Curated OER
Final Exam Practice - General Biology
A 17-page practice final exam for a college-level introductory biology course is contained in this resource. Matching and short answer questions cover every topic that you would expect to teach during an advanced biology course including...
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The Clark Family Story: Tracing the Cause of Hemophilia
Ms. Strohfeldt did not omit anything when she designed this comprehensive lesson plan on DNA mutation and sex-linked traits. Begin with a pretest as an anticipatory set. Read a case history of the Clark family and the occurrence of...
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Proteins
As long as you have some support information to answer questions that may come up from students, this is an excellent PowerPoint to cover almost all aspects of protein structure and ionization. The sequence of slides has great images and...
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The Case of Regulation in Cells
After your biologists have learned about transcription, translation, and gene regulation, they work in a small group to create a poster of a system that serves as an analogy of the gene regulation process. They share their creations with...
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Teaching Biology Through Bioinformatics
Learn more about the processes assisted by Bioinformatic Tools. Your class will learn how to research primary biological databases and the complex data that can be analyzed and manipulated to provide information. This information will...
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Protein Puzzles
Students examine the concept of protein structure. They read an article, construct a three-dimensional model of an insulin protein, take a quiz, conduct Internet research, and answer discussion questions.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Protein Partnering and Function
A learning module with built-in interactive features where students can read about the differences between large and small molecules, build protein structures, and test their strength under different conditions. They will review polarity...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Biology: Introduction to Biology
College-level online biology course highlighting the fundamental principles of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and cell biology. Course features include video lectures, audio lectures, subtitles/transcripts, lecture notes,...
University of Arizona
Ua: Large Molecules Problem Set
Understandable lessons about numerous aspects about the composition, function, and interactions of proteins. Each starts with an interactive quiz and links to a tutorial.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Evolutionary Biology: Amino Acid
A discussion of the structure and types of amino acids, and of how they combine to form proteins. (Published: October 16, 2010)
Ohio State University
Ohio State University: Proteins and Nucleic Acids
This information can be used for exam review or as an introduction. It presents a good overview of the topics with charts, graphs, links, and a quiz.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How to Unboil an Egg
It's so obvious that it's practically proverbial: you can't unboil an egg. But actually, it turns out that you can- sort of. Eleanor Nelsen explains the process by which mechanical energy can undo what thermal energy has done. [4:10]
Other
World of Teaching: Protein Synthesis (Power Point)
This is a well structured presentation with lots of graphics on how proteins are formed from DNA and RNA.
Texas A&M University
Peer Curricula: Cells Are Us
Find five instructional units on cells: levels of organization, interacting with the outside world, creating energy for the cell, coding and translating instructions, and making protein "machinery" to do things. Each unit is broken down...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Enzyme Structure: Lesson 4
This lesson will describe that enzymes are made of proteins, and can be found in nature or can be synthesized synthetically. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Enzyme Structure."
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Sophia: Primary Structure of Proteins: Lesson 2
This lesson will explain the primary structure of a protein. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Primary Structure of Proteins."
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Sophia: Primary Structure of Proteins: Lesson 3
This lesson will explain the primary structure of a protein. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Primary Structure of Proteins."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Primary Structure of Proteins: Lesson 1
This lesson will explain the primary structure of a protein. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Primary Structure of Proteins."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Quaternary Structure of Proteins: Lesson 2
This lesson will explain the quaternary structure of a protein. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Quaternary Structure of Proteins."
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Sophia: Secondary Structure of Proteins
This lesson will explain the secondary structure of a protein.
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Sophia: Tertiary Structure of Proteins: Lesson 1
This lesson will explain the tertiary structure of a protein. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Tertiary Structure of Proteins."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Enzyme Structure: Lesson 2
This lesson will describe that enzymes are made of proteins, and can be found in nature or can be synthesized synthetically. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Enzyme Structure."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Biology: Macromolecules: Secondary Structures of Proteins
This lesson will explain the secondary structure of a protein.