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Cell Life: A Biology Game to Support Biology Classrooms

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Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 206))

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This paper describes a biology game headed to biology students. The game was developed to be a learning tool supporting biology classrooms. The players need to have the basic knowledge of a living cell and the game context involves: the cell constitution, the transport mechanisms, the metabolic reactions, the protein biosynthesis, the growth and the cell division. The game enables the students to dynamically interact with the cell environment and learn the concepts involved in the official programme (guidelines) of biology studied in the two final years of high school in the Portuguese educational system.

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  1. ISCTE, University Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Teresa Futscher de Deus

  2. ISCTE, University Institute of Lisbon & ADETTI-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal

    Pedro Faria Lopes

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  1. , Faculty of Science and Technology, University Fernando Pessoa, Praça 9 de Abril 349, Porto, 4249-004, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  2. , Instituto Superior de Estatística e, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Campolide, Lisboa, 1070-312, Portugal

    Ana Maria Correia

  3. Broomfield Road 9, Sheffield, S10 2SE, United Kingdom

    Tom Wilson

  4. Empirica GmbH, Oxfordstr. 2, Bonn, 53111, Germany

    Karl A. Stroetmann

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de Deus, T.F., Lopes, P.F. (2013). Cell Life: A Biology Game to Support Biology Classrooms. In: Rocha, Á., Correia, A., Wilson, T., Stroetmann, K. (eds) Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 206. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36981-0_109

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