This hands-on activity stimulates students to consider the close relationship between structure and function. This inquiry-type lab can be done as a group or cooperative learning experience using simple kitchen tools. The activity provides a fun ice-breaker activity for the first day of class, helps introduce students to the concept of science as a process, and demonstrates one aspect of evolution: evolution by mutation and descent with modification.
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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 11/1/2009Stock # jcst09_039_02_58Volume 039Issue 02