3. Enhance
Augmented Reality (AR) activities created in Delightex significantly enhance the learning process by transforming abstract genetic concepts into clear, interactive, and visual experiences. By immersing students in simulations of DNA structure and mutation processes, AR supports deeper understanding and active exploration of how mutations occur and affect organisms.
Deepening Understanding
Through Delightex, students interact with 3D models of DNA strands and chromosomes, allowing them to observe how replication errors, insertions, deletions, and chromosomal rearrangements change genetic information. Visualising these processes helps learners understand cause–effect relationships in genetics, such as how a single nucleotide change can alter protein function or disrupt gene regulation (Alberts et al., 2015; Griffiths et al., 2019).
Unlike static textbook images, AR models can be rotated, zoomed in on, and manipulated, which supports spatial thinking and long-term retention of complex biological processes.