TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Rn Ai: Slicing, Dicing and Serving Your Cells
RNA, the genetic messenger, makes sure the DNA recipe gives your cells exactly what they ordered. But sometimes that means inhibiting some other RNA that got the recipe wrong. This process is called RNA interference (RNAi), and it acts...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Forensic Science: Building Your Own Tool for Identifying Dna
When biologists want to separate different pieces of DNA, RNA, or proteins they use a technique called gel electrophoresis. In this science project you'll build a gel electrophoresis chamber and use it to discover how many components are...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Molecular Scissors
Ever used a pair of molecular scissors? Restriction enzymes are molecular scissors that cut DNA into pieces. Find out which enzymes will cut, and where by making a restriction map. Then you can figure out what will happen if you change...
University of Oxford (UK)
University of Oxford: Proteins and Nucleic Acids: Information Carriers
This chapter takes a look at proteins and nucleic acids as information carriers. Discover why the arrangement of atoms is of special importance.
US Department of Energy
Doe: Joint Genome Institute
This Department of Energy site has up-to-date information and statistics on the progress of all JGI genome sequencing projects.
Nature Research
Scitable: Gene Expression and Regulation
Investigate gene expression with this collection of resources that explains how DNA is expressed to make RNA, how genes are turned "on" and "off", and what must occur for transcription to happen. The webpage explores gene expression by...
PBS
Pbs Nova: Rna Virtual Lab
Play the role of a molecular engineer by solving RNA folding puzzles. Then take these new skills to Eterna, and design RNAs that could be at the heart of future life-saving therapies.
PBS
Pbs: Nova Labs: Rna Virtual Lab
In this lab play the role of a molecular engineer by solving RNA folding puzzles. Then take these new skills to Eterna to design RNAs that could be at the heart of future life-saving therapies.
PBS
Pbs: Nova Labs: Protein Synthesis in the Cellular Factory
Watch short animations, read informational text, and make hypotheses about different aspects of protein synthesis.
PBS
Pbs: Nova Labs: The Rna Origin of Life
Learn about the RNA world hypothesis through short animations, informational text, and interactive questions in this virtual lab.
Science Museum, London
Science Museum: Making the Modern World: Dna: Structure and Function
The learning module helps students gain a deeper understanding of the structure and function of DNA.
American Chemical Society
The Pharmaceutical Century: The 1950s
This extensive review of the advances in medical research and technology in the 1950s credits the Cold War and Cold War thinking with promoting scientific research and government funding of that research, including medical issues. Find...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Nucleic Acids
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Online activity covers the structure and function of nucleic acids. Students will learn about nucleotides, the different types of nitrogenous bases, and the...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Central Dogma of Molecular Biology
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This module states and explains the central dogma of molecular biology which was conceived by Francis Crick.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Rna
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] An overview of RNA, its three main types and their functions are discussed in this tutorial. After completing this activity, students will be able to compare DNA to...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: First Organic Molecules
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Take a look at the groundbreaking organic molecules formed millions of years ago. Study the RNA that might have been that first organic molecule. In Earth's early...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Nucleic Acids
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In ths module, discover the structure of a single nucleotide and how that structure leads to the overall structure of DNA and RNA.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Biology: Macromolecules: Nucleic Acids
An article investigating the structure of DNA and RNA.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Dna: The Human Body Recipe
As a class, students work through an example showing how DNA provides the "recipe" for making our body proteins. They see how the pattern of nucleotide bases (adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine) forms the double helix ladder shape of...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Nucleic Acids
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers the structure and function of nucleic acids.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Severo Ochoa Nobel Lecture
At this site download and read Severo Ochoa's Nobel Lecture entitled "Enzymatic synthesis of ribonucleic acid," which was originally given December 11, 1959. Lecture is available in pdf format.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dna From the Beginning: Rna Was the First Genetic Molecule
RNA is now considered to be the first molecule that could transmit information. This article looks at the scientists and experiments that developed this idea. Article includes animations, pictures, video, biographical information, and...
Nature Research
Scitable: Nucleic Acid Structure and Function
Get an in-depth look at the importance of DNA with this library of information on nucleic acid structure and function. Understand the structure and function of DNA by exploring topics in the chemical structure of DNA, organization of DNA...
University of Utah
University of Utah: Genetic Science Learning Center: The Basics and Beyond
This website offers a clear definition of the science of Genetics, highlighting DNA and genes. There is a neat, easy-to-understand animated tour of the basics and an opportunity to go inside an animated cell. Student can build a DNA...