A podcast on how a focus on Mendel distorts students' understanding of genetics and how including Weldon might help "fix" it.

papers used: Mendel section from biofundamentals pp 212-214.

Jamieson & Radick (2017) Genetic Determinism in the Genetics Curriculum. Sci & Educ 26:1261–1290

Radick (2024) Your genes do not define you.

a podcast based on Brian Donovan's (2022) ending genetic essentialism through genetics education

And an "experimental" podcast on biological complexity and the role explainable AI in teaching students about biological systems


-for Teaching & Learning Biology


Podcasts generated by Notebook LM

very preliminary questions based on the podcasts (and the books)

biofundamentals Follow-on chapters for DEVO
   

Ch 1: Thinking scientifically about biological systems

Fundamental concepts & their application to biological systems

Ch 2: Life & its origins

Social interactions between cells

Ch 3: Evolutionary mechanisms & the diversity of life:
part 1 | part 2 | part 3

The role of model systems for studying metazoan development

Ch 4: Social evolution, sex & sexual selection

 

Ch 5: Getting molecular

CLUE Chemistry, Life,
the Universe & everything

Ch 6: Membranes & Boundaries

Chapter 1: Atoms

Ch 7: The molecular nature of the hereditary material: part 1 & part 2

Chapter 2: Electrons & orbitals

Ch 8: Peptide bonds, polypeptides and proteins

Chapter 3: Elements, bonding & physical properties

Ch 9: Organizing & expressing genes into regulatory networks

Ch 4: Heterogeneous compounds

Ch 10: Cellular topology & intracellular signaling

Ch 5: Systems thinking

Ch 11: Cellular reproduction in prokaryotes & horizontal gene transfer

Ch 6: Solutions

Chapter 12: Asexual & sexual reproduction in eukaryotes

Ch 7: A field guid to chemical reactions
part 1 Collsions and Reactions
part 2 Aqueous and RedOx Reactions

Ch 13: Generating mutations & becoming alleles

Ch 8: How far, how fast?

Ch 14: Somatic mutations & genome dynamics

Ch 9 : Reaction systems

Ch 15: Becoming Mendelian & recognizing non-Mendelian genetic behaviors

Organic Clue

Ch 16: Tools for studying genes & genomes

Stay tuned!

more to come.