Students brought genetics-related news articles (or news podcast transcripts) and discuss them in small groups. Each group summarized the main points of the articles and presented them to the rest of the class.
Topics ranged from bacterial genetic engineering gone wrong to how certain genetic defects can make people less susceptible to cancer and diabetes (click here and here).
(a few other topics were DNA repair inked to genetic mutation, genes playing a role in choosing friends, contagious cancer affecting Tasmanian devils).
Although the foci of the articles were diverse, the trend was for students to find articles more related to molecular genetics than any other genetics field.
And, we were able to enjoy a warm(ish) weather outside!
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