A Cross-Curricular Molecular Genetics Lab in Embryology
K. Joy Karnas & Audrey J. Ettinger
Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2012, Volume 33
Abstract
In response to the need for additional interdisciplinary, research-based labs that facilitate student learning across the biology curriculum, a student research project was developed as collaboration between Developmental Biology and Molecular Genetics courses to examine the effect teratogens have on a developing embryo, using both qualitative macroscopic observations and quantitative study of differential gene expression using microarrays. While the entire lab works as a multi-week unit to illustrate experimental design, technical methodology, and data analysis, component activities could be used as independent lab exercises in a variety of lab courses including molecular genetics, developmental biology, neuroscience, and introductory biology.
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