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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Dragon Science: Food for Thought

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate how geneticists use selective breeding to capitalize on hybrid vigor by using colored chips to represent traits in succeeding generations. Use Explain why farmers must buy new hybrid seed each year.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Understanding the Ballistics of Gene Bombardment

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice questions understanding the ballistics of gene bombardment.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Printing a Human Kidney

For Students 9th - 10th
Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala's young patient...
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PPT
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dolan Dna Learning Center: Dna Transformation, Part 2

For Students 9th - 10th
Animated slide show illustrating Morton Mandel and Akiko Higa's calcium chloride method of DNA transformation.
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Interactive
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dolan Dna Learning Center: Dna Transformation

For Students 9th - 10th
Through animated images, follow the experiment which created the first custom-made organism containing recombinant DNA.
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Website
University of Wisconsin

The Why Files: Scottish Sheep Shocker

For Students 9th - 10th
Simplified and irreverent explanation of how Dolly was cloned. Includes a simple timeline of cloning technology. Some good information behind the humor.
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Unit Plan
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Abpi: Manufacturing Pharmaceuticals

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth look at the technology involved in the pharmaceutical industry. Students work through interactive learning material, answering review questions along the way.
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Handout
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Abpi: Pharmaceutical Business

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a behind-the-scenes look at the pharmaceutical business. Learn about everything from medicine research and development to human resource concerns for a drug manufacturing company. Some interactive illustrations and suggested...
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Online News Hour: Natural Law Party Platform

For Students 9th - 10th
"The Natural Law Party has an action plan to revitalize America". This site provides with the issues and platform on many different issues for the Natural Law Party in the United States.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Human Cloning: Is It Biological Plagiarism?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity guides students to learn the science behind cloning, explore the benefits and consequences of human cloning, and communicate their knowledge and points of view.
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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Restriction Enzymes & Dna Ligase

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about restriction digestion, where the result has sticky ends and blunt ends. Also find out about ligation reactions.
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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Bacterial Transformation & Selection

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the transfer of plasmid DNA into bacteria. Also find out how bacteria are selected, and how proteins are produced and purified.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs: Nova: Timeline: The Pursuit of Immortality

For Students 9th - 10th
A timeline that allows students to explore humans' pursuit of a longer and healthier life. Includes major events from fourteenth through the twentieth centuries.
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Mitosis and Cell Specialisation

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on cloning. Plants can make identical copies of themselves by asexual reproduction, for example by tubers and runners. Humans have been cloning plants for years and have recently started to develop techniques to clone...
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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Biotechnology Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive study guide covers the main terms and concepts needed for a unit on biotechnology.
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Website
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Genetics

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from American Museum of Natural History focuses on Genetics. It defines genetics and provides links to games, stories, videos, and hands-on activities on the topic.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Genetic Testing: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will describe how diseases can be predicted by genetic testing, which is cause for ethical discussion. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Genetic Testing."
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Genetic Testing: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will describe how diseases can be predicted by genetic testing, which is cause for ethical discussion. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Genetic Testing."
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Article
Genome British Columbia

Genome British Columbia: Terminator Technology for Gm Crops

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1998, American scientists developed terminator seeds which grew into plants that were unable to reproduce. While this practice prevents the dangerous flow of genes to the wild, it has some disadvantages, for example, the added expense...
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Other

Tech Museum of Innovation: Cloning

For Students 3rd - 8th
As part of the online exhibit on Genetics from the Tech Museum of Innovation, this site deals with cloning and specifically cloning research and details on genetics.
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Unit Plan
University of Arizona

University of Arizona: Problemas De Icidos Nucleicos Y Material Genetico

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the fundamentals of nucleic acids and how they experience the processes of replication and translation with the series of problems presented here. The correct answers have a brief explanation to reinforce the theories and incorrect...
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Unit Plan
University of Arizona

University of Arizona: Problemas De Genetic Molecular De Procariotas

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about the operon model based on studies of lactose-dependent mutations of E. coli with the series of problems presented here. The correct answers have a brief explanation to reinforce the theories and incorrect answers are...
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Unit Plan
University of Arizona

University of Arizona: Problemas Sobre Tecnologia Del Dna Recombinado

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the basics techniques and principles of recombinant DNA and how it applies to human health with these series of problems presented here. The correct answers have a brief explanation to reinforce the theories and incorrect answers...
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Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Types of Gene Therapy

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the promise gene therapy offers for those suffering from genetic diseases and describes the two types - germ line gene therapy and somatic gene therapy.

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