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- 6th - 8th
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Students extract DNA from various foods that are found in the refrigerator. Full Review »
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- 9th - 11th
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Students explore the causes of disease, how organisms, spread disease, and the process of infection. Examples of inherited diseases, environmentally caused diseases, and the agents that cause them are examined in this lesson. Full Review »
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- 6th - 7th
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Students work together to identify the structure of DNA. They practice using new vocabulary as well. They create a 3-D model of DNA to complete the lesson. Full Review »
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- 11th - 12th
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Students extract DNA from animal liver cells. They separate, collect and describe the appearance from the extracted DNA while role playing as an intern in a city's forensics. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students, working in cooperative groups, extract very impure samples of DNA from a number of tissue samples. They determine how the samples can be preserved and how they are similar. Full Review »
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- 9th - Higher Ed
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Students extract DNA and test for its presence from unroasted (raw) wheat germ using a prescribed procedure. They modify the procedure to provide a less expensive, easier method. They also extract DNA from different available plant, animal and/or bacterial sources. The yield of DNA will be compared among the sources used. Full Review »
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- 5th - 12th
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Students study the basic disease concept of alcoholism. The determine that alcoholism is progressive and explore the levels of progression. They name the three factors contributing to the cause of alcoholism and explain each one with examples. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students demonstrate a basic understanding of the molecular basis of heredity. They discuss the chemical and structural properties of DNA and explain how genetic information is encoded in genes, replicated, transcribed and translated into proteins. Full Review »
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- 10th - 12th
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Students experience a "hands-on" activity to get visual evidence of the physical nature of DNA and the process of DNA purification. They explore one method of chromosomal DNA isolation and DNA extraction. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students explore and research the most widely distributed terrestrial carnivore, the wolf. They critique the true mystery of this animal and then form an opinion about this creature. The restriction-site analysis of mitochondrial DNA is composed. Full Review »
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