| Title | Modeling the Mitochondrial DNA "Clock" |
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| Abstract | This activity is designed to help students understand the concept of a molecular clock and how the accumulation of mutations reflect the length of time two populations (or two species) have been geographically or reproductively separated from one another.
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| Author | Sandy Bornstein |
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| Unifying Concept | Evidence, models, and explanation |
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| Science and Technology | Understandings about science and technology |
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| Science as Inquiry | Understandings about scientific inquiry |
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| History and Nature of Science | |
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| Science in Personal and Social Perspectives | |
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| Life, Physical, Earth Sciences | Molecular basis of heredity, Biological evolution, Reproduction and heredity |
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