Genetics and evolution: an iOS application to supplement introductory courses in transmission and evolutionary genetics.

ABSTRACT: Students in college courses struggle to understand many concepts fundamental to transmission and evolutionary genetics, including multilocus inheritance, recombination, Hardy-Weinberg, and genetic drift. These students consistently ask for more demonstrations and more practice problems. With this demand in mind, the "Genetics and Evolution" app was designed to help students (and their instructors) by providing a suite of tools granting them the ability to: (1) simulate genetic crosses with varying numbers of genes and patterns of inheritance, (2) simulate allele frequency changes under natural selection and/ or genetic drift, (3) quiz themselves to reinforce terminology (customizable by any instructor for their whole classroom), *4) solve various problems (recombination fractions, Hardy-We

SUBMITTER: Myers RB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4025476 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature