The Developmental Origins of Mythology: A Pandemic-Inspired Innovative Developmental Biology Laboratory Exercise
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From an experiential, hands-on perspective, the Developmental Biology Laboratory is easily amenable to a wide range of undergraduate-friendly experiments. Thus, pivoting virtual laboratory during COVID-19 pandemic required significant reconfiguring capture essence student-driven The innovative activity described here was inspired by nuggets truth contained within many mythological origin stories. Students were asked propose logical developmental process that could lead specific creature. In this article, mythology-based biology described, including its inspiration, instructions and support for students, sample work. Primary Image: How would Cerberus arise development? This figure depicts gastrulation-stage embryo on left three-headed dog right. If given creature, student will generate hypothesis explain what step(s) in development atypical yield dog.
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عنوان ژورنال: CourseSource
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2332-6530']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24918/cs.2023.21