Diagram and MicroSim Details

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 4
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to calculate (Bloom's L3: Apply) the total ATP yield per glucose from cellular respiration, accounting for each stage's contri...

Brewing Beer

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 5
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: Students will be able to compare (Bloom's L4: Analyze) lactic acid and alcoholic fermentation in terms of reactants, products, and organisms, and ex...

Glycolysis Pathway Simulator

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 6
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to describe (Bloom's L2: Understand) the inputs, outputs, and net energy yield of glycolysis, distinguishing the investment ph...

Krebs Cycle Explorer

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 5
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to explain (Bloom's L2: Understand) the inputs, outputs, and overall purpose of the Krebs cycle, and identify where NADH and F...

Chapter 9: Cell Signaling And Feedback

Total elements: 3

Feedback Loop Simulator

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 8
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: Students will be able to compare (Bloom's L4: Analyze) negative and positive feedback loops, predict how each type responds to a perturbation, and i...

Signal Transduction Pathway Overview

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 12
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to describe (Bloom's L2: Understand) the three stages of cell signaling — reception, transduction, response — and identify the...

cAMP Signaling Cascade

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 5
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to trace (Bloom's L3: Apply) the sequence of molecular events from hormone binding to a GPCR through the cAMP-PKA cascade to a...

Chapter 10: Cell Cycle Mitosis And Cancer

Total elements: 4

Cancer Mutation Simulator

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 7
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: Students will be able to analyze (Bloom's L4: Analyze) how accumulating mutations in proto-oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes progressively disrup...

Cell Cycle Checkpoint Control

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 5
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to explain (Bloom's L2: Understand) how cyclin-CDK complexes and checkpoint proteins regulate cell cycle progression, and *pre...

Mitosis Stage Explorer

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 3
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to identify (Bloom's L1: Remember) each stage of mitosis by its chromosome appearance and explain (Bloom's L2: Understand) t...

The Stages of Mitosis Image

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 2
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to identify (Bloom's L1: Remember) each phase of the cell cycle and describe (Bloom's L2: Understand) the key events and app...

Chapter 11: Meiosis And Mendelian Genetics

Total elements: 6

Crossing Over Visualization

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 2
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to explain (Bloom's L2: Understand) how crossing over during prophase I generates recombinant chromatids carrying novel allele...

Dihybrid Cross Outcome Visualizer

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 5
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to analyze (Bloom's L4: Analyze) the phenotypic outcomes of a dihybrid cross and compare expected ratios with observed propo...

Interactive Punnett Square Calculator

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 10
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: Students will be able to solve (Bloom's L3: Apply) monohybrid and dihybrid crosses using Punnett squares and calculate expected genotypic and phen...

Meiosis Stages Explorer

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 3
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to identify (Bloom's L1: Remember) each stage of meiosis I and meiosis II, and describe (Bloom's L2: Understand) the key eve...

Mendel-to-Meiosis Concept Map

Status: Specified
Type: Unknown
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 1
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Students will be able to analyze (Bloom's L4: Analyze) the connections between meiotic events and Mendelian inheritance principles, and explain ho...

Test Cross Simulator

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 8
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: Students will be able to apply (Bloom's L3: Apply) the test cross procedure to determine an unknown genotype, and evaluate (Bloom's L5: Evaluate) ...

Chapter 12: Non Mendelian And Chromosomal Genetics

Total elements: 6

Blood Type Explorer

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 6
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to apply (Bloom's L3: Apply) knowledge of multiple alleles and codominance to predict offspring blood types from parental cros...

Genetic Linkage and Recombination Mapper

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 4
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to calculate (Bloom's L3: Apply) recombination frequencies from offspring data and construct (Bloom's L6: Create) a genetic ...

Interactive Pedigree Analyzer

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 7
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to analyze (Bloom's L4: Analyze) pedigree diagrams to determine the most likely mode of inheritance, and evaluate (Bloom's L...

Nondisjunction in Meiosis Visualizer

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 4
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: Students will be able to differentiate (Bloom's L4: Analyze) between nondisjunction in meiosis I versus meiosis II and predict the chromosomal com...

Polygenic Trait Distribution Visualizer

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 6
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: Students will be able to explain (Bloom's L2: Understand) how increasing the number of contributing genes transforms a discrete phenotype distributi...

X-Linked Inheritance Simulator

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 4
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to apply (Bloom's L3: Apply) X-linked inheritance patterns to predict offspring genotypes and phenotypes, and analyze (Bloom...

