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Aygen Ergen, Salih Ofluoglu (Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, TURKEY)
Students often have difficulties in understanding cellular dynamic processes such as diffusion, random molecular motion, and molecular binding events in undergraduate molecular biology education. The purpose of this study was to examine the educational effectiveness of three dimensional animations at different levels of visual complexity and to determine the most appropriate visualization techniques to depict cellular and molecular dynamics. In the present study, two scientifically accurate animations that represent the interaction of a zinc finger protein and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) at different levels of visual complexity were used to test students’ processing of information. Students were tested before and after the display of animation. The aim of the pre- test is to determine the level of prior knowledge of students whereas the aim of the post-test to assess educational effectiveness of animations. A statistics software and programming language R 3.6.0 was used in data analysis. In order to determine whether there was a statistically significant difference between the pre-test and post-test scores of the samples, the Paired Sample t-Test which is one of the parametric test