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    Murder by HIV? Undergraduate edition
    Bioinformatics case study focusing on phylogenetic tree interpretation, published in the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science

    Keywords: case studyResources @ NSF - NCCSTSbioinformaticsNIBLSEHIVnucleotide sequencingphylogenetic treeviral life cyclesmutation ratesreverse transcriptase sequences

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    Gibb’s Free Energy and the Nature of Chemical Reactions
    This module introduces Gibb’s Free Energy in the context of understanding the nature of chemical reactions. It is intended for an introductory biology audience.

    Keywords: ExponentsLogarithmsRatiosexponential equationsSequencesCell StructureOpenStaxCell Growthgeometric equations

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    Investigating Gene Expression and Cell Specialization in Axolotl Embryos
    The process of cell specialization is critical to the formation and function of tissues in animals and plants. Although gene expression, including the regulation of transcription, is taught in most...

    Keywords: developmenttranscriptiongene expressionmodel organismembryo

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    Mock Drug Activity Enhances Student Learning About the Challenges of HIV/AIDS Therapy
    While traditional didactic coursework is important for learning about the scientific aspects of HIV/AIDS, it is difficult to convey social aspects of the epidemic. Due to effective drug therapies,...

    Keywords: drug resistanceRetrovirusViral replication

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    A Structured Inquiry-Based Module for the Undergraduate Cell Biology Laboratory That Teaches Fundamental Concepts of Cell Differentiation
    Pedagogical research in science education has shown that students effectively learn science by doing science. As a result, there is increased interest in bringing research-like experiences into the...

    Keywords: fluorescence microscopygene expressionpolymerase chain reactionCell Structurecell culturewestern blottingdifferentiationreverse transcription

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    A 360˚ View of COVID-19
    In March 2020, institutions underwent a massive transition to distance learning as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. With so little time to devise new materials to maximize learning in the new...

    Keywords: geneticsImmunologyBiochemistrybioinformaticsmolecular evolutionpublic healthvirusCOVID19

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    Split Decomp
    This Excel worksheet performs split decomposition on a set of four DNA sequences and their associated amino acid sequences. The user can type in the sequences or paste them in from a text file.

    Keywords: phylogenyDNA sequenceamino acid sequencesplit decomposition

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    Creating Phylogenetic Trees from DNA Sequences
    This interactive module shows how DNA sequences can be used to infer evolutionary relationships among organisms and represent them as phylogenetic trees.

    Keywords: EvolutionHHMI BioInteractivephylogenetic tree

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    EvolSeq
    An Excel worksheet that simulates the molecular evolution of DNA sequences.

    Keywords: molecular evolutionDNA

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    A Close-Up Look at PCR
    The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is a fundamental laboratory technique that allows for the amplification of many copies of a desired DNA target sequence. Despite its prevalence, undergraduate...

    Keywords: PCRDNA replication

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    Dynamic Programming
    In bioinformatics, dynamic programming is mainly used to align nucleotide and amino acid sequences, and to predict RNA and protein folding from primary sequence data.

    Keywords: RNAamino acid sequenceSequence alignmentdynamic programmingprotein folding

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    Protein Analysis
    This Excel workbook allows the analysis of sample or imported protein sequences. The model can analyze protein sequences up to 500 amino acids long.

    Keywords: Protein sequencehydrophobicity/hydrophilicity

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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 Kinesthetic Modeling Activity to Teach PCR Fundamentals
    Most molecular biology and biological sciences students understand that the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is used to amplify DNA. However, we have found that some students experience conceptual...

    Keywords: PCR

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    Functional and structural analysis of Amylase activity
    This exercise was developed to allow students to apply the scientific method and use their knowledge of enzymes to investigate the relationship between enzyme activity and structure. Students...
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    Bioinformatics: CpG Islands
    This is an introductory bioinformatics exercise intended for use in a genetics course.

    Keywords: geneticsepigeneticsbioinformaticsNIBLSEcpggenome database

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    NCBI Overview
    An overview of some of the databases within NCBI and how to get FASTA sequences.

    Keywords: videosbioinformaticsFASTAgenomicsNCBIyoutube

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    GEA Introductory lesson on BLAST
    The "Introduction to BLAST using Human Leptin" exercise aims to introduce students to the use of the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) to identify related sequences and compare similarity...

    Keywords: geneticsProbabilitydatabasebioinformaticsphylogenetic analysisgenomicsBLASTProtein sequenceSimilarity searches

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    DNA Barcoding & Biodiversity databases
    This resource pairs DNA barcoding databases with Biodiversity databases. Students collect their insect specimens in the field and use BLAST and BOLD to identify their species. They then use...
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    Trout modeling example
    This is an open-ended modeling example using difference equations and Algebra II skills.

    Keywords: population biology

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