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Sketchy Understandings: Drawings Reveal Where Students May Need Additional Support to Understand Scale and Abstraction in Common Representations of DNA
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Crystal Uminski; L. Kate Wright; Dina L. Newman – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2025
Visual representations in molecular biology tend to follow a set of shared conventions for using certain shapes and symbols to convey information about the size and structure of nucleotides, genes, and chromosomes. Understanding how and why biologists use these conventions to represent DNA is a key part of visual literacy in molecular biology.…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Molecular Biology, Freehand Drawing, Undergraduate Students