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Unit Plan
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dna From the Beginning: Genes Can Be Moved Between Species

For Students 9th - 10th
Recombinant DNA technology has made it possible to gain insight into how genes work. This concept is further developed in this article with an animated explanation, art gallery, audio/video interviews, biographies, and an interactive...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Bacteria Transformation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students construct paper recombinant plasmids to simulate the methods genetic engineers use to create modified bacteria.
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Handout
Other

Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.: Basics of Recombinant Dna

For Students 9th - 10th
What is rDNA? What are the three different methods by which rDNA is made? How does it work? Why is it important? Find all this and also discover what the future holds for rDNA. After learning all this information, take the interactive...