Teaching human genetics with mustard: Rapid cycling Brassica rapa (fast plants type) as a model for human genetics in the classroom laboratory

CBE Life Sciences Education

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 179-185

  Wendell, Douglas L ^a   Pickard, Dawn ^a  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRASSICA; BRASSICA RAPA; BRASSICA RAPA SUBSP. RAPA;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; BRASSICA; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MEDICAL GENETICS; PATERNITY; TEACHING; TURNIP;

BRASSICA RAPA; CURRICULUM; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, MEDICAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; MUSTARD PLANT; PATERNITY; TEACHING;

EID: 34250865644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19317913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1187/cbe.07-02-0010     Document Type: Article

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