Interactive Genetics CD-ROM

Lianna Johnson and John Merriam, University of California - Los Angeles

ISBN: 0-7380-1546-6
Net Price: $16.00

This CD-ROM contains tutorials, interactive problems and self-tests. For some topics a tutorial introduces the subject with animations and illustrations of basic genetic concepts required to solve the problems. Additional concepts are introduced through interactive problems, which take the student in a step-wise manner through a complex problem. Recognizing the errors students most frequently make and where they have conceptual difficulties, the authors have provided tailored feedback to predictable classes of wrong answers.

Interactive Genetics contains:

Tutorials

• Animations and videos to explain molecular processes and experiments.

Interactive problems

• Step-by-step problem solving
• Specific feedback to predictable wrong answers
• Major concepts introduced through problems

Simulations

• Allow students to design experiments
• Student-generated data is owned by student
• Immediate results allows focus to be on data interpretation

Self Tests

• Quizzes contain a large number of short answer problems