Curated OER
Transcription, Translation, and the Genetics of Microbes
Students construct various virus models using Fruit loops and Alphabits to represent nucleotides and molecules. They constructs capsomeres using shoes as the capsomeres and discuss various viruses.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dolan Dna Learning Center: Disease & Mutation: Tumor Growth
See how cell division is essential for healthy growth of an organism, and how complex genetic mechanisms have evolved to switch cell division on and off at the proper time for normal development. [0:50]
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dolan Dna Learning Center: Disease & Mutation: Dna Damage
See how mutations in DNA can affect human cells, and how these mutations can even be corrected by biochemical repair work. [1:05]
Other
Acadia University: Class Notes on Mutation
These class notes from a Microbiology course at Acadia University outline point mutations, frameshift mutations, mutagens, mutation rate, and mutant isolation. A good way to review already learned concepts.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 3.10 Mutation
Learn how mutations in genes can occur during DNA replication.