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THE AMERICAN BIOLOGYTEACHER VOLUME63, NUMBER 6 * AUGUST 2001 '''- Downloaded from http://online.ucpress.edu/abt/article-pdf/63/6/395/50130/4451138.pdf by guest on 29 September 2021 'I ./'' /'/ F1 - ='/I ^ mE Downloaded from http://online.ucpress.edu/abt/article-pdf/63/6/395/50130/4451138.pdf by guest on 29 September 2021 lel}Level| 201 Biology Titles g Annelids * Classification of Living Things * Invertebrates 2001 Biology Upgrades * DNA: The Molecule t W | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~Food Chains & Webs) THE AMERICAN BfOLOGYEACHER VOLUME63, NUMBER6 * AUGUST2001 Guest Editorial Bad Teaching: It's Not Just for the Classroom Anymore Randy Moore MurrayJensen Jay Hatch....................... 389 Articles Biology in silico: The Bioinformatics Revolution The Human GenomeProject is forging an alliance betweenbiology and Downloaded from http://online.ucpress.edu/abt/article-pdf/63/6/395/50130/4451138.pdf by guest on 29 September 2021 computersthat promisesto revolutionizeour understandingof genetics. Mark Bloom . ............................................... 397 Effect of a Curriculum Containing Creation Stories on Attitudes about Evolution Researchsuggests that a conceptualchange approach to evolution is more effectivethan traditionalinstruction. Dorothy Matthews ........................................... 404 Improving Students' Questions in Inquiry Labs ABOUTOUR COVER How our laboratoryand classroompractices may inhibit or promote While walking through a forest in students'ability to ask high-level,open-ended questions. the Sheep River Valley, located in Gili Marbach-Ad LarkA. Claassen ............................. 410 the foothills of western Alberta, about a one-hour drive southwest How-To-Do-Its of Calgary, photographer Mark A Classroom Demonstration of Temperature & Wind Effects Degner and a friend found the cav- on Plant Transpiration ity nest of a pair of Northern Malcolm McCallum .......................................... 420 Flickers (Colaptes auv-atus) in an Investigating Evolutionary Aspen tree. The young had already Questions Using Online Molecular Databases hatched and the parents were fly- Evaluateevolutionary relationships of vertebratesusing an Internet ing back and forth, bringing food proteindatabase. to them. They returned later in the Mary N. Puterbaugh J. Gordon Burleigh........................ 422 day and set up a blind a short dis- Relating Enzyme Function to Concepts of Dominance & Recessiveness tance from the Aspen. The male, An exerciseto link conceptsof dominancelrecessivenesswith enzyme shown in the photo, would often action and phenotypeexpression. land in the top of a broken tree Janet Lanza Camille Cress ...................... 432 after bringing food to the nest. A DNA Fingerprint Simulation: Different, Simple, Effective The Northern Flicker is found Scientific"who-dunnit" gets studentsout of their seats and learning across North America and there are about DNA two races: the yellow-shafted shown profiling. here, and the red-shafted. The two Eileen Reed ................................................. 437 races regularly hybridize and inter- mediates are commonly found. Departments Letters ....................................................... 392 Degner captured the image with a Nikon FE-2 camera and a Nikkor Biology Today 300m f4 lens on a tripod using WhereIs Biology? Fujichrome 100 ISO film. He is a Maura C. Flannery, Department Editor .......................... 442 Biology Instructor and the Biology Index to Advertisers .......................... 446 Laboratory Supervisor at Grant MacEwan College, City Centre Classroom Technology Reviews Campus, in Edmonton, Alberta. Rachel Hays, Jose Vazquez, Department Editors................... 448 He teaches Diversity and Environ- Book Reviews mental Biology lectures and Cell Rita Hoots, Editor................................. 452 Biology, Diversity, Ecology and Department Vertebrate Biology labs. 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