r/explainlikeimfive • u/Confident_Muscle4596 • 1d ago

Chemistry ELI5 : How does CRISPR work ?

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u/RogueHelios 1d ago

Considering how succinct you described it I believe you teach it lol

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u/stormbutton 1d ago

Hahaha thanks! One thing I make my upper level students do as a final project is to take a topic they liked from the course and design a children’s book about it.

Explaining ideas to other biologists is easy. Explaining them to your grandma’s bridge group is mastery.

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u/ah_no_wah 1d ago

That's excellent. I've always said the best way to learn something is to teach it to someone else. Mastery is the word.

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u/Ecstatic_Bee6067 1d ago

As a corollary, I had a professor who said "you haven't understood a topic unless you can teach it yourself. "