Sketchy understandings: drawings reveal where students may need additional support to understand scale and abstraction in common representations of DNA

ABSTRACT 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...

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Main Authors: Crystal Uminski, L. Kate Wright, Dina L. Newman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2025-08-01
Series:Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jmbe.00070-25
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