Sketchy understandings: Drawings reveal where students may need additional support to understand scale and abstraction in common representations of DNA
Crystal Uminski, Leslie Kate Wright, Dina L. Newman
Drawing-based interviews with 35 biology undergraduates show 77% made scale errors and 86% made abstraction errors when sketching nucleotides, genes, and chromosomes against the DNA Landscape framework.
Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education · May 12, 2025Peer-reviewedScientific Communication & Education✦ In-depth digest