“Why Do We Have to Learn This Stuff?”—A New Genetics for 21st Century Students

Rosemary J. Redfield

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001356

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“Why Do We Have to Learn This Stuff?”—A New Genetics for 21st Century Students

Rosemary J. Redfield

* E-mail: redfield@zoology.ubc.ca

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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“Why Do We Have to Learn This Stuff?”—A New Genetics for 21st Century Students

Rosemary J. Redfield

Published: July 3, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001356

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And a related paper

Posted by redfield on 27 Jul 2012 at 19:11 GMT

Many of the points I make were made by Mike Dougherty in 2009, in a paper titled Closing the Gap: Inverting the Genetics Curriculum to Ensure and Informed Public: http://www.cell.com/AJHG/...(09)00208-0

No competing interests declared.

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