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Of Phylogenies and Tumors: Cancer as a Model System to Teach Evolution
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The American Biology Teacher
The American Biology Teacher (2024) 86 (2): 62–70.
Published: 01 February 2024
... of the fittest,” and “descent with modification,” and with these historical biological catch phrases, one conjures up images of large animals battling it out on the Mesozoic plane. Rarely do teachers or students apply these same ideas to cancer and the evolution of somatic cells, which have accrued mutations...
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The Exposome: Making Chemical Exposures Relevant to Biology Instruction
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The American Biology Teacher
The American Biology Teacher (2018) 80 (8): 600–607.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Dana Brown Haine “Investigating the Exposome: Vinyl Chloride Exposure, DNA Damage & Repair” is a data interpretation and graphing activity that provides students a relevant context in which to explore and refine what they know about DNA structure and function, mutation, DNA repair, and cancer...
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New Approaches in Cancer Biology Can Inform the Biology Curriculum
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The American Biology Teacher
The American Biology Teacher (2018) 80 (3): 168–174.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Lynda Jones; Diana Gordon; Mary Zelinski Students tend to be very interested in medical issues that affect them and their friends and family. Using cancer as a hook, the ART of Reproductive Medicine: Oncofertility curriculum (free, online, and NIH sponsored) has been developed to supplement...
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An Instant Update on Telomeres and Telomerase
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The American Biology Teacher
The American Biology Teacher (2017) 79 (8): 615–620.
Published: 01 October 2017
... of Biology Teachers. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2017 telomeres telomerase aging cancer Both...
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The Luria-Delbrück Fluctuation Test as a Classroom Investigation in Darwinian Evolution
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The American Biology Teacher
The American Biology Teacher (2015) 77 (8): 614–619.
Published: 01 October 2015
... hypothesis. Meanwhile, it has become clear that post-exposure mutations do occur under some conditions of stress, and that stress-induced mutability is an important aspect of microbial physiology and cancer biology. Nevertheless, there is no definitive evidence that these post-exposure mutations...
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A Socratic Method for Surveying Students’ Readiness to Study Evolution
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The American Biology Teacher
The American Biology Teacher (2013) 75 (2): 102–105.
Published: 01 February 2013
.... Request permission to photocopy or reproduce article content at the University of California Press’s Rights and Permissions Web site at http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintinfo.asp . 2013 Acquired trait cancer cellular differentiation epigenetics gene pool genetic fitness somatic cells...
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Life after Death: An Activity to Investigate the Scientific, Legal, & Racial Issues of the Henrietta Lacks Story
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The American Biology Teacher
The American Biology Teacher (2011) 73 (6): 337–340.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Stacy Baker In this two-part activity, students examine living cervical cancer cells and chromosomes from a women named Henrietta Lacks who died over 60 years ago, but whose cancer cells continued to divide and grow even after her death. Students then debate the legal and bioethical issues...