Barcoding Life's Matrix: Translating Biodiversity Genomics into High School Settings to Enhance Life Science Education

PLoS Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Santschi, Linda ^a   Hanner, Robert H ^b,c   Ratnasingham, Sujeevan ^b   Riconscente, Michelle ^d   Imondi, Ralph ^a  

^a Integrated Bioscience Program   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; BARCODE OF LIFE DATA SYSTEMS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMEDICINE; CO1 GENE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA BARCODING; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EUKARYOTE; GENE; GENOMICS; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; MATK GENE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RBCL GENE; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; WORKSHOP;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; EDUCATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; SCHOOLS;

EID: 84873812897     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001471     Document Type: Article

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