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    Restoring tropical forests: Is planting clusters of trees a cost-effective and ecologically-sound strategy to restore tropical forest?
    This module (available in four languages) provides a broad introduction to both ecological and social aspects of tropical forest restoration. It focuses on a long-term study comparing three...

    Keywords: Restoration Ecologyforest restorationtropical forest

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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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    2017-Sim-EtAl-Optimal control of a coupled tanks system with model-reality differences
    In this paper, an efficient computational approach is proposed to optimize and control a coupled tanks system.

    Keywords: optimal controlflowtankscoupled tanks

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    Remote Sensing of Plants and Topography in R (Project EDDIE) for Advanced GIS class
    Students will explore different possible abiotic drivers of plant growth, defined as greenness and height. In the final step, students will analyze data from around the United States and consider...
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    Comparative Landscape Ecology Project using RStudio Cloud (Project EDDIE)
    This modified version incorporates the use of RStudio Cloud for easier remote instruction, and culminates in an exploratory project comparing the influence of patch metrics on vegetation health for...
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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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    Biogeography of plant-associated fungi: who lives where and why?
    This dataset of fungal communities associated with the leaves an endemic Hawaiian tree provides students opportunities to explore relationships between environmental variables and microbial...

    Keywords: small group activityinquiry-based learningbiogeographymicrobial ecology

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    Simulating Cortical Rotation, Axis Induction, and Experimental Embryology in Amphibian Embryos Using Clay Models
    The study of development requires learners to understand spatially complex concepts like embryo anatomy. Embryo anatomy is dynamic over time, and it is often manipulated by researchers in...

    Keywords: developmentXenopusfertilizationEmbryologyinductionSymmetry breakingOrganizerCortical rotationPatterning

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    Functional trait-based restoration. Can hybrid restoration enhance invasion resistance and ecosystem services?
    A hybrid restoration experiment in Hilo, Hawaiʻi, in an area of high biocultural conservation value, that address the ecological and philosophical issues involved in conducting restoration with a...

    Keywords: Invasive SpeciesagroforestryHawaii CountyRestoration Ecologyplant functional traitstropical forest

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    The Edge Effect
    This module has students venturing outdoors to take a 50m transect and collect abundance data on plants utilizing quadrats in both edge and interior environment. Mathematically the goals of this...

    Keywords: statisticsecologydata analysisExcelintroductory biologygraphingp-valuest-testsQuantitative reasoninghypothesis testingsample sizestatistical testsinterdisciplinarystatistical analysisCommunity Ecologyspecies diversityvariationdiversity indexvinterpret dataNIQBShannon diversity indexC3. Statistical AnalysisC6. Quantitative Languageedge effect

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    Interpreting the Pseudocot Phylogeny
    Students use physical characteristics, genetics, and a fossil record of hypothetical flowering plants to develop fundamental phylogenetic tree-building skills.
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    Using Place-Based Economically Relevant Organisms to Improve Student Understanding of the Roles of Carbon Dioxide, Sunlight, and Nutrients in Photosynthetic Organisms
    Biology students require broad preparation for diverse careers including agriculture, natural resource management, and laboratory research. Concurrent with this need, employers are seeking...

    Keywords: energyphotosynthesisbiomass

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    Central Dogma, Dictionaries, and Functions: Using Programming Concepts to Simulate Biological Processes
    Technologies like next-generation sequencing, proteomics, and high-throughput phenotyping have transformed the way we do biology. There is a continued need for scientists with computational skills...

    Keywords: computationpythonJupyter notebookFunctionscentral dogmaDictionaries

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    Problem-Based Learning for Physiology: Synthesizing the Cardiovascular System, Respiration, Macronutrient Metabolism, and Renal Function
    Problem Based Learning (PBL) is a valuable tool for helping students overcome reliance on memorization by scaffolding opportunities for them to practice the competency of...

    Keywords: MetabolismObesityblood pressurecardiac functioncardiovascularmetabolic syndromerenalRespirationrespiratory system

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    It's a bird! It's a plane! It's biomechanics!
    Biomechanics is a discipline that draws from physics and engineering principles to understand the movement and structure of living organisms. It is highly interdisciplinary in nature and can be...

    Keywords: EvolutionecologybatphysiologyAnatomybirdFlightforcesinsect

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    Grow the Gradient: An interactive countercurrent multiplier game
    The countercurrent multiplier of the loop of Henle in a mammalian kidney is a challenging concept for instructors to teach and for students to learn. We developed an interactive game to support...

    Keywords: countercurrent multiplierexcretory systemkidneyloop of Henlemembrane transport

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    Sex and gender: What does it mean to be female or male?
    This lesson provides three activities to engage non-science major students in a discussion about sex, gender, gender identity, and sex determination. Students prepare for the lesson by reading a...

    Keywords: gendersex determinationgender identitysex

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    DNA Detective: Genotype to Phenotype. A Bioinformatics Workshop for Middle School to College.
    Advances in high-throughput techniques have resulted in a rising demand for scientists with basic bioinformatics skills as well as workshops and curricula that teach students bioinformatics...

    Keywords: geneticsbioinformaticsDNAgenotypephenotypegenegene annotation

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    A Short Bone Biomechanics Primer: Background for a Lesson on Bone Viscoelasticity
    The skeletal system is the first of the body systems that we discuss in-depth in our Physiology & Anatomy courses (PNB 2264/2265 and PNB 2274/2275) in the Department of Physiology and...

    Keywords: structure-functionbiomechanicsAnisotropyViscoelasticity

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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...

    Keywords: introductory biologyQuantitative reasoningInterdisciplinary STEMquantitative biologyinterdisciplinaryquantitative skillscell functioncell cyclemitosisCell DivisionMitotic Indexcalculating meanstumorNIQBC2. Data and GraphsC4. mathematical modelsC3. Statistical Analysisstandard errormitotic phaseinterphase

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