Agenda - DNA activity Please read the links in order. Take notes on a separate sheet of paper. Start with the timeline, then the overview followed by the online education kit. In the education kit I want you read "Genes, variation and human history". Then Complete activity 1 and answer this question: how is this helpful to forensics?, then complete activity 2 and answer this question: What branch of forensics is this most helpful to? Then I want you to read ALL 3 articles. Finally when you are done with that you should explore the website, it has a lot of interesting information about DNA and genetics. HW:
Agenda - Go to http://www.dnai.org/timeline/index.html - Complete the timeline worksheet - Explore this link (follow the directions on the website), http://www.dnai.org/a/index.html - Try to make the DNA structures by matching the bases together in the base pairing interactive - Answer the following questions: 1. Which bases go together? 2. How do they go together? HW: None (unless you weren't here or didn't finish in class)
Agenda - Go to http://www.dnai.org/a/index.html - Go to the copying the code part and complete the attached copying DNA worksheet - When youre done with that go to http://www.dnai.org/a/index.html - Go to reading the code and complete the attached reading the code worksheet HW:None (unless you weren't here or didn't finish in class)
Agenda - Go to http://www.dnai.org/a/index.html - Go to the controlling the code part - Complete the attached controlling the code worksheet - Complete the attached recovering the Romanov's activity HW:Finish any of the above activities if not already finished
Agenda - http://www.dnai.org/b/index.html Go to the manipulation page and investigate. Focus and take notes on the amplifying part. Especially PCR. Wrtie about how you think this would have forensics applications. - Try this website too, www.yourgenome.org/facts/what-is-pcr-polymerase-chain-reaction HW: