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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Characterizing Drosophila Mutants

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate wild-type and several mutant varieties of Drosophila melanogaster, which are characterized and distinguished according to pteridine pigments. They discoverthat paper chromatography of the wild-type Drosophila...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: One Gene, One Enzyme

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about these historical experiments having to do with genes being connected to enzymes: Garrod's studies of alkaptonuria and Beadle and Tatum's work with Neurospora mutants.