Cells and dna
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Cells and DNA Laura Herbert & Lisa Mindlin
Transcript of Cells and dna
Cells and DNALaura Herbert & Lisa Mindlin
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Learning Segment Topics
O Cell Structure and Functions
O What is DNA
Authentic Reading
DNA Interactive
http://www.dnai.org
Biology Guide
http://www.biologyguide.net
Cell Parts Lab Learn about cell parts and structure with lab
activities, using a microscope. Look at onion cells under a microscope at different power strengths.
Have students draw what they see under low and high power.
Students can perform a lab by taking animal cells from the inside their cheek with a swab. Then they can create a microscope slide by wiping glass with the used swab. After examining the animal cell structure, students should name all the parts of plant and animals cells and the differences between them.
Flip A Coin DNA Lab Students can invent their own Punnett square by
flipping a coin. Take two coins and use heads as dominant, tails as recessive. Flip both to get alleles for the mother, then flip both to get alleles for the father.
Pick fun traits for what these alleles mean: the dominant trait may be purple hair and the recessive trait may be green.
Write these on a Punnett square and find out the phenotype of their offspring. To continue the lab, invent new partners to mate with one of the offspring to continue watching how genetics work.
