses the bacterial genotype and the sugars present in the surrounding medium: the workbook then determines...

    Keywords: Lac OperonE. coli

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    GeoPhyl
    This Excel workbook allows students to explore evolution over space and time using published data on the invasive plant Tamarix (salt cedar).

    Keywords: Invasive SpeciesTamarixsalt cedarpermutation testrandom geographic distribution

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    Genetic Code
    This Excel workbook allows the user to recreate the steps in breaking the genetic code. The user enters the sequence of repetitive synthetic mRNA strands, which are translated in vitro to produce...

    Keywords: mRNAgenetic code

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    ESS: Evolutionary Stable Strategies Game Theory Module
    This Excel workbook illustrates a number of ESS examples. Each example allows the user to manipulate the initial population for each strategy and the fitness payoffs and costs for each strategy.

    Keywords: population geneticsfitnessgame theorySequence alignmentevolutionary stable strategies

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    Databases: A Study of Influenza
    This lesson introduces the student to the Influenza Research Database. Students will select Influenza genome sequences to see how they are related. Students tests hypotheses about evolutionary...

    Keywords: Bioinformatics EducationBioinformatics and Genomicsmolecular evolutionInfluenza

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    REMNet Tutorial, R Part 5: Normalizing Microbiome Data in R 5.2.19
    Video on normalizing microbiome data from the Research Experiences in Microbiomes Network

    Keywords: geneticsstatisticsdata analysisgraphingRStudioVideoexperimental designR programming languagemicrobiomesstudent researchinterdisciplinary educationlimnologyeco-informaticsresearch in the classroomtidyverseWorking with datasetsREMNet

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    Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium: a swirl resource
    Students will use swirl to understand Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. The lesson starts with observed numbers of individuals for each genotype, and students will work through a number of steps to...

    Keywords: Hardy-Weinbergpopulation geneticsEvolutionevolutionary ecologyR programming languageSwirl

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    Polyploidapalooza: Exploring the diversity and evolution of polyploid plants and animals
    This series of modules explores the complex world of polyploidy, including species formation, cell division, evolution, conservation, and economic importance. We focus on polyploidy across the...

    Keywords: Evolutionconservationnatural historyCell DivisionhybridizationPolyploidygenome duplicationallopolyploidyautopolyploidy

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    Linkage Analysis
    This Excel workbook simulates a linkage analysis problem with up to four alleles. Based on the offspring produced by a multihybrid testcross, the user builds a model of the gene order,...

    Keywords: recombinationlinkage analysis

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    Developmental Allometry: Scaling in Growth
    This Excel workbook illustrates a number of allometric equations in animal growth. The workbook also calculates an allometric equation with graphical output for data entered by the user.

    Keywords: allometrybrain developmentSkeletal Systemmetabolic rate

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