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Ahmadiantehrani, Somayeh; Gores, Elisa O.; London, Sarah E. – Learning & Memory, 2018
Nonassociative learning is considered simple because it depends on presentation of a single stimulus, but it likely reflects complex molecular signaling. To advance understanding of the molecular mechanisms of one form of nonassociative learning, habituation, for ethologically relevant signals we examined song recognition learning in adult zebra…
Descriptors: Habituation, Associative Learning, Correlation, Singing
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Southard, Katelyn M.; Espindola, Melissa R.; Zaepfel, Samantha D.; Bolger, Molly S. – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
When conducting scientific research, experts in molecular and cellular biology (MCB) use specific reasoning strategies to construct mechanistic explanations for the underlying causal features of molecular phenomena. We explored how undergraduate students applied this scientific practice in MCB. Drawing from studies of explanation building among…
Descriptors: Molecular Biology, Biology, Science Instruction, Qualitative Research
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White, Harold B., III; Dhurjati, Prasad – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2006
A protein lacking one of the 20 common amino acids is a protein lipogram. This open-ended problem-based learning assignment deals with the evolution of proteins with biased amino acid composition. It has students query protein and metabolic databases to test the hypothesis that natural selection has reduced the frequency of each amino acid…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Statistical Analysis, Problem Based Learning, Autism