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1. Discovering Prokaryotic Gene Regulation by Building and Investigating a Computational Model of the lac Operon

   28 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Audrey Crowther¹, Heather E Bergan-Roller², Nicholas J Galt³, Lara Appleby⁴, Joseph T Dauer¹, Tomáš Helikar*¹

   1. University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2. Northern Illinois University 3. Valley City State University 4. Tufts University

   The ability to construct and reason through a biological system is an important skill to develop in science education. This level of understanding forces students to recognize the interrelatedness...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2623/?v=1

2. Modeling the lac Operon to Understand the Regulation of Gene Expression in Prokaryotes

   27 Sep 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Sam S Donovan

   University of Pittsburgh

   This resource is a recitation activity designed for an introductory biology course in which students explore a lac operon simulation (https://qubeshub.org/resources/phetlacoperon).

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1427/?v=1

3. Regulation Across Scales: Data Points Icebreaker Jigsaw

   02 Jan 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Kristine Grayson

   University of Richmond

   Students examine regulation at cellular, physiological, and ecological scales in a data-based jigsaw to explore how double-negative logic operates across biological systems. This was used as a...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/985/?v=1