General Botany of the Angiosperms in high school: a comparative analysis of textbooks [PDF]
Much of the textbooks content in Brazil is related to the historical period lived. With the advancement in the field of scientific research, the textbooks have become key pieces in the transfer/adaptation of this knowledge for the basic levels of ...
Lucas Cardoso Marinho+2 more
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Community content building for evolutionary biology: Lessons learned from LepTree and Encyclopedia of Life [PDF]
Online resources to aid large-scale ecological and evolutionary biology are beginning to take root, only a decade behind fields such as genomics and molecular biology.
Cynthia Parr, Dana Campbell, John Park
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Development of web-based general biology content on the GEN-BIO platform [PDF]
The development of valid online learning media is currently very necessary in supporting the biology learning process. A high percentage of students had misconceptions about general biology material in biology education (75%), a high percentage of ...
Hidayati, Nuril, Prayitno, Trio Ageng
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Enhancing Scientific Communication Through an Undergraduate Biology and Journalism Partnership
Scientific terminology presents an obstacle to effective communication with nonscientific audiences. To overcome this obstacle, biology majors in a general microbiology elective completed a project involving two different audiences: a scientific audience
Johanna M. Schwingel
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Comparing Physical, Virtual, and Hybrid Flipped Labs for General Education Biology
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact on learning, attitudes, and costs in a redesigned general education undergraduate biology course that implemented web-based virtual labs (VLs) to replace traditional physical labs (PLs).
Ji Y Son+3 more
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Visualization and quantification of the skin microvasculature are important for studying the health of the human microcirculation. We correlated structural and pathophysiological changes of the dermal capillary-level microvasculature with age and blood ...
Michael Wang-Evers+11 more
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Acceptance of Evolution Increases with Student Academic Level: A Comparison Between a Secular and a Religious College [PDF]
Acceptance of evolution among the general public, high schools, teachers, and scientists has been documented in the USA; little is known about college students’ views on evolution; this population is relevant since it transits from a high-school/parent ...
Espinosa, Avelina+1 more
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Women are underrepresented in computational biology: An analysis of the scholarly literature in biology, computer science and computational biology. [PDF]
While women are generally underrepresented in STEM fields, there are noticeable differences between fields. For instance, the gender ratio in biology is more balanced than in computer science. We were interested in how this difference is reflected in the
Kevin S Bonham, Melanie I Stefan
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Biological Mechanisms Underlying Physical Fitness and Sports Performance: An Editorial
In general, the concept of a mechanism in biology has three distinct meanings [...]
Georgian Badicu+2 more
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In the process of captive breeding and reintroduction of endangered animal species, it is crucial to minimize familial bias in reproductive success during the reintroduction phase to preserve genetic diversity. In this study, we attempted to identify the familial lineage of individuals of the endangered bagrid fish Tachysurus ichikawai born at the ...
Hinano Mizuno+5 more
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