A Mutant Search-Caenorhabditis elegans aud Gene Discovery

摘要

With ～36,000 students enrolled, the University of North Texas is the fourth largest state university in Texas. To provide each of the >1800 undergraduate Biology majors the opportunity to participate in a discovery-based project, we developed "Worm Mutants," a worm mutant screen module for the required genetics laboratory, where students apply approaches used by geneticists to identify genes that regulate biological processes. The genetics lab meets once a week for 4 hours; however, the worm mutant module requires additional time.