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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Biology: Dna Technology: Self Check Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Try these five self-checking quiz questions over DNA technology. Click on hints to see information about each question.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Recombinant Dna Technology

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a passage about recombinant DNA technology and answer the follow-up questions.
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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Dna Technology

For Students 9th - 10th
This article will help students define DNA technology, the Human Genome Project, and PCR.
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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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Interactive
University of Utah

University of Utah: Dna Mircoarray Virtual Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive lab will enhance learning about DNA by virtually translating a gene.
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Handout
University of Arizona

The Biology Project: Recombinant Dna Technology Problem Set

For Students 9th - 10th
Get an indepth overview of recombinant DNA technology by going through a tutorial that consists of 11 questions and explanations.
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Handout
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Dna Forensics

For Students 9th - 10th
A concise explanation of the use of DNA technologies in forensic identification from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Additional valuable resources are provided.
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Interactive
University of Utah

University of Utah: Genetic Science Learning Center: Dna and Verdicts

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of a site on genetics, this page explores DNA as a forensic science. Explains how and why DNA can be used to convict or acquit a criminal from wrongdoing using forensic DNA analysis. Teacher resources too.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Inside the Dna

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students conduct their own research to discover and understand the methods designed by engineers and used by scientists to analyze or validate the molecular structure of DNA, proteins and enzymes, as well as basic information about gel...
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PBS

Pbs Bloodlines: Technology Hits Home

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a must see for any lesson or unit on biotechnology! It is a companion to the PBS video "Bloodlines: Technology Hits Home," although it can certainly be used without the video. It's a fantastic site that will challenge...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Recombinant Dna

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Recombinant DNA is the combination of DNA from two different sources. For example, it is possible to place a human gene into bacterial DNA. Recombinant DNA...
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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Dna Sequencing

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how the sequence of nucleotide bases (As, Ts, Cs, and Gs) in a piece of DNA is determined.
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Other

Beautiful Chemistry: Beautiful Structures: Dna Nanostructures

For Students 9th - 10th
DNA is the molecule of life, as life's secrets are encoded in DNA. In this interactive activity. we see the famous double helix structure of DNA.
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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Intro to Biotechnology

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of what biotechnology is including DNA technology. Also explore ethical questions in biotechnology.
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PPT
Sumanas

Sumanas Inc: Life: The Science of Biology: Dna Chip Technology

For Students 9th - 10th
A new way of testing DNA samples uses a chip. This allows scientists to examine thousands of genes instead of just one at a time.
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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Overview: Dna Cloning

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the definition, purpose, and basic steps of DNA cloning.
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Activity
Other

British Columbia Institute of Technology: Extraction of Dna

For Students 9th - 10th
A lab experiment to extract DNA from an onion using household equipment. Procedure includes both videos and pictures.
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Handout
Other

Molecule of the Month: Dna (Java)

For Students 9th - 10th
A good site that begins with the background and branches into the structure, function and applications of technology. This version of the page requires Java, and should open some applets that allow you to see the structures in 3-D.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How to Sequence the Human Genome

For Students 9th - 10th
Your genome, every human's genome, consists of a unique DNA sequence of A's, T's, C's and G's that tell your cells how to operate. Thanks to technological advances, scientists are now able to know the sequence of letters that makes up an...
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Website
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Human Genome Project Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the goals of the Human Genome Project. It also explains some of the ethical, legal and social challenges associated with this new technology.
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Website
American Chemical Society

The Pharmaceutical Century: The 1950s

For Students 9th - 10th
This extensive review of the advances in medical research and technology in the 1950s credits the Cold War and Cold War thinking with promoting scientific research and government funding of that research, including medical issues. Find...
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Website
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dna Interactive: Chronicles

For Students 9th - 10th
By looking at the history of genetic engineering, this site hopes to show where eugenics has gone wrong and where we have an opportunity to make it right.
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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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Activity
Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Dna Origami Inspired Structure

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Using pasta students will design and construct a container that can travel along a zip line to deliver a cargo which is candy. This challenge is explored on this site as well as tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document...

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