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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.
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    Web Popgen
    A Hardy-Weinberg simulation program.
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    3D breast cancer tissue reconstruction
    This module allows students to follow a researcher as she discovers new features of breast cancer tissue architecture, using 3D reconstructions of histological specimens.
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    Birthday Problem and Class Phenotypic Probabilities
    An Excel workbook exploring two related applications, the Birthday Problem and Class Phenotypic Probabilities. Students enter their own phenotypes into the workbook.
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    Phenotypic plasticity and predation
    Students predict changes to tadpole morphology and coloration after considering characteristics of the predator species and the prey themselves then test their own hypotheses (typically with...
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    Leaf cutter ant foraging
    This module introduces students to leaf-cutter ants in the rainforests of Panama. Students derive their own research hypotheses regarding ant foraging or allometric scaling relationships.
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    SUMS4Bio - Video tutorials in math and stats for biology students
    Links to videos and pdf tutorials for core mathematical and statistical concepts used in biology
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    Climate Change
    This video describes the basic science of climate change. How do we know about climate in the past? What are humans interfering with? How can we make predictions about what will happen in the future?
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    Claymander Field Experiment
    This activity addresses how predation may affect the frequency of two color morphs in a population. Students collect and analyze data from clay salamander models ('claymanders') to determine...
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    Natural Selection and Galápagos Finches
    A worksheet and accompanying data set that guides students through making and interpreting frequency distributions, selection differentials, and fitness functions.
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    Exploring the Ecology of Gorongosa
    Students learn about bottleneck events, population demographics and growth, ecological niches and competition, food chains/webs and ecological disturbances through past and current data on...
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    Teacher Guide: Math and Statistics
    Topics include measures of average (mean, median, and mode), variability (range and standard deviation), uncertainty (standard error and 95% confidence interval), Chi-square analysis, student...
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    Coral Bleaching Mapping Activity
    This is a classroom activity in which students use authentic data to assess the threat of coral bleaching around the world. It supports the 2014 Holiday Lectures on Science video featuring Dr....
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    Spreadsheet Tutorial 5: Histogram
    Generate a histogram using a variety of methods.
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    QUBES: a community focused on supporting teaching and learning in quantitative biology
    This letter provides an overview of the Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) Project funded through the National Science Foundation.
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    Bioinformatics: CpG Islands
    This is an introductory bioinformatics exercise intended for use in a genetics course.
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