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Engaging First-Year Undergraduates in Hands-On Research Experiences: The Upper Green River Barcode of Life Project
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Marcus, Jeffrey M.; Hughes, Tia M.; McElroy, Douglas M.; Wyatt, Robert E. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2010
To improve retention and engagement, first-year college science majors enrolled in University Experience orientation courses participated in a hands-on laboratory research experience: a DNA barcoding project to facilitate species identification. Students collected arthropods and hypothesized morphology-based species identifications. Then they…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), College Science, Computer Assisted Instruction, Identification