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DNA Cut and Paste Activity

For Students 9th - 11th
Here is a cut and paste activity worksheet designed for older students. They fill in the blank with information about the composition of DNA, then create a DNA strand with its complimentary nucleotide chain.
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Serendip

Using Molecular and Evolutionary Biology to Understand HIV/AIDS and Treatment

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
HIV mutates rapidly, making treatments challenging to find. Scholars learn about why it mutates so quickly and how scientists race to find treatments. The resource approaches the issue from both a molecular and evolutionary perspective...
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Genetics 4 Mutations

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Young scholars identify and illustrate how changes in DNA cause mutations and evaluate the significance of these changes. They illustrate a chromosomal mutation such as duplication, deletion, inversion, and translocation.
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Dogs & Darwin

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders construct and conduct a laboratory experiment illustrating the transfer of mutations. They compare and contrast natural selection in organisms with long and short reproductive cycles.
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How Things Go Wrong

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners identify where mutations might occur and examine what effect those mutations will have through class discussion of DNA replication and cell division. Students then differentiate between mutations that affect individuals and...
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Protein Synthesis and Words

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain the roles of mRNA, tRNA and ribosomes. They explain how mutations can occur in an individual. Students simulate parts of a cell to access about the process of protein synthesis.
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Genetics - The Study of Inheritance

For Students 9th - 12th
In this genetics worksheet, high schoolers will compare four pea plants with different alleles that control flower color and complete 5 short answer questions. Then students will read 8 statements about genetic mutations and determine if...
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Inheritance of Genetic Disorders

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore inheritance patterns of diseases. In this genetic lesson, students explain how recessive genes may cause human disorders. They identify and research five genetic disorders and present their findings to the class.
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Model Organisms: The Genes We Share

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this genetics worksheet, students access a website to learn about how human genes mutate to cause heritable disorders such as Huntington disease. Students use the information on this website to complete 12 short answer questions.
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Gene Regulation Mechanisms

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore genetics. They discuss how chromosomes and/or genes are regulated during the life of an organism. In a lab setting, students compare and contrast the genomic regulation of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells using...
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Model Organisms: The Genes We Share

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers gather information about gene banks. In this biology lesson, students work in groups to complete an activity sheet about genetic databases and organism genomes. Lesson includes extension ideas.
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DNA and Genes

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students analyze the structure of DNA. They describe how the structure of DNA enables it to reproduce itself accurately. Students discuss genes and the sequence of nucleotides occur in DNA.
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Genetics - Critical Thinking

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this genetics worksheet, students review terms and processes associated with genetics. This worksheet has 2 multiple choice and 21 matching questions.
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Huntington Disease

For Students 7th - Higher Ed
In this genetics learning exercise, students access a website to read about what causes Huntington disease and how it is inherited. Then students complete 7 short answer questions.
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Living Environment

For Teachers 5th - 12th
In this environmental worksheet students complete a series of multiple choice and short answer questions on cell types, cell division, chromosomes and plant species.
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Genes

For Students 9th
In this biology activity, 9th graders identify and locate various vocabulary terms related to the study of genes. There are 18 biology terms located in the word search.
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The Making of the Fittest: Natural Selection and Adaptation

For Students 8th - Higher Ed Standards
The pocket mouse can be light brown like the sands of the desert, or dark brown like the volcanic lava flows that are interspersed throughout New Mexico's Valley of Fire. It seems that predators have weeded out light colored mice in this...
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Genetic Disorders

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine how living cells create new cells and how genetic mutations can cause disorders and be inherited.  In this genetic reproductionn instructional activity students create their own PowerPoint presentation. 
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National Geographic

Genetic Markers: Connecting the Dots

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Biology buffs simulate how genetic markers are passed among populations in order to understand how these markers can help anthropologists map human migration. A couple of volunteers leave the room while you walk the remaining learners...
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Scientist Simulation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students imagine themselves working as research scientists completing the end-steps of a molecular research project and interpreting the data. They compare the gene sequences of normal and abnormal mice and evaluate the protein product...
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Genetic Changes

For Students 9th - 12th
In this genetic change worksheet, learners will explore the changes that can occur in DNA including point mutations and chromosomal mutations. This worksheet has 11 multiple choice questions.
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Identifying Disease Genes using BLAST

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students navigate the National Center for Biological Information (NCBI) website and BLAST program to conduct a variety of biological assignments.
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The Master of Mutations

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders research a genetic disease and present the information to the class.
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Why do we need Vitamin C in our diet? Or Why do we carry old inactive genes in our genome?

For Teachers Higher Ed
Pupils explore and explain how mutations in the DNA sequence of a gene may be silent or result in phenotypic change in an organism and in its offspring. They analyze how evolution and biodiversity are the result of genetic changes that...

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