Abstract: In order to meet the needs of an innovative country construction in China, the most colleges and universities are actively exploring the innovation of teaching methods, to fit the needs of innovative talented individualized teaching and differentiated training. This paper proposes the importance of project-based teaching approach to culture innovative talents by comparing the biology teaching methods between Chinese and American universities and the trial implementation of project-based teaching method in domestic university biology courses. It also analyzes the characteristics of the project-based teaching method and and the problems of the current implementation of the project education in domestic universities. It provides some reference for the reform of biology undergraduate education in colleges and universities in China.

Key words: project-based teaching, teaching method, teaching characteristics, sino-US teaching