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Direct linkCrystal Uminski; Dina L. Newman; L. Kate Wright – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2025
Molecular biology can be challenging for undergraduate students because it requires visual literacy skills to interpret abstract representations of submicroscopic concepts, structures, and processes. The Conceptual-Reasoning-Mode framework suggests that visual literacy relies on applying conceptual knowledge to appropriately reason with the…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Student Attitudes, Molecular Biology, Genetics
Download full textSubir Ghosh – Bioscene: Journal of College Biology Teaching, 2023
Undergraduate students of a molecular cell biology laboratory class learn basic recombinant DNA (rDNA) technology by engaging in a Genomic Library Construction Project. Significantly, in this lab project students learn experimental design strategy. The challenge for students is to determine the strategy that they can take to efficiently screen for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Molecular Biology, Cytology, Science Laboratories
Risanti Dhaniaputri; Hadi Suwono; Betty Lukiati – Journal of Biological Education Indonesia (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi Indonesia), 2024
Plant metabolite compounds have been applied on plant cellular metabolism, produces organic and inorganic compounds, primary and secondary bioactive molecules, such as glucose, amino acids, fat acids, alkaloids, flavonoids, and terpenoids. Undergraduate biology students learn about the plant terpenoid assisted by bioinformatics to store, manage,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Biology, Plants (Botany)
Sievers, Matt; Reemts, Connor; Dickinson, Katherine J.; Mukerji, Joya; Beltran, Ismael Barreras; Theobald, Elli J.; Velasco, Vicente; Freeman, Scott – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2023
Researchers have called for undergraduate courses to update teaching frameworks based on the Modern Synthesis with insights from molecular biology, by stressing the molecular underpinnings of variation and adaptation. To support this goal, we developed a modified version of the widely used Assessing Conceptual Reasoning of Natural Selection…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Knowledge Level, Molecular Biology, Evolution
R. A. Paggi; M. C. Ferrari; M. Cerletti; M. I. Giménez; T. S. Schwarz; A. Marchfelder; R. E. De Castro – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2025
Perturbation of gene expression using RNA interference (RNAi) or CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) is a useful strategy to explore the function of essential genes. In the archaeon "Haloferax volcanii," the CRISPR-Cas system has been adapted as a CRISPRi tool to silence the expression of specific genes. We developed a laboratory class (LC) to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Laboratory Experiments, Science Instruction, Biochemistry
Linpeng Li; Chao Song; Yi Ma; Yi Zou – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
Animal models are widely used in laboratory practicals in biomedical disciplines. However, experiments involving animal work are usually time-and-labor consuming. It is also costly to run an animal lab and the animal caring/holding request special training. Here we present a laboratory course design that provides students with wet lab experience…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Animals, Models, Science Laboratories
Rheanna E. Walther; Michael Hrabak; Douglas A. Bernstein – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2024
Molecular biology, broadly defined as the investigation of complex biomolecules in the laboratory, is a rapidly advancing field and as such the technologies available to investigators are constantly evolving. This constant advancement has obvious advantages because it allows students and researchers to perform more complex experiments in shorter…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Molecular Biology, Science Laboratories, Genetics
The Use of Molecular and Cell Biology Scientific News to Facilitate Learning and Scientific Thinking
Laura C. Giojalas; Leticia García Romano; Giuliana Lingua; Rocío B. Martín – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2025
Molecular Cell Biology (MCB) should be taught according to the scientific practices, avoiding cumulative and memory knowledge construction, but favoring scientific thinking. A way to achieve this goal is to apply activities involving scientific news, which construct knowledge through significant learning and the development of critical thinking.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Faculty, Cytology, Molecular Biology
Didem Vardar-Ulu; Saif Eldeen Ragab; Swati Agrawal; Shuchismita Dutta – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2024
Molecular case studies (MCSs) are open educational resources that use a storytelling approach to engage students in biomolecular structure-function explorations, at the interface of biology and chemistry. Although MCSs are developed for a particular target audience with specific learning goals, they are suitable for implementation in multiple…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Educational Technology, Molecular Biology, Undergraduate Students
