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    Spreadsheet Tutorial 1: Adapted to Anatomy and Physiology
    Adapted the examples to Anatomy and Physiology relevant topics and implemented in BIO165L Anatomy and Physiology I Laboratory for non-majors.

    Keywords: Resources @ HHMI - BioInteractivesummary statisticsScientific ProcessScientific Methodology

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    Spreadsheet Data Analysis Terms and Shortened Tutorial 4
    Introductory students are asked to learn terms for descriptive statistics and complete a matching exercise. Tutorial 4 was shorted to just the full calculations of t values.

    Keywords: Scientific ProcessStatistics and MathScientific Methodology

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    Stem Cells in Planaria Regeneration and Wound Healing
    Discussion questions to help guide students examining a graph of number of mitoses vs time for planaria injured or had amputations of their tails.

    Keywords: Stem cellsregenerationplanaria

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    Maternal transmission of microbiome
    Understanding the cascading effects of the transfer of maternal microbiome during a vaginal birth (vs. a c-section) to the well-being of a newborn.

    Keywords: microbiomehuman reproduction

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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...

    Keywords: Community Ecologypopulation ecology

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    Quantifying The Drivers and Impacts of Natural Disturbance Events – The 2013 Colorado Floods
    This lesson focuses on ways that scientists identify and use data to understand ecological disturbance events using data from five public datasets. The main lesson focused on interpretation of...

    Keywords: data in the classroomdata interpretationprecipitationstream dischargePalmer Drought Severity IndexlidarEcological Disturbancedisturbance ecologyHigh School

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    Disease Spread Simulation with M&M's and Information on the wider SIMIODE community
    This is a Student Version of a Modeling Scenario from the community, SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations at www.simiode.org

    Keywords: resourcesdifferential equationsmodelingsimulationmoduledataepidemicsdiseasecommunityapplied mathematicsResources @ SIMIODEretinal surgeryinsect colonyLSDm&mparameter estimationin-class activityproject

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    E. coli Citrate Use
    EvoEd module on citrate use in E.coli

    Keywords: modulephylogeneticsecologycell biologymolecular genetics

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    Monkey Opsins
    This case will examine the evolution of trichromatic vision in old world monkeys.

    Keywords: modulephylogeneticsecologycell biologymolecular geneticsResources @ EvoEd

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    Quantitative Reasoning Learning Progression
    Three articles about the work of a project on quantitative reasoning in the context of environmental literacy.

    Keywords: quantitative

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    Populus: Simulations of Population Biology
    Link to Populus Software

    Keywords: simulationpopulation growthpopulus

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    Datasets for Whitlock & Schluter's "The Analysis of Biological Data"
    Link to data sets used in The Analysis of Biological Data . All data are in CSV format.

    Keywords: The Analysis of Biological DataResources @ QUBES - Data

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    Modeling: A Primer - The crafty art of making, exploring, extending, transforming, tweaking, bending, disassembling, questioning, and breaking models
    Explore how to use, analyze, and criticize some important and historically influential models in biology in this text only module.

    Keywords: modelingsimulationmoduleResources @ BioQUESTtextbookmodulesmathematical modeling

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    Visual Datasets
    This downloadable module features imaginary animals and plants, and is meant to aid students in thinking about questions of evolution, classification, and phylogeny.

    Keywords: moduleEvolutionResources @ BioQUESTonlinephylogenyonline learning

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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...

    Keywords: Resources @ HHMI - BioInteractiveStatistics and Mathteacher guide

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    Mendelian Genetics, Probability, Pedigree, and Chi-Squared Statistics
    A lesson that requires students to work through a series of questions pertaining to the genetics of sickle cell disease and its relationship to malaria.

    Keywords: geneticsResources @ HHMI - BioInteractiveScientific ProcessStatistics and Mathmendelian inheritance

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    Allele and Phenotype Frequencies in Rock Pocket Mouse Populations
    A lesson that uses real rock pocket mouse data collected by Dr. Michael Nachman and his colleagues to illustrate the Hardy-Weinberg principle.

    Keywords: EvolutionResources @ HHMI - BioInteractiveNatural SelectionScientific ProcessStatistics and Mathevolution of populations

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    AIM-UP! Reading scientific literature module
    Designed to span 4 one-hour lectures, this module focuses upon developing the skill of thorough and critical reading of scientific literature.

    Keywords: Resources @ AIM-UP!primary literaturereadingscientific literatureliteraturereading comprehensioncritical reading

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    AIM-UP! GIS and bats lesson
    This lesson introduces the use of GIS (geographic information systems) in the study of biological questions, using bats as the model organism. This activity requires access to GIS software.

    Keywords: ecologyResources @ AIM-UP!GISgeographical information systemsbats

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    AIM-UP! Coal balls lesson
    In this activity, students learn about ancient plant life and climate change by examining coal balls. In addition to the lesson itself, information is provided on where to purchase coal ball peel...

    Keywords: ecologybotanyResources @ AIM-UP!climate changeglobal warmingfossilcoalpaleontologypaleobotany

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