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quicksilversquared · 1 year ago

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For the most part, I've gotten fewer weird-ass answers from students on their worksheets as the semester goes on. And then this week, we had DNA and Inheritance, and there was a question about dominant traits and does dominant allele mean higher fitness- and let me tell you, that question's answers are a mess. Some I'm just staring at and going....there are a lot of words here that are completely wrong, do I give any points?

anyway the course coordinator is going to be getting feedback on that question tomorrow, it was worded poorly and we needed more slides to cover it more clearly. Some students did perfectly, but others are. uh. Didn't get the memo.

#it is so hard to anticipate what people are going to struggle with #there's a lot that is just basic common stuff to me and it is apparently not common knowledge #was never going to be able to anticipate people un-crossing the test tube tongs #and trying to remove hot test tubes from a water bath with the curved sides of the tongs pointed in #or people making a prediction about what extracted strawberry DNA would look like #and saying 'it will be a double helix'#y'all thought that you would be able to see the double helix with your bare eyes?

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