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Jennifer Hackett Releases New College Workbook

Ms. Hackett's text, Molecular Biology Concepts for Inquiry: The Exploration Workbook, includes inquiry activities to help students explore evidence through logic to construct an understanding of concepts and eliminate misconceptions.
Inquiry activities include:
  • Introductory Biochemistry
  • How proteins contribute to modes of inheritance
  • The structure and function of fluorescent proteins
  • The conceptual basis of PCR
  • The function of restriction enzymes and their use in engineering
  • Epigenetic inheritance in imprinted diseases
  • Analysis of the genetics of cancer
  • And the design of a CRISPR RNA to cure a genetic disease
These activities are intended to be conducted in a classroom where an instructor periodically guides student thinking in small groups and leads class discussions of key concepts following activities. A subset of the class activities focuses on pre- or post-experiment analyses that could either stand alone or could be used as a conceptual framework around which experiments could be conducted. To see the full list of suggested experiments and other supporting materials, visit https:// hackettmolecularbiology.blogspot.com/.
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