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Modern Genetic Analysis Preface
Students' Study Aids

KEY CONCEPTS at the beginning of each chapter give an overview of the main principles to be covered in the chapter, stated in simple prose without genetic terminology. They provide a strong pedagogic direction for the reader.

Highlighted MESSAGES appear throughout each chapter to serve as convenient milestones at which the reader can pause and contemplate the material just presented.

Each chapter SUMMARY provides a short distillation of the chapter material and an immediate reinforcement of the concepts. Summaries are useful in text review, especially in preparing for exams.

At the end of each chapter, the student is asked to create a CONCEPT MAP. Concept maps grew out of the constructivist movement in education, which asserts that student learning is most effective when new information confronts previous understanding. The concept map provides a powerful method for resolving such confrontation and for visualizing concept integration.

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