DNA→RNA: What do students think the arrow means?

CBE Life Sciences Education

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 338-348

  Kate Wright, L ^a   Nick Fisk, J ^a   Newman, Dina L ^a  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EDUCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT; THINKING;

DNA; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA; STUDENTS; THINKING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84901844174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19317913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1187/cbe.CBE-13-09-0188     Document Type: Article

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