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Kevin Patton responds to a question from Krista Rompolski about how often we should test our students. Updates on hair color genetics and how the somatosensory cortex is mapped. And what about those preview episodes?
00:41 | Hair color inheritance
07:07 | Sponsored by AAA
07:21 | Building body maps
10:14 | Preview episodes
11:39 | Sponsored by HAPS
12:11 | Featured: Test frequency in the A&P course
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1 | Hair color inheritance
3.5 minutes
New information about the inheritance of red hair shows that there's a lot more to it than just having two copies of the red-hair version of the gene MC1R. A lot more. Maybe its not just polygenic, but perhaps omnigenic.
2 | Sponsored by AAA
0.5 minute
The searchable transcript for this episode, as well as the captioned audiogram of this episode, are sponsored by The American Association of Anatomists (AAA) at anatomy.org
3 | Building body maps3 minutes
It turns out that all that kicking inside the uterus during the last trimester of pregnancy has a role in the mapping of our body in the somatosensory cortex.
4 | Preview episodes
1.5 minutes
If you haven't been listening to the preview episodes released shortly before each full episode, try them out! Then let me know what you think.
5 | Sponsored by HAPS0.5 minutes
The Human Anatomy & Physiology Society (HAPS) is a sponsor of this podcast. Did you know there's a one-day regional HAPS conference in March? Check it out. You can help appreciate their support by clicking the link below and checking out the many resources and benefits found there.
Anatomy & Physiology Society | theAPprofessor.org/haps
6 | Test frequency in the A&P course
13.5 minutes
Listener Krista Rompolski calls in and asks Kevin for his opinion on the best frequency of tests for the undergraduate A&P course.
Here are some previous episodes outlining Kevin's testing practices (and why he does it that way):
Here's the episode in which The Learning Scientists talk about the value of retrieval practice
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