Nothing in evolution makes sense except in the light of DNA

CBE Life Sciences Education

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 87-97

  Kalinowski, Steven T ^a   Leonard, Mary J ^a   Andrews, Tessa M ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG RESISTANCE; EDUCATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STUDENT; TEACHING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOLOGY; DNA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC SPECIATION; HUMANS; MICE; RATS; SELECTION, GENETIC; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

LAMARCKIA;

EID: 77954063511     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19317913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1187/cbe.09-12-0088     Document Type: Article

References (84)

1. Alters, B. J., and Nelson, C. E. (2002). Teaching evolution in higher education. Evolution 56, 1891-1901
2. Anderson, D. L., Fisher, K. M., and Norman, G. J. (2002). Development and evaluation of the conceptual inventory of natural science. J. Res. Sci. Teach. 39, 952-978
3. Bardapurkar, A. (2008). Do students see the "selection" in organic evolution? A critical review of the causal structure of student explanations. Evol. Educ. Outreach 1, 299-305
4. Baum, D. A., Smith, S. D., and Donovan, S.S.S. (2005). The tree thinking challenge. Science 310, 979-980
5. Belk, M. C., and Smith M. H. (1996). Pelage coloration in oldfield mice (Peromyscus polionotus): antipredator adaptation? J. Mammal. 77,882-890
6. Bishop, B., and Anderson, C. (1990). Student conceptions of natural selection and its role in evolution. J. Res. Sci. Teach. 27, 415-427
7. Boyle, C. M. (1960). Case of apparent resistance of Rattus norvegicus anticoagulant poisons. Nature 188, 517
8. Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., and Cocking, R. R. (eds.). (2000). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, Washington, DC: National Academies Press
9. Bromham, L. (2009). Darwin would have loved DNA: celebrating Darwin 200. Biol. Lett. 5, 503-505
10. Brumby, M. N. (1984). Misconceptions about the concept of natural selection by medical biology students. Sci. Educ. 68, 493-503
11. Campbell, N. A., Reece, J. B., Urry, L. A., Cain, M. L., Wasserman, S. A., Minorsky, P. V., and Jackson, R. B. (2008). Biology, 8th ed., San. Francisco, CA: Pearson/Benjamin Cummings
12. Cately, K. M. (2006). Darwin's missing link-a novel paradigm for evolution education. Sci. Educ. 90, 767-783
13. Catrambone, R., and Holyoak, K. J. (1989). Overcoming contextual limitations on problem-solving transfer. J. Exp. Psychol. Learn. Mem. Cogn. 15, 1147-1156
14. Cavener, D. R., and Clegg, M. T. (1975). Dynamics of correlated genetic systems. IV. Multilocus effects of ethanol stress environments. Genetics 90, 629-644
15. Coyne, J. (2009). Why Evolution Is True, New York: Viking
16. Dawkins, R. (1986). The Blind Watchmaker, New York: W. W. Norton
17. Dawkins, R. (2009). The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, New York: The Free Press
18. Dean, M., et al. (1996). Genetic restriction of HIV-1 infection and progression to AIDS by a deletion allele of the CKR5 structural gene. Science 273, 1856-1862
19. Demastes, S. S., Settlage, J., and Good, R. (1995). Students' conceptions of natural selection and its role in evolution: cases of replication and comparison. J. Res. Sci. Teach. 32, 535-550
20. di Sessa, A. A. (2006). A history of conceptual change research: threads and fault lines. In: The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences, ed. K. Sawyer, Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 265-282
21. Dobzhansky, T. (1937). Genetics and the Origin of Species, New York: Columbia University Press
22. Dobzhansky, T. (1973). Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. Am. Biol. Teach. 35, 125-129
23. Freeman, S. (2008) Biological Science, 3rd ed., Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall/Pearson Education
24. Glass, W. G., McDermott, D. H., Lim, J. K., Lekhong, S., Yu, S. F., Frank, W. A., Pape, J., Cheshier, R. C., and Murphy, P. M. (2006). CCR5 deficiency increases risk of symptomatic West Nile virus infection. J. Exp. Med. 203, 35-40
25. Green, R. E., et al. (2008). A complete neandertal mitochondrial genome sequence determined by high-throughput sequencing. Cell 134,416-426
26. Greene, E. D. (1990). The logic of university students' misunderstanding of natural selection. J. Res. Sci. Teach. 27, 875-885
27. Gregory, T. R. (2009). Understanding natural selection: essential concepts and common misconceptions. Evol. Educ. Outreach 2, 156-175
28. Gregory, T. R. (2008). Understanding evolutionary trees. Evol. Educ. Outreach 1, 121-137
