Looking for the Forest and the Trees : Exercises to Provoke Abstract Thinking
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©2013 Author(s). Published by the American Society for Microbiology. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the a Creative Commons Attribution – Noncommercial – Share Alike 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use and distribution, provided the original work is properly cited. Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biological Sciences, Connant Science Building – Room 390, Bridgewater State University, 131 Summer Street, Bridgewater, MA 02325. Phone: 508-531-1729. Fax: 508-531-1785. E-mail: [email protected]. INTRODUCTION
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