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Biochemistry Detectives

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the process of chemosynthesis and relate it to the biological communities in cold seeps. In this biochemistry lesson students interpret analyses of enzyme activity and draw inferences about organisms in cold seep...
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Regulating Gene Expression

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this genes worksheet, students review the system that controls gene expression and the enzymes required for regulating genetic expression. This worksheet has 6 fill in the blank and 7 short answer questions.
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Simulation of Gene Splicing

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students simulate gene splicing by examining bacteria. They create a bacterial DNA into which they insert the human DNA (gene) that codes for growth hormone. They cut the sites of the enzyme to study how the human DNA can be joined to...
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Organic Molecules

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students explore organic compounds. Using humor, factual and conceptual correctness, students create a skit explaining organic compounds. Students include topics such as sugar, polymerization, unraveling of proteins, and substrates. ...
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Cell Structure And Function

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this biology worksheet, students respond to 13 multiple choice questions related to cell structure and function. They identify which are microfilamets and which have a cell wall. Students also describe what chloroplasts are and their...
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Genetic Vocabulary

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this genetics worksheet, learners compare structures of molecules, compare the function of genetic enzymes, and compare transcription and translation. This worksheet has 2 multiple choice and 20 matching questions.
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Transcription, Translation, and the Genetics of Microbes

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students construct various virus models using Fruit loops and Alphabits to represent nucleotides and molecules. They constructs capsomeres using shoes as the capsomeres and discuss various viruses.
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DNA Fingerprinting: You Be the Judge!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners use their knowledge of DNA fingerprinting to evaluate the use fingerprints in courts, and will address the ethics of establishing a national database of fingerprints.
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DNA and RNA Structure and Transcription

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compare and contrast the structure of RNA and DNA.They summarize the process of transcription and translation. The lesson uses an inquiry model and the use of codes in DNA.
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To Smell or Not to Smell, That is the Ester

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils explain the basic concepts of polymerization. Students participate in a lab to create a crude preparation of carboxyl esterase and test its effectiveness in reducing the residual monomer in an emulsion such as paint.
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Respiration Challenge

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students use limited data and their prior knowledge to solve problems focused on various inhibitors of respiration in this instructional activity on cellular respiration in a molecular level. This instructional activity includes a...
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Reaction Rates-Catalysis, Concentration, Surface Area, and Temperature

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students determine the meanings of concentration, surface area, and catalysis through an experiment. In this lesson about chemical reactions, students participate in an experiment. Students complete three different parts of the...
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Protist Crossword

For Students 6th - 12th
In this protist worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle with 34 questions about the behaviour and different types of protists.
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Virginia Department of Education

Physical and Chemical Properties of Water

For Teachers 9th - 12th
How can you effectively provide detailed concepts of water properties to your high school class in a way they find exciting and challenging at the same time? By letting them play, of course! Through a variety of experiments, pupils...
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Molecular Evolution in Plants

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are using a paper chromatography study that is suitable for introductory biology. The absorption spectra studies and gel electrophoresis studies are appropriate for students who have complete both introductory biology and...
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cDNA Sequencing By Restriction Project

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars try to confirm the sequence of a given cDNA clone using the WWW tools and traditional restriction analysis. They grow the clone, prep the plasmid, cut the plasmid with restriction enzymes and compare their results to what...
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Selecting Soil Organisms in Compost

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students conduct an experiment to demonstrate that many of the enzyme systems needed to break down society's wastes exist in nature among the decomposers in a compost pile. They culture compost bacteria on starch agar to examine the...
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Comparison of Four-, Six-, And Eight-bp Cuts in Calf Thymus Dna

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the use of restriction enzymes to recognize a four-, six-, and eight-nucleotide sequence. They utilize restrictive endonucleases to cut Thymus DNA and compare results by viewing the DNA fragments on Agarose Gel...
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Cloning of Plasmid and Spinach DNA

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students ligate fragments of genomic DNA from spinach into a vector plasmid. They perform a restriction enzyme digestion. Student use a ligated DNA molecule to transform E. coli cells. Students analyze their procedures and outcome of...
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The Cloning of Plasmid and Spinach DNA

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students will first extract genomic DNA from spinach and perform a restriction enzyme digestion on both the spinach DNA and the plasmid using the same restriction enzyme. They then ligate the cut plasmid DNA with the cut spinach DNA in...
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Respiration

For Teachers 9th - 12th
This series opens with diagrams of experimental setups. A data table is displayed and questions are asked, indicating that the intent is for lab groups to perform the depicted experiments. At slide twelve, a coherent lesson about the...
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Virginia Department of Education

Biotechnological Issues and Bioethics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Culminate a bioethics unit with the implementation of a lesson that incorporates the Socratic method to encourage class feedback and participation. Pupils participate in a discussion on bioethics and morality, complete a writing seminar,...
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Nuffield Foundation

Investigating the Effect of Temperature on the Activity of Lipase

For Teachers 9th - 12th
How does temperature affect lipase activity? Young scholars conduct an experiment to collect data on the interaction of lipase at different temperatures. They add lipase to a solution of milk, sodium carbonate, and phenolphthalein and...
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CONSTRUCTION OF A HEMOGLOBIN GENE

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use research to see how eight pairs of triplets are equivalent to part of a gene and control a part of heredity. They also understand how red blood corpuscles manufacture normal hemoglobin.

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