Activity #1

This activity is designed to help students understand how the genetic code works for amino acids.

Activity #2

 This activity provides links to four Web sites that have animated illustrations of the cell cycle, meisosis, and mitosis.

Activity #3

This activity is a virtual lab by BioInteractive. It allows students to isolate, amplify, and identify bacterial DNA just as it is done in real labs.

Worksheet for This Unit

Activity #5

This activity is designed to give students a hands on approach to working with DNA.

Activity #6

This activity introduces the principles and terminology of chromatography and demonstrates the separation of the dyes in Sharpie pens with paper chromatography.

This activity introduces the principles and terminology of electrophoresis and demonstrates the separation of food color dyes with agarose gel electrophoresis.