For his Biology Honors contract project, Brandon Cooper, senior biotechnology major, created a classroom activity that has students use traditional structure-function relationships to make a cladogram that shows the evolutionary relationships between organisms within the same domain. The students will then use bioinformatics tools to make an evolutionary tree using the same organisms, and compare the results. The activity will be used in BIO 114 General Biology II: Structure and Function of Organisms to introduce students to bioinformatics and get them ready to use these tools in upper level biology courses. Brandon completed this project under the guidance of Dr. Susan Youngren in his BIO 355 Advanced Techniques in Molecular Biology course and will earn Honors in Biology when he graduates in May 2009.
Bioinformatics project in Biology Honors Program
Dec 11th, 2008 by meredithdurmowicz