Case Study of Poll Everywhere with Katherine Preston
Channel: humbiomovies
Date: 2020-07-13

On the last class of the Fall of 2018, Dr. Preston and Professors Sherlock and Baker reviewed their Humbio Core course (humbio2a+2b) by engaging in a thought experiment.  They asked their students, in a series of PollEv polls, which they could also answer by raising their hands in the lecture hall:  what would we need to de-extinguish a wooly mammoth?  

This required students to recall what they had learned about genetics, reliability of cloning, CRISPR-Cas9, embryo implantation in a gestational mother, the viability of a herd in a degraded arctic environment, and even the political and economic feasibility of the ongoing experiment to restore the taiga in Siberia known as the "Pleistocene Park".