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Comparative Biology of Test Species [PDF]
Environmental Health Perspectives, 1988 This paper assesses the capacity of animal models to predict human response to carcinogenic agents with consideration for the heterogeneity of humans. It is widely accepted that human susceptibility to toxic substances, including carcinogens, is highly variable.
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Test-Enhanced Learning and Incentives in Biology Education [PDF]
CBE—Life Sciences Education, 2020 This study examined the testing effect in a postsecondary biology course with low- and high-incentive treatments and measured student learning. Although exposure to exams predicted better learning, incentive level did not moderate this effect, an outcome that contradicted recent laboratory findings that higher incentives decreased the testing effect.
St. Clair, Bryn +4 more
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Reply to Veresoglou: Overdependence on “significance” testing in biology [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015 In PNAS, we explore the effects of interacting global change factors on the functioning of decomposer communities and show how biotic interactions influence the strength of soil carbon feedbacks to climate change (1). Veresoglou (2) highlights that the highly interactive nature of our multifactor experiment can increase the likelihood of type I errors (
Crowther, Thomas W. +7 more
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An In-House Biology Placement Test Improves Success in Majors Introductory Biology [PDF]
The American Biology Teacher, 2017 Biology placement tests (BPTs) have most often been used to determine whether well-prepared students can “test out” of foundational coursework at the college or university level. However, not all high school students are equally prepared for majors-level introductory Biology.
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Virus-bacteria diagnostic test (vbd-test) in identifying biology teacher’s misconception
Biosfer, 2019 Virus-Bacteria Diagnostic Test (VBD-Test) is three-tier diagnostic instrument for identification virus and bacteria topics. The purpose of this study was to determine the empirical validity of the VBD-Test and identify misconceptions of virus and bacteria topics in biology teachers in Malang using VBD-Test.
Zulfia, Firda Ama +2 more
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Using synthetic biology to make cells tomorrow's test tubes
Integrative Biology, 2016 The main tenet of physical biology is that biological phenomena can be subject to the same quantitative and predictive understanding that physics has afforded in the context of inanimate matter. However, the inherent complexity of many of these biological processes often leads to the derivation of complex theoretical descriptions containing a plethora ...
Garcia, Hernan G +2 more
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Chylomicrons: Advances in biology, pathology, laboratory testing, and therapeutics
Clinica Chimica Acta, 2016 The adequate absorption of lipids is essential for all mammalian species due to their inability to synthesize some essential fatty acids and fat-soluble vitamins. Chylomicrons (CMs) are large, triglyceride-rich lipoproteins that are produced in intestinal enterocytes in response to fat ingestion, which function to transport the ingested lipids to ...
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Group testing problems in experimental molecular biology
, 1995 In group testing, the task is to determine the distinguished members of a set of objects L by asking subset queries of the form ``does the subset Q of L contain a distinguished object?'' The primary biological application of group testing is for screening libraries of clones with hybridization probes.
Knill, Emanuel, Muthukrishnan, S.
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Using exoplanets to test the universality of biology [PDF]
Nature Astronomy, 2018 The detection of biosignatures on extrasolar planets would allow us to explore the predictability of evolution. What could we learn without directly obtaining a sample of life?
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