29. Guzetti, B. J., Snyder, T. E., Glass, G. V., and Gamas, W. S. (1993). Promoting conceptual change in science: a comparative meta-analysis of instructional interventions from reading education and science education. Read. Res. Q. 28, 116-159
30. Hake, R. R. (1998). Interactive-engagement versus traditional methods: a six-thousand-student survey of mechanics test data for introductory physics courses. Am. J. Phys. 66, 64-74
31. Hall, B. G. (2002). Predicting evolution by in vitro evolution requires determining evolutionary pathways. Antimicrob. Agents Che-mother. 46, 3035-3038
32. Halpern, D. F., and Hakel, M. D. (2003) Applying the science of learning to the university and beyond. Change (July/Aug.): 37-41
33. Hedrick, P. W., and Verrelli, B. C. (2006). 'Ground truth' for selection on CCR5-D32. Trends Genet. 22, 293-296
34. Hewson, P. W., Beeth, M. E., and Thorley, N. R. (1998). Teaching for conceptual change. In: International Handbook of Science Education, ed. B. J. Fraser and K. G. Tobin, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 199-218
35. Hoekstra, H. E., Hirschmann, R. J., Bundey, R. A., Insel, P. A., and Crossland, J. P. (2006). A single amino acid mutation contributes to adaptive beach mouse color pattern. Science 313, 101-104
36. Huxley, J. (1943). Evolution, The Modern Synthesis, New York: Harper and Brothers
37. Ingman, M., Kaessmann, H., Paabo, S., and Gyllensten, U. (2000) Mitochondrial genome variation and the origin of modern humans. Nature 408, 708-713
38. Ingram, E. L., and Nelson, C. E. (2006). Relationship between achievement and students' acceptance of evolution or creation in an upper-level evolution course. J. Res. Sci. Teach. 43, 7-24
39. Jensen, M. S., and Finley, F. N. (1996). Changes in students' understanding of evolution resulting from different curricular and instructional strategies. J. Res. Sci. Teach. 33, 879-900
40. Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (2008). Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic 2008. Geneva, Switzerland: UNAIDS. www.unaids.org/en/KnowledgeCentre/HIVData/GlobalReport/2008/default.asp (accessed 14 April 2010)
41. Kalinowski, S. T., Taper, M. L., and Metz, A. M. (2006a). Can mutation and natural selection mimic design? A guided inquiry laboratory for undergraduate students. Genetics 174, 1073-1079
42. Kalinowski, S. T., Taper, M. L., and Metz, A. M. (2006b). How are humans related to other primates? A guided inquiry laboratory for undergraduate students. Genetics 172, 1379-1383
43. Kaufman, D. W. (1974). Adaptive coloration in Peromyscus polionotus: experimental selection by owls. J. Mammal. 55, 271-283
44. Klymkowsky, M. W., and Garvin-Doxas, K. G. (2008). Recognizing student misconceptions through Ed's Tools and the Biology Concept Inventory. PLoS Biol. 6, e3
45. Lamarck, J. (1809). Philosophie Zoologique, Paris, France (English translation: Elliot, H. Zoological Philosophy, Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press)
46. Lange, K. E. (2002). The evolution of dogs: wolf to woof. Natl. Geogr. Mag. (Jan. 2002): 2-11
47. Li, T., Chang, C. Y., Jin, D. Y., Lin, P. J., Khvorova, A., and Stafford, D. W. (2004). Identification of the gene for vitamin K epoxide reductase. Nature 427, 541-544
48. Mayr, E. (1982). The Growth of Biological Thought, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
49. Mayr, E. (2001). What Evolution Is, New York: Basic Books
50. Mayr, E., and Provine, W. B. (1980). The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
51. McDermott, L. (1998). Students' conceptions and problem solving in mechanics. In: Connecting Research in Physics Education with Teacher Eduction, ed. A. Tiberghien, E. Jossem, and J. Barojas, OH: ICPE Books, 1-11 www.physics.ohio-state.edu/ jossem/ICPE/C1.html.
52. Medin, D. L., and Atran, S. (2004). The native mind: biological categorization and reasoning in development and across cultures. Psychol. Rev. 111, 960-983
53. Mestre, J. (2003). Transfer of learning: issues and research agenda: report of a workshop held at the National Science Foundation. www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03212/nsf03212.pdf
54. Morgan, T. H. (1932). The Scientific Basis of Evolution, New York: W. W. Norton
55. National Research Council (2005). How Students Learn: Science in the Classroom. Committee on How People Learn, A Targeted Report for Teachers, ed. M. S. Donovan and J. D. Bransford, Washington, DC: National Academies Press
56. Nehm, R. H., and Reilly, L. (2007). Biology majors' knowledge and misconceptions of natural selection. Bioscience 57, 263-272
57. Nehm, R. H., and Schonfeld, I. (2008). Measuring knowledge of natural selection: a comparison of the CINS, an open-response instrument, and an oral interview. J. Res. Sci. Teach. 45, 1131-1160
