Multimedia presentations on the human genome: Implementation and assessment of a teaching program for the introduction to genome science using a poster and animations

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 395-401

  Kano, Kei ^a,c   Yahata, Saiko ^a   Muroi, Kaori ^a   Kawakami, Masahiro ^a   Tomoda, Mari ^b   Miyaki, Koichi ^b   Nakayama, Takeo ^b   Kosugi, Shinji ^b   Kato, Kazuto ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Animation; Genome science; High school; Human genome; Illustration; Multimedia presentation; Poster; Teaching program

Indexed keywords

PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 57149120358     PISSN: 14708175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bmb.20231     Document Type: Article

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