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NOVA: Epigenetics video

Link: https://youtu.be/Xjq5eEslJhw?si=nPmKqvfbeA8VhmWZ

Clip from NOVA special explaining epigenetics.

Course content area – Explaining behavior/Tinbergen’s 4 questions

Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)

Campus – Hunter College

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DNA and mutations

https://evolution.berkeley.edu/dna-and-mutations/

A series of webpages covering how DNA is the molecular basis of evolution and the role of mutations in evolution. Webpages are part of the Understanding Evolution website from UC Museum of Paleontology.

Assigned as a pre-class reading for a class on Raw Material – DNA, genes, variation, inheritance, epigenetics

Course content area – Raw Material – DNA, genes, variation, inheritance, epigenetics

Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)

Campus – Hunter College

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Gene Switches

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/genes/fate-nf.html

NOVA article (PBS) by Nipam Patel covers the role of gene switches in evolution including Hox genes.

Assigned as a pre-class reading for a class on Raw Material – DNA, genes, variation, inheritance, epigenetics

Course content area – Raw Material – DNA, genes, variation, inheritance, epigenetics

Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)

Campus – Hunter College

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Genes & Behavior Textbook Segment

https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Psychology/Biological_Psychology/Biopsychology_(OERI)_-_DRAFT_for_Review/03%3A_Evolution_Genes_and_Behavior/3.09%3A_Genes_and_Behavior

Segment 3.9 Genes and Behavior from a Biopsychology open textbook.

Course content area – Raw Material – DNA, genes, variation, inheritance, epigenetics

Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)

CUNY College – Hunter College