Transmission and Population Genetics
Transmission and Population Genetics

Author: Benjamin A. Pierce

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2008-02-15

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9781429211185

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This new brief version of Benjamin Pierce’s Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, Third Edition, responds to a growing trend of focusing the introductory course on transmission and population genetics and covering molecular genetics separately.

Solving Problems in Genetics
Solving Problems in Genetics

Author: Richard Kowles

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-12-01

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1461302056

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Helping undergraduates in the analysis of genetic problems, this work emphasizes solutions, not just answers. The strategy is to provide the student with the essential steps and the reasoning involved in conducting the analysis, and throughout the book, an attempt is made to present a balanced account of genetics. Topics, therefore, center about Mendelian, cytogenetic, molecular, quantitative, and population genetics, with a few more specialized areas. Whenever possible, the student is provided with the appropriate basic statistics necessary to make some the analyses. The book also builds on itself; that is, analytical methods learned in early parts of the book are subsequently revisited and used for later analyses. A deliberate attempt is made to make complex concepts simple, and sometimes to point out that apparently simple concepts are sometimes less so on further investigation. Any student taking a genetics course will find this an invaluable aid to achieving a good understanding of genetic principles and practice.

Toward a Scientific Practice of Science Education
Toward a Scientific Practice of Science Education

Author: Marjorie Gardner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-03

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1136465766

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This volume supports the belief that a revised and advanced science education can emerge from the convergence and synthesis of several current scientific and technological activities including examples of research from cognitive science, social science, and other discipline-based educational studies. The anticipated result: the formation of science education as an integrated discipline.

Professional Development in Science Teacher Education
Professional Development in Science Teacher Education

Author: Pamela Fraser-Abder

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-21

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1135722056

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This book explores global issues in the professional development of science teachers, and considers classroom applications of teacher training with a comparative lens. The twelve studies collected in this volume span five continents and vastly differing models of teacher education. Carefully detailing the social and cultural contexts for the teaching of science, this is a guidebook for anyone concerned with equity and reform in professional development.

Learning to Design, Designing to Learn
Learning to Design, Designing to Learn

Author: Diane Pelkus Balestri

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780844817064

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Aims to emphasize the potential role technology can play in helping schools/colleges transform teaching and learning through design-based curricula. Practical observations/recommendations are made. The thesis of the book is that technology can help

Styles of Scientific Thought
Styles of Scientific Thought

Author: Jonathan Harwood

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1993-02-15

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 9780226318820

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In this detailed historical and sociological study of the development of scientific ideas, Jonathan Harwood argues that there is no such thing as a unitary scientific method driven by an internal logic. Rather, there are national styles of science that are defined by different values, norms, assumptions, research traditions, and funding patterns. The first book-length treatment of genetics in Germany, Styles of Scientific Thought demonstrates the influence of culture on science by comparing the American with the German scientific traditions. Harwood examines the structure of academic and research institutions, the educational backgrounds of geneticists, and cultural traditions, among many factors, to explain why the American approach was much more narrowly focussed than the German. This tremendously rich book fills a gap between histories of the physical sciences in the Weimar Republic and other works on the humanities and the arts during the intellectually innovative 1920s, and it will interest European historians, as well as sociologists and philosophers of science.