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Laboratory Studies In Animal Diversity, Lee Kats, Cleveland Hickman, Susan Keen
Laboratory Studies In Animal Diversity, Lee Kats, Cleveland Hickman, Susan Keen
Lee Kats
Laboratory Studies in Animal Diversity offers students hands-on experience in learning about the diversity of life. It provides students the opportunity to become acquainted with the principal groups of animals and to recognize the unique anatomical features that characterize each group as well as the patterns that link animal groups to each other.
Curricular Reform And Inquiry Teaching In Biology: Where Are Our Efforts Most Fruitfully Invested, Briana Timmerman, Denise Strickland, Susan Carstensen
Curricular Reform And Inquiry Teaching In Biology: Where Are Our Efforts Most Fruitfully Invested, Briana Timmerman, Denise Strickland, Susan Carstensen
Briana Eileen Timmerman
No abstract provided.
The Interplay Of Host Morphology And Symbiont Microhabitat In Coral Aggregations, B. Helmuth, Briana Timmerman, K. Sebens
The Interplay Of Host Morphology And Symbiont Microhabitat In Coral Aggregations, B. Helmuth, Briana Timmerman, K. Sebens
Briana Eileen Timmerman
No abstract provided.
Peer Review In An Undergraduate Biology Curriculum: Effects On Students’ Scientific Reasoning, Writing And Attitudes, Briana Timmerman
Peer Review In An Undergraduate Biology Curriculum: Effects On Students’ Scientific Reasoning, Writing And Attitudes, Briana Timmerman
Briana Eileen Timmerman
Scientific reasoning and writing skills are ubiquitous processes in science and therefore common goals of science curricula, particularly in higher education. Providing the individualized feedback necessary for the development of these skills is often costly in terms of faculty time, particularly in large science courses common at research universities. Past educational research literature suggests that the use of peer review may accelerate students’ scientific reasoning skills without a concurrent demand on faculty time per student. Peer review contains many elements of effective pedagogy such as peer-peer collaboration, repeated practice at evaluation and critical thinking, formative feedback, multiple contrasting examples, and …
Total Cadmium, Copper And Zinc In Two Dreissenid Mussels, Dreissena Polymorpha And Dreissena Bugensis, At The Outflow Of Lake Ontario, Carolyn Johns, Briana Timmerman
Total Cadmium, Copper And Zinc In Two Dreissenid Mussels, Dreissena Polymorpha And Dreissena Bugensis, At The Outflow Of Lake Ontario, Carolyn Johns, Briana Timmerman
Briana Eileen Timmerman
No abstract provided.
Locomotor Loading Mechanics In The Hindlimbs Of Tegu Lizards (Tupinambis Merianae): Comparative And Evolutionary Implications, K. Megan Sheffield, Michael T. Butcher, S. Katharine Shugart, Jennifer C. Gander, Richard W. Blob
Locomotor Loading Mechanics In The Hindlimbs Of Tegu Lizards (Tupinambis Merianae): Comparative And Evolutionary Implications, K. Megan Sheffield, Michael T. Butcher, S. Katharine Shugart, Jennifer C. Gander, Richard W. Blob
Megan Sheffield
Skeletal elements are usually able to withstand several times their usual load before they yield, and this ratio is known as the bone’s safety factor. Limited studies on amphibians and non-avian reptiles have shown that they have much higher limb bone safety factors than birds and mammals. It has been hypothesized that this difference is related to the difference in posture between upright birds and mammals and sprawling ectotherms; however, limb bone loading data from a wider range of sprawling species are needed in order to determine whether the higher safety factors seen in amphibians and non-avian reptiles are ancestral …
Loading Mechanics Of The Femur In Tiger Salamanders (Ambystoma Tigrinum) During Terrestrial Locomotion, K. Megan Sheffield, Richard W. Blob
Loading Mechanics Of The Femur In Tiger Salamanders (Ambystoma Tigrinum) During Terrestrial Locomotion, K. Megan Sheffield, Richard W. Blob
Megan Sheffield
Salamanders are often used as representatives of the basal tetrapod body plan in functional studies, but little is known about the loads experienced by their limb bones during locomotion. Although salamanders’ slow walking speeds might lead to low locomotor forces and limb bone stresses similar to those of non-avian reptiles, their highly sprawled posture combined with relatively small limb bones could produce elevated limb bone stresses closer to those of avian and mammalian species. This study evaluates the loads on the femur of the tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) during terrestrial locomotion using three- dimensional measurements of the ground reaction force …