Case Study: Using A Case Study Article on Earwax to Enhance Understanding and Interest in Genetics | NSTA

Case Study: Using A Case Study Article on Earwax to Enhance Understanding and Interest in Genetics

Journal of College Science Teaching—July/August 2012

This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. In this month’s issue the case study article explains that humans either have wet or dry earwax and highlights that the gene that determines the type an individual has been recently identified.

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