a podcast on biological complexity and the role explainable AI in teaching students about biological systems -for Teaching & Learning Biology
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A podcast on how a focus on Mendel can distort students' understanding of genetics and how including Weldon might help "fix" it.
papers used: Genetics section of biofundamentals
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Jamieson & Radick (2017) Genetic Determinism in the Genetics Curriculum Sci & Educ
26:1261–1290
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Radick (2024) Your genes do not define you.
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a podcast based on Brian Donovan's (2022) ending genetic essentialism through genetics
education
Podcasts generated by Notebook LM (to be updated)
a short podcast describing chapter 5 of biofundamentals
preliminary Questions based on the podcasts (and the books)
| biofundamentals - August 2025 | Follow-on chapters for DEVO |
Ch 17: Fundamental concepts & their application to biological systems |
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Ch 2: Life & its origins |
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Ch 3: Evolutionary mechanisms & the diversity of life: |
The role of model systems for studying metazoan development |
Ch 5: Getting molecular |
CLUE Chemistry, Life, |
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 |
Ch 12: Asexual & sexual reproduction in eukaryotes |
Ch 7: A field guid to chemical reactions |
Ch 8: How far, how fast? |
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Ch 9 : Reaction systems |
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Stay tuned! |
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Ch 16: Tools for studying genes & genomes |
more to come.