Teaching Guide: BLAST Virtual Lab
This teaching guide helps educators to integrate the BLAST Virtual Lab simulation into an advanced high school biology lesson. Students develop skills in data analysis and use a bioinformatics database to compare 3 unknown gene sequences. They evaluate molecular data to predict evolutionary relationships. The lesson emphasizes evidence-based reasoning and model use.
Topics
- AP
- AP Biology
- AP Bio
- next generation science standards
- NGSS
- molecular data
- phylogenetic tree
- phylogeny
- fossil
- morphology
- DNA
- protein
- cladogram
- BLAST
- bioinformatics
- conserved sequence
- shared traits
- derived traits