Deletion Mapping of Genetic " Fine Structure ” : Supplementing Ad Hoc Problem Solving Approaches with Algorithms and Heuristics

The transmission of a realistic analysis of the history of biology is exceedingly important in understanding the context of discoveries, and the personal, psychological, sociocultural, and political matrix in which ideas emerge and are propagated. Biology education typically duplicates the historically important process which led to the discovery of the phenomena under consideration. However, as valuable as these lessons are, the extension of historically employed methods of problem solving may not be most appropriate in the education of students in contemporary laboratory practice.