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Biotechnology and The Chocolate Milk Cow Lesson PlanBiotechnology and The Chocolate Milk Cow Lesson Plan
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Biotechnology and The Chocolate Milk Cow

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Students discuss new discoveries that have resulted from the use of recombinant DNA technology and otehr biotechnology. In groups, they create a transgenic cow capable of producing chocolate-flavored milk.

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biotechnology, cloning, genes

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biotechnology, cloning, genes, recombinant dna, science
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Grade
9th - 12th
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Science
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