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Chemical Education Digital Library: Carbonic Acid H2 Co3

For Students 9th - 10th
A 360 degrees view virtual model of a carbonic acid molecule. Students can manipulate the model to explore its properties.
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Handout
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Ornl: Human Genome Project Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
Many different resources can be accessed through this page from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. A valuable reference page for teachers and students.
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Handout
Other

Human Genome Sequencing Center (Baylor College of Med)

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource presents information about the human genome sequencing project and has links to other genome projects besides the Human Genome Project.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Bioinformatics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This exercise contains two interrelated modules that introduce young scholars to modern biological techniques in the area of Bioinformatics, which is the application of computer technology to the management of biological information. The...
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Handout
OpenStax

Open Stax: Lydia E. Kavraki: Protein Folding

For Students 9th - 10th
This module introduces students to the problem of Protein Folding, its importance, and current computational methods used to attack its complexity.
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Website
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Environmental Science: Environmental Science Careers

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore this list of close to fifty science careers with a connection and focus on environmental science. Also compare average salaries of each.
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Activity
Other

Digital World Biology: Blas Ting Through the Kingdom of Life

For Students 9th - 10th
Use BLAST to identify unknown sequences. GenBank contains over 3 million sequences, with over 14 billion nucleotides. BLAST can be used to compare an unknown sequence to all the sequences in the database, and find sequences that match....
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Unit Plan
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dna From the Beginning: Some Dna Can Jump

For Students 9th - 10th
This article contains information on how DNA is repaired to prevent mutated damage from interrupting DNA processes.
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Handout
National Human Genome Research Institute

Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research Program

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the official division for researching the implications of the Human Genome Project. Find out about topics being discussed involving the ethics of the program, how it is socially accepted, and what sort of legislature is involved...
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Handout
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Human Genome Project: Project Information

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides from the Human Genome Project provides basic information on the Human Genome Project. Among the items discussed is how genome sequencing is done, as well as information about the genome and proteome.
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Website
Other

The Predictprotein Server

For Students 9th - 10th
PredictProtein is a service for sequence analysis, structure and function prediction. When you submit any protein sequence PredictProtein retrieves similar sequences in the database and predicts aspects of protein structure and function....
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Article
Other

Q What is.com: What Is C Dna?

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief article about complementary DNA, a type of DNA that is sourced from mRNA or messenger RNAs.
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Handout
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dna From the Beginning: Mutations Are Changes in Genetic Information

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explains how and why mutations are so important to genetics.