title: The treasure of the humble: lessons from baker's yeast.
abstract: The study of model organisms is a powerful and proven experimental strategy for understanding biological processes. This paper describes an attempt to utilize advances in yeast molecular biology to enhance student understanding by presenting a more comprehensive view of several interconnected molecular processes in the overall functioning of an organism, and introducing the concept of the inverse problem as it relates to biology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Natural Resources, TERI University, New Delhi 110070, India. minraj@gmail.com
authors.forename: Ramakrishnan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sitaraman
mesh_terms: D001709:Biotechnology / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D023421:Models, Animal; D017145:Models, Educational; D018794:Problem-Based Learning; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires