Students' understanding of external representations of the potassium ion channel protein, part I: Affordances and limitations of ribbon diagrams, vines, and hydrophobic/polar representations

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 349-356

  Harle, Marissa ^a   Towns, Marcy H ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Scholarship of teaching and learning; Tertiary education; Visual literacy

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; EDUCATION; HUMAN;

ANIMALS; BIOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; POTASSIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 84869795068     PISSN: 14708175     EISSN: 15393429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bmb.20641     Document Type: Article

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