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Using animations to teach biological processes and principles

Well-designed animations can help students to focus on the underlying principles and processes in biology rather than relying on rote memorization. We present question-driven, terminology-free, “candymation” videos for teaching the concepts behind mitosis and meiosis as an example.

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Autores principales: Kalas, Pamela, Redfield, Rosemary J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9671341/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36395079
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001875
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spelling pubmed-96713412022-11-18 Using animations to teach biological processes and principles Kalas, Pamela Redfield, Rosemary J. PLoS Biol Community Page Well-designed animations can help students to focus on the underlying principles and processes in biology rather than relying on rote memorization. We present question-driven, terminology-free, “candymation” videos for teaching the concepts behind mitosis and meiosis as an example. Public Library of Science 2022-11-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9671341/ /pubmed/36395079 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001875 Text en © 2022 Kalas, Redfield https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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