Jeremy L. Hsu; Rou-Jia Sung; Su L. Swarat; Alexandra J. Gore; Stephanie Kim; Stanley M. Lo – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Existing research has investigated student problem-solving strategies across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; however, there is limited work in undergraduate biology education on how various aspects that influence learning combine to generate holistic approaches to problem solving. Through the lens of situated cognition, we…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Biology, Science Instruction, Holistic Approach
Agudo-Ruiz, Jorge Andrés – American Biology Teacher, 2022
The purpose of this research was to determine the effect of the 5E model on the understanding of the molecular genetics concepts taught in general biology. The research had a quantitative focus and a quasi-experimental design, and the participants were 40 undergraduate students from a private university in the west of Puerto Rico, which were…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Undergraduate Students
Assessment of a Flipped Classroom Model Based on Microlectures in a Medical Molecular Biology Course
Kong, Fanli; Li, Zhengyi; Su, Xiaoming; Zhuang, Wenyue – Journal of Biological Education, 2022
This study aims to compare the influences of traditional lectures (TL) with a flipped classroom (FC). Two consecutive classes of students from a laboratory medicine speciality learned medical molecular biology through the flipped or nonflipped (TL) approach with online microlectures. We inspected examination scores, learning experiences and…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Lecture Method, Molecular Biology, Electronic Learning
Lopatto, David; Rosenwald, Anne G.; Burgess, Rebecca C.; Silver Key, Catherine; Van Stry, Melanie; Wawersik, Matthew; DiAngelo, Justin R.; Hark, Amy T.; Skerritt, Matthew; Allen, Anna K.; Alvarez, Consuelo; Anderson, Sara; Arrigo, Cindy; Arsham, Andrew; Barnard, Daron; Bedard, James E. J.; Bose, Indrani; Braverman, John M.; Burg, Martin G.; Croonquist, Paula; Du, Chunguang; Dubowsky, Sondra; Eisler, Heather; Escobar, Matthew A.; Foulk, Michael; Giarla, Thomas; Glaser, Rivka L.; Goodman, Anya L.; Gosser, Yuying; Haberman, Adam; Hauser, Charles; Hays, Shan; Howell, Carina E.; Jemc, Jennifer; Jones, Christopher J.; Kadlec, Lisa; Kagey, Jacob D.; Keller, Kimberly L.; Kennell, Jennifer; Kleinschmit, Adam J.; Kleinschmit, Melissa; Kokan, Nighat P.; Kopp, Olga Ruiz; Laakso, Meg M.; Leatherman, Judith; Long, Lindsey J.; Manier, Mollie; Martinez-Cruzado, Juan C.; Matos, Luis F.; McClellan, Amie Jo; McNeil, Gerard; Merkhofer, Evan; Mingo, Vida; Mistry, Hemlata; Mitchell, Elizabeth; Mortimer, Nathan T.; Myka, Jennifer Leigh; Nagengast, Alexis; Overvoorde, Paul; Paetkau, Don; Paliulis, Leocadia; Parrish, Susan; Toering Peters, Stephanie; Preuss, Mary Lai; Price, James V.; Pullen, Nicholas A.; Reinke, Catherine; Revie, Dennis; Robic, Srebrenka; Roecklein-Canfield, Jennifer A.; Rubin, Michael R.; Sadikot, Takrima; Siders Sanford, Jamie; Santisteban, Maria; Saville, Kenneth; Schroeder, Stephanie; Shaffer, Christopher D.; Sharif, Karim A.; Sklensky, Diane E.; Small, Chiyedza; Smith, Sheryl; Spokony, Rebecca; Sreenivasan, Aparna; Stamm, Joyce; Sterne-Marr, Rachel; Teeter, Katherine C.; Thackeray, Justin; Thompson, Jeffrey S.; Velazquez-Ulloa, Norma; Wolfe, Cindy; Youngblom, James; Yowler, Brian; Zhou, Leming; Brennan, Janie; Buhler, Jeremy; Leung, Wilson; Elgin, Sarah C. R.; Reed, Laura K. – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2022
The Genomics Education Partnership (GEP) engages students in a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE). To better understand the student attributes that support success in this CURE, we asked students about their attitudes using previously published scales that measure epistemic beliefs about work and science, interest in science,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Instructional Effectiveness, Undergraduate Students, Student Research
Xinliang Zhu; Ting Tang – Cogent Education, 2024
In recent years, single-subject experimental courses have not been able to meet the demands of the comprehensive development of life sciences. This study is based on two fundamental disciplines, molecular biology and metabolomics, with the analysis and intervention of tumor-related genes as the starting point. A comprehensive experimental course…
Descriptors: Cancer, Molecular Biology, Scientific Concepts, Intervention
Elijah J. Cole; Jennifer H. Doherty – Advances in Physiology Education, 2025
Research shows that when students use core concepts to guide their reasoning, they are able to construct more accurate, mechanistic explanations. However, there is scant research exploring student's perceptions of the usefulness of core concepts. Knowing students' perceptions could be influential in encouraging faculty to adopt core concept…
Descriptors: Physiology, Science Education, Student Attitudes, Thinking Skills
