Getting Wrinkly Spreaders to demonstrate evolution in schools

Andrew J. Spiers

doi:10.1016/j.tim.2014.03.007

Getting Wrinkly Spreaders to demonstrate evolution in schools

Andrew J. Spiers

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Abstract

Understanding evolution is crucial to modern biology,but most teachers would assume that practical demonstrations of evolution in school laboratories are unfeasible. However, perhaps they have not heard of ‘evolution in a test tube’ and how Wrinkly Spreaders can form the basis for both practical demonstrations of bacterial evolution and further work.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	301-303
Number of pages	3
Journal	Trends in Microbiology
Volume	22
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2014.03.007
Publication status	Published - Jun 2014

Keywords

Education
Experimental evolution
Microbiology
Microcosms

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