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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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    Plasmodium Problem Space
    This problem space brings together diverse resources with the goal of helping biology teachers and learners engage in research investigations.

    Keywords: bioinformaticsproblem spacesNIBLSERNAseqmalariaplasmodium

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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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    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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    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.

    Keywords: bioinformaticsNIBLSEProtein StructureDNAmolecular modelinggenotypephenotypeCourseSourcecomputational modelingcentral dogmaplant leaf structure

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    Exploration of the Human Genome by Investigation of Personalized SNPs
    To increase students' interest in their own genomes, this computer-based laboratory lesson is designed to be coupled with the opportunity for the students to be genotyped by the consumer sequencing...

    Keywords: bioinformaticsNIBLSECourseSourcegenomic wide association studiesUCSC genome browsersingle nucleotide polymorphism

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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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    Amino Acid Frequency
    This module introduces expected frequencies in the context of understanding amino acid composition. It is intended for an introductory biology audience.

    Keywords: Probabilitylinear regressionamino acidsOpenStaxGenetic InformationAminoAmino Acid Freuency

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    Morphological, Anatomical and Molecular Analysis of Plant Phylogeny and Diversity
    In this lab, students perform phylogenetic analyses on morphological, anatomical and molecular data, and compare.

    Keywords: morphologyphylogenylaboratoryplantsmolecular analysisstele architecture

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    Phylogeny of Land Plants
    In this lab, students review the characteristics of the major land plant lineages. Then they perform phylogenetic analyses based on morphological characters.

    Keywords: morphologyphylogenylaboratoryplantsmolecular analysis

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    Citations
    Published Avida-Ed article

    Keywords: EvolutioncurriculumSelectionDigital Organisms

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    Mutation and Selection: An Exploration of Antibiotic Resistance in Serratia Marcescens
    This laboratory module gives students hands-on experience with mutation and selection in bacteria.

    Keywords: moduleinquiry labsmutationartificial selectionbacteriain-class activityHandoutlab protocolResources @ QUBES - Teaching & Referenceantibiotic-resistance

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    Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC)
    An online journal focusing upon generally-applicable studies of cell biology.

    Keywords: cell biologycellmolecular biologyResources @ ASCBResources @ QUBES - Teaching & Reference

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    Joel E. Greengiant Learns About Peas: From Nucleotides to Selection
    This case study follows purveyors of peas, Joel E. and Jolene Greengiant, as they learn about the origin, biochemistry, genetics and eventual artificial selection of sweet (wrinkled) peas, all in...

    Keywords: geneticspopulation geneticsEvolutionintroductory biologycase studybiologyResources @ NSF - NCCSTSmeiosisMendel’s peaspea plantPisum sativumMendel’s Lawsmolecular geneticsmutationnucleotide insertionartificial selectionstarch synthesisstarch branching enzymeplant domesticationlegumesResources @ QUBES - Teaching & Reference

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    BioNumbers-the database of key numbers in molecular and cell biology
    BioNumbers is a database of key numbers in molecular and cell biology—the quantitative properties of biological systems of interest to computational, systems and molecular cell biologists

    Keywords: dataResources @ BioNumbersNumbersestimationdatabaseResources @ QUBES - Teaching & Reference

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    Drug screening and cancer resistance: EGFR Activity
    This activity explores a specific gene (egfr) and its role in cancer. EGFR was introduced with the Gene Card Activities, researched throughout the semester, and then authentic image data of...

    Keywords: Resources @ HHMI - BioInteractivegenomicscancergenetic basis of diseasebiology of cells

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    Evo-Ed: Cases for Effective Evolution Education
    BioQUEST 2018 Education Resources for Evo-ED.
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    Using Case Studies to Engage Students in Wicked Problems
    Interactive presentation on using case studies at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: case studiesSummer Workshop 2018wicked problems

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    Using CREATE in the Undergraduate Ecology Classroom
    Poster on using the CREATE (Consider, Read, Elucidate the Hypothesis, Analyze and Interpret the Data, and Think of the Next Experiment) approach pioneered in molecular and cellular biology classes...

    Keywords: primary literatureCREATEjournal articlesSummer Workshop 2018

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    Morphological and Molecular Analysis of Plant Phylogeny and Diversity
    In this lab, students perform phylogenetic analyses on morphological and molecular data, and compare.

    Keywords: morphologyphylogenylaboratoryplantsdiversitymolecular analysis

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