58. Nussbaum, J., and Novick, S. (1982). Alternative frameworks, conceptual conflict, and accommodation: toward a principled teaching strategy. Instr. Sci. 11, 183-200
59. Parker, H. G., et al. (2009). An expressed Fgf4 retrogene is associated with breed-defining chondrodysplasia in domestic dogs. Science 325,995-998
60. Payne, F. (1910). Forty-nine generations in the dark. Biol. Bull 18, 188-190
61. Pelz, H. J., et al. (2005). The genetic basis of resistance to anticoagulants in rodents. Genetics 170, 1839-1847
62. Piaget, J. (1978). Success and Understanding, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
63. Posner, G. J., Strike, K. A., Hewson, P. W., and Gertzog, W. A. (1982). Accommodation of a scientific conception: towards a theory of conceptual change. Sci. Educ. 66, 211-227
64. Poyart, C., Mugnier, P., Quesne, G., Berche, P., and Trieu-Cuot, P. (1998). A novel extended-spectrum TEM-type b-lactamase (TEM-52) associated with decreased susceptibility to moxalactam in Klebsiella pneumoniae. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 42, 108-113
65. Rost, S., et al. (2004). Mutations in VKORC1 cause warfarin resistance and multiple coagulation factor deficiency type 2. Nature 427, 537-541
66. Rost, S., Fregin, A., Hunerberg, M., Bevans, C. G., Muller, C. R., and Oldenburg, J. (2005). Site-directed mutagenesis of coumarin-type anticoagulant-sensitive VKORC 1, evidence that highly conserved amino acids define structural requirements for enzymatic activity and inhibition by warfarin. Thromb. Haemost. 94, 780-786
67. Rost, S., Pelz, H. J., Menzel, S., MacNicoll, A. D., Leo ́n, V., Song, K. J., Jakel, T., Oldenburg, J., and Muller, C. R. (2009). Novel mutations in the VKORC1 gene of wild rats and mice-a response to 50 years of selection pressure by warfarin? BMC Genet. 10, 4
68. Sadava, D., Heller, H. C., Orians, G. H., Purves, W. K., and Hillis, D. M. (2008). Life: The Science of Biology, Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates
69. Scott, P. H., Asoko, H. M., and Driver, R. H. (1991). Teaching for conceptual change: a review of strategies. In: Research in Physics Learning: Theoretical Issues and Empirical Studies, ed. R. Duit, F. Goldberg, and H. Niedderer, Kiel, Germany: IPN, 310-329
70. Shtulman, A. (2006). Qualitative differences between naïve and scientific theories of evolution. Cogn. Psychol. 2, 170-194
71. Sinatra, G. M., Brem, S. K., and Evans, E. M. (2008). Changing minds? Implications of conceptual change for teaching and learning about biological evolution. Evol. Educ. Outreach 1, 189-195
72. Smith, M. K., Wood, W. B., and Knight, J. K. (2008). The genetics concept assessment: a new concept inventory for gauging student understanding of genetics. CBE-Life Sci. Educ. 7, 422-430
73. Sumner, F. B. (1929). The analysis of a concrete case of intergradations between two subspecies. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 15, 110-120
74. Sundberg, M. D., and Dini, M. L. (1993). Science majors vs nonma jors: is there a difference? J. Coll. Sci. Teach. 23, 299-304
75. Sutter, N. B., et al. (2007). A single IGF1 allele is a major determinant of small size in dogs. Science 316, 112-115
76. Tanner, K., and Allen, D. (2005). Approaches to biology teaching and learning: understanding the wrong answers-teaching toward conceptual change. Cell Biol. Educ. 4, 112-117
77. Tishkoff, S. A., et al. (2007). Convergent adaptation of human lactase persistence in Africa and Europe. Nat. Genet. 39, 31-40
78. Umina, P. A., et al. (2005). A rapid shift in the classic clinal pattern in Drosophila reflecting climate change. Science 308, 691-693
79. Van Delden, W. (1984). The alcohol dehydrogenase polymorphism in Drosophila melanogaster: facts and problems. In: Population Biology and Evolution, ed. K. Wohrmann and V. Loeschcke, Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 127-142
80. Vosniadou, S. (2008). International Handbook of Research on Conceptual Change, New York: Routledge
81. Vosniadou, S., and Brewer, W. F. (1987). Theories of knowledge restructuring in development. Rev. Res. Educ. 37, 51-67
82. Weinreich, D. M., Delaney, N. F., DePristo, M. A., and Hartl, D. L. (2006). Darwinian evolution can follow only very few mutation paths to fitter proteins. Science 312, 111-114
83. Weisman, A. (1889) Essays upon Heredity, Vol. 1 and 2. www. esp.org/books/weismann/essays/facsimile/ (accessed 8 March 2010)
84. Wiley, A. S. (2008). Cow's milk consumption and health: an evolutionary perspective. In: Evolutionary Medicine and Health, ed. W. R. Trevathan, E. O. Smith, and J. J. McKenna, New York, Oxford University Press, 116-133