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    Cellular Respiration and pH: blocking the electron transport chain and its effects on the proton gradient, pH, and ATP production
    This module contains exercises designed to help students describe the stages of cellular respiration and quantify the energy molecules produced. Students will predict the region of higher proton...

    Keywords: introductory biologyQuantitative reasoningquantitative biologyinterdisciplarycell functionInterpreting GraphsATPpHCellular RespirationEnergy transformationsElectron flowNIQBC2. Data and GraphsC4. mathematical modelsC1. Numeracyproton gradientelectron transportelectron transport blockersFADH2chemiosmosisATP synthaseNADHproton concentration

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    CYTOSKELETON - Microtubule Dynamics in the Cell Cycle
    This module contains exercises designed to help upper-level cell biology students understand the dynamics of microtubule polymerization and depolymerization within the cell cycle and how cancer...

    Keywords: cell biologyQuantitative reasoningInterdisciplinary STEMInterpreting GraphsCytoskeletonScientific reasoningdimensional analysisNIQBC2. Data and GraphsC6. Quantitative LanguageC1. Numeracy

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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...

    Keywords: introductory biologyQuantitative reasoninginterdisciplinarycell functionOsmosisNIQBC2. Data and GraphsC4. mathematical modelsC6. Quantitative LanguageC1. NumeracyC5. Logic and Algorithms

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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...

    Keywords: Hardy-WeinbergEvolutionintroductory biologyQuantitative reasoninginterdisciplinaryNIQBC2. Data and GraphsC4. mathematical modelsC3. Statistical AnalysisC6. Quantitative LanguageC1. Numeracy

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    RNAseq data analysis using Galaxy
    This is a bioinformatics exercise intended for use in a computer lab setting with life science majors.

    Keywords: LabbioinformaticsNCBImappingUndergraduateworkflowNIBLSEGalaxyRNAseqgene expressionAdvancedExtended ProjectArabidopsisC1. Role of bioinformaticsC2. Computational conceptsC3. Statistical conceptsC5. Data retrievalIncubated at NIBLSEdifferentially expressed genes

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    Bioinformatics / Neuroinformatics
    This module is a computer-based introduction to bioinformatics resources.  This easy-to-adopt module weaves together several important bioinformatic tools so students can grasp how each is used in...

    Keywords: bioinformaticsNIBLSEImageJquantitative trait locusQTL

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    DNA Subway Learning Resources
    DNA Subway is a NIBLSE Recommended resource. This is a collection of learning resources associated with DNA Subway.

    Keywords: phylogeneticsIntroductoryLabbioinformaticsUndergraduateNIBLSEDNA BarcodingDNA sequenceBLASTmultiple sequence alignmentDNA SubwayInstructional SettingAudience LevelAdvancedActivity LengthExtended ProjectC1. Role of bioinformaticsC2. Computational conceptsC4. Bioinformatics toolsC5. Data retrievalC8. Data types

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    Yeti or not: Do they exist?
    Through this 4-part bioinformatics case study, students will be led through the forensic analysis of putative Yeti artifacts based on published findings.

    Keywords: case studybioinformaticsNIBLSEBLAST12S sequencingYeti

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    Bioinformatics: the Power of Computers in Biology – a Practical Guide
    This Practical Guide in the Bringing Bioinformatics into the Classroom series introduces simple bioinformatics approaches for database searching and sequence analysis.

    Keywords: NIBLSEGOBLET

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    Using Undergraduate Molecular Biology Labs to Discover Targets of miRNAs in Humans
    In this lesson, we describe an easily adaptable lab module that can be used in existing undergraduate molecular biology lab courses to conduct authentic scientific research, published in CourseSource

    Keywords: molecular biologybioinformaticsNIBLSEgene regulationmicroRNAsgene expressionCourseSourcemiRNA

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    Bioinformatics: An Interactive Introduction to NCBI
    Modules showing how the NCBI database classifies and organizes information on DNA sequences, evolutionary relationships, and scientific publications. And a module working to identify a nucleotide...

    Keywords: NCBINIBLSEDNABLASTnucleotide sequencing

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    Using DNA Subway to Analyze Sequence Relationships
    This is a bioinformatics exercise using the DNA Subway Blue Line, a user-friendly pipeline of bioinformatics tools, to analyze a collection of mosquito DNA bar-code sequences.

    Keywords: phylogeneticsNIBLSEDNA BarcodingDNA sequenceBLASTmultiple sequence alignmentC1. Role of bioinformaticsC2. Computational conceptsC4. Bioinformatics toolsC5. Data retrievalC8. Data typesIncubated at NIBLSE

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    Wolf Sheep Predation Simulation Exercise
    This resource is an exercise to introduce students to agent-based modeling of biological systems through working with a simple existing model.

    Keywords: simulationecologyIntroductoryNetLogoagent-based modelingagent-based modelLabbioinformaticspredator-preyUndergraduateNIBLSEInstructional SettingAudience LevelActivity LengthLess than 1 hoursimulation cycleC1. Role of bioinformaticsC6. ModelsReviewed at NIBLSEagent based modleing

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    Exploring HIV Evolution
    In this activity you will study aspects of sequence evolution by working with a set of HIV sequence data from 15 different subjects (Markham, et al., 1998). You will first learn about the dataset,...

    Keywords: EvolutionbioinformaticssequencingUndergraduateNIBLSEincubatorsHIVAudience LevelC1. Role of bioinformaticsC4. Bioinformatics toolsRecommended by NIBLSE

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    A Critical Guide to the PDB
    This Critical Guide in the Introduction to Bioinformatics series provides a brief outline of the Protein Data Bank – the PDB – the world’s primary repository of biological macromolecular structures.

    Keywords: NIBLSEGOBLETInstructorResources

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    A Critical Guide to BLAST
    This Critical Guide in the Introduction to Bioinformatics series provides an overview of the BLAST similarity search tool, briefly examining the underlying algorithm and its rise to popularity.

    Keywords: NIBLSEBLASTGOBLETInstructorResources

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    Infectious Chocolate Joy with a Side of Poissonian Statistics: An activity connecting life science students with subtle physics concepts
    Lesson on what it means for biological processes to be Poissonian, published in CourseSource

    Keywords: quantitative biologybioinformaticsmicrobiologyphysicsNIBLSEHIVCourseSourcemultiplicity of infectionPoisson Distribution

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    Homologous chromosomes? Exploring human sex chromosomes, sex determination and sex reversal using bioinformatics approaches
    In this four- part guided activity, students will learn about the structure and function of human autosomal and sex chromosomes, view and interpret gene maps, and gain familiarity with basic...

    Keywords: bioinformaticsNIBLSECourseSourceautosomehomologous chromosomeshomologous recombinationsex chromosomesex determinationsex reversal mutations

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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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    BioVEDA Curriculum: An Approach to Link Conceptual and Quantitative Understanding of Variation During Experimental Design and Data Analysis
    When performing a biological investigation, experts constantly cycle between conceptual and quantitative modes of thinking, integrating their understanding in both worlds to make decisions about...

    Keywords: statisticssample sizeBiological variation

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