title: Genetics and evolution: an iOS application to supplement introductory courses in transmission and evolutionary genetics.
abstract: Students in college courses struggle to understand many concepts fundamental to transmission and evolutionary genetics, including multilocus inheritance, recombination, Hardy-Weinberg, and genetic drift. These students consistently ask for more demonstrations and more practice problems. With this demand in mind, the "Genetics and Evolution" app was designed to help students (and their instructors) by providing a suite of tools granting them the ability to: (1) simulate genetic crosses with varying numbers of genes and patterns of inheritance, (2) simulate allele frequency changes under natural selection and/ or genetic drift, (3) quiz themselves to reinforce terminology (customizable by any instructor for their whole classroom), *4) solve various problems (recombination fractions, Hardy-Weinberg, heritability, population growth), and (5) generate literally an infinite number of practice problems in all of these areas to try on their own. Although some of these functions are available elsewhere, the alternatives do not have the ability to instantly generate new practice problems or achieve these diverse functions in devices that students carry in their pockets every day.
authors.affiliation: NorthgateArinso Human Resources, South Melbourne, VIC, 3205 Australia.
authors.forename: Russell B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Myers
authors.affiliation: Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708.
authors.forename: Brandon
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Millman
authors.affiliation: Biology Department, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 noor@duke.edu.
authors.forename: Mohamed A F
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Noor
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D003433:Crosses, Genetic; D005823:Genetics / Q000193:education*; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D040582:Inheritance Patterns; D012984:Software; D014495:Universities; D064878:Web Browser
keywords: app; education; simulations; terminology
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