Understanding biology through chemistry - 5 views
I can remember having almost exactly the same issue with transcription and translation. I couldn't get how all these things just seem to randomly "know" how to connect with the right other thing. ...
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Teaching DNA toplogy through practice. - 3 views
one of the hardest concepts in cell biology for undergrads is understanding DNA topology. How a right handed twist can become a left handed interwound writhe, then taken up by a toroidal writhe whe...
peer review in the form of mock grant review panels - 2 views
As a young graduate student learning to write fellowship proposals, I took a course in which the main assignment was to write a research proposal. This involved several rounds of peer-review and pr...
Making more efficient arms - 7 views
I had a degree in Biology and took my first engineering course, Intro to BME. At the first biomechanics lecture, our professor put up a picture of an arm bent at a right angle holding a suspended w...
Practice and feedback in experimental design - 5 views
One of the best courses I had in ecology was an Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) tropical ecology field course in Costa Rica. While being in this beautiful country didn't hurt, it was the s...
Organizing your thoughts in scientific writing - iterative writing with feedback is a p... - 3 views
While I was an undergraduate I did an honours type project for which I had to produce a paper modelled like a scientific journal article. A postdoc of the professor I was working under read over on...
Can strategic learning be mitigated by eliminating course grades? - 6 views
I attended a (primary and secondary) school with no grades and it was great! Since the classes were small teachers evaluated each student on their progress at the end of each term. At the end of th...
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