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| Paper: |
Central Dog-ma Disease Detectives: A Molecular Biology Inquiry Activity for Undergraduates |
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436, Learning from Inquiry In Practice |
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195 |
| Authors: |
Quan, T. K.; Yuh, P.; Black, F. |
| Abstract: |
The Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) and Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) are programs at the University of California at Santa Cruz designed to support minority undergraduate students majoring in the sciences. Each summer MARC/MBRS sponsors a Summer Institute that involves week long “rotations” with different faculty mentors. In 2008, the Center for Adaptive Optics (CfAO) Professional Development Program (PDP) was responsible for overseeing one week of the Summer Institute, and designed it to be a Biomedical Short Course. As part of this short course, we designed a four-hour activity in which students collected their own data and explored relationships between the basic biomolecules DNA, RNA, and protein. The goal was to have the students use experimental data to support their explanation of the “Central Dogma” of molecular biology. Here we describe details of our activity and provide a post-teaching reflection on its success. |
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