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Doing DNA:  DeCode of Life

A series of activities and teaching analogies about DNA.

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DNA as Recipe

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DNA as Ribbon

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DNA as Videotape

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Make A Human DNA Model—Out of Humans

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DNA Extraction from Wheat Germ

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DNA Tubes

How much DNA in a DNA Tube?

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DNA Sequencing Toy Web Page

(links to movie and audio files and where to buy supplies)

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Go directly to DNA Sequencing Toy Movie (big 156.3 mb)

Go directly to DNA Sequencing Toy Movie (smaller 2.4 mb)

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DNA Tools:  