Table 2.

GEP students completing a research experience utilize a range of cognitive skills from Bloom's taxonomy^a

Taxanomic skill	Utilization by GEP students
Remembering	Correctly use and define terms
Understanding	Explain steps required for gene annotation
Applying	Use BLAST to identify sequences similar to the sequence of interest
	Use FlyBase, UCSC Genome Browser, Gene Record Finder to retrieve information about a gene
Analyzing	Diagram possible gene structure
	Identify features (CDS, exons, repeats) in a genomic DNA sequence
Evaluating	Evaluate alternative gene models
	Select most likely gene model and support choice using multiple lines of evidence
Creating	Assemble a well-documented annotation for a region of the genome under study

^aBloom and Krathwohl, 1956; Anderson et al., 2001.