Using Systems and Systems Thinking to Unify Biology Education

• DOI: 10.1187/cbe.21-05-0118
• Publication Date: 2022-05-02T15:28:50Z
• Authors: Jennifer Momsen; Elena Bray Speth; Sara Wyse; Tammy Long
• Keywords: Thinking; Systems Analysis; General Essays and Articles; 4. Education; 0502 economics and business; 05 social sciences; Humans; Students; Biology; 0503 education; Problem Solving

Systems, as a core and crosscutting concept in science, can serve as a unifying paradigm for biology that helps frame how biology is taught. This article presents the biology systems-thinking (BST) framework, which describes the requisite skills for thinking about biological systems.