Genetic apps: raising more questions than they answer?

Short Answer Questions or Modified Essay Questions— More than a Technical Issue

Purpose, The present article was built on the assumption that the form of an examination may influence learning, and may also reflect different kinds of knowledge. The aim of the study was to evaluate whether the results of an examination differ when short answer questions (SAQ) or modified essay questions (MEQ) are used. Method, Forty-nine students in the internal medicine course in Gothenburg...

Ganglionitis and genetic cardiac arrhythmias: more questions than answers.

Human papillomavirus: every answer raises more questions.

G human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection worldwide.1 Because it is so prevalent in men and women, is easily transmitted by skin-to-skin contact, and is often asymptomatic and undetectable, it is difficult to effectively prevent transmission despite our best efforts, including promotion of abstinence, condom use, and circumcision.2 This difficulty is very im...

Reply & Supply: Efficient crowdsourcing when workers do more than answer questions

Crowdsourcing works by distributing many small tasks to large numbers of workers, yet the true potential of crowdsourcing lies in workers doing more than performing simple tasks-they can apply their experience and creativity to provide new and unexpected information to the crowdsourcer. One such case is when workers not only answer a crowdsourcer's questions but also contribute new questions fo...

Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance: more questions than answers.

Epigenetic modifications are widely accepted as playing a critical role in the regulation of gene expression and thereby contributing to the determination of the phenotype of multicellular organisms. In general, these marks are cleared and re-established each generation, but there have been reports in a number of model organisms that at some loci in the genome this clearing is incomplete. This ...