Chapter 13: Central Dogma Replication And Protein Synthesis

Total elements: 4

DNA Replication Fork Explorer

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 5
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to identify (Bloom's L1: Remember) the enzymes at the replication fork and explain (Bloom's L2: Understand) why the leading ...

Gene Expression Pipeline

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 2
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to describe (Bloom's L2: Understand) each step of eukaryotic gene expression from transcription through mRNA processing to tra...

Genetic Code Table Explorer

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 6
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to use (Bloom's L3: Apply) the genetic code table to translate an mRNA sequence into an amino acid sequence, and explain (Bl...

Translation Step-Through Simulator

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 7
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: Students will be able to describe (Bloom's L2: Understand) the three stages of translation (initiation, elongation, termination) and trace (Bloom'...

Chapter 14: Mutations Gene Regulation And Biotechnology

Total elements: 4

Biotechnology Toolkit Workflow

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 1
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to organize (Bloom's L4: Analyze) the major biotechnology tools into a logical workflow and explain (Bloom's L2: Understand)...

Eukaryotic Gene Regulation Layers

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 1
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to organize (Bloom's L4: Analyze) the multiple layers of eukaryotic gene regulation from chromatin level to post-translational...

Mutation Effects Comparator

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 7
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: Students will be able to differentiate (Bloom's L4: Analyze) among silent, missense, nonsense, and frameshift mutations by observing how each type a...

Operon Regulation Simulator

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 11
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to compare (Bloom's L4: Analyze) inducible (lac) and repressible (trp) operon regulation, and predict (Bloom's L3: Apply) th...

Chapter 15: Evidence For Evolution

Total elements: 3

Comparative Anatomy Explorer

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 3
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: Students will be able to differentiate (Bloom's L4: Analyze) among homologous, analogous, and vestigial structures, and explain how each type prov...

Endosymbiosis Model

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 5
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to explain (Bloom's L2: Understand) the endosymbiotic theory and evaluate (Bloom's L5: Evaluate) the molecular and structura...

Timeline of Evolutionary Thought

Status: Specified
Type: Unknown
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 0
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Students will be able to identify (Bloom's L1: Remember) the key scientists and publications in the history of evolutionary thought, and explain (...

Chapter 16: Population Genetics And Hardy Weinberg

Total elements: 3

Genetic Drift Simulator

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 9
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to analyze (Bloom's L4: Analyze) how population size affects the rate and magnitude of genetic drift, and compare (Bloom's L...

Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium Calculator

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 8
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: Students will be able to apply (Bloom's L3: Apply) the Hardy-Weinberg equations to calculate allele and genotype frequencies, and evaluate (Bloom'...

Selection Modes Visualizer

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 6
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: Students will be able to compare (Bloom's L4: Analyze) the effects of stabilizing, directional, and disruptive selection on a population's phenotype...

Chapter 17: Speciation Phylogenetics And Macroevolution

Total elements: 2

Interactive Cladogram Builder

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 4
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to construct (Bloom's L6: Create) a cladogram from a character matrix and interpret (Bloom's L2: Understand) evolutionary re...

Speciation Pathways Comparison

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 4
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: Students will be able to compare (Bloom's L4: Analyze) allopatric and sympatric speciation, and explain (Bloom's L2: Understand) how geographic ba...

Chapter 18: Population Ecology And Life History

Total elements: 2

Population Growth Model Explorer

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 13
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: Students will be able to compare (Bloom's L4: Analyze) exponential and logistic growth models and predict (Bloom's L3: Apply) population size chan...

Survivorship Curves Comparator

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 4
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: Students will be able to interpret (Bloom's L2: Understand) survivorship curves and classify (Bloom's L4: Analyze) organisms into Type I, II, or I...

Chapter 19: Community Ecology And Species Interactions

Total elements: 2

Ecological Succession Timeline

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 2
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: Students will be able to compare (Bloom's L4: Analyze) primary and secondary succession and sequence (Bloom's L1: Remember) the stages from pionee...

Species Interactions Web

Status: Specified
Type: Unknown
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 0
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Students will be able to classify (Bloom's L4: Analyze) species interactions as predation, competition, mutualism, commensalism, or parasitism, and ...

Chapter 20: Ecosystem Ecology And Conservation

Total elements: 2

Biogeochemical Cycles Dashboard

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 5
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to compare (Bloom's L4: Analyze) the reservoirs and fluxes of the carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and water cycles, and *explain...

Energy Pyramid Explorer

Status: Specified
Type: Microsim
Bloom's Taxonomy: Not specified
UI Elements: 12
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Students will be able to calculate (Bloom's L3: Apply) the energy available at each trophic level using the 10% rule and explain (Bloom's L2: Unde...