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Integrated Biology and Undergraduate Science Education: A New Biology Education for the Twenty-First Century?

Jay B. Labov

*Center for Education and

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Ann H. Reid

Board on Life Sciences, National Research Council, Washington, DC 20001; and

^‡ Present address: American Academy of Microbiology, Washington, DC.

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, and

Keith R. Yamamoto

Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143

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Published Online:13 Oct 2017https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.09-12-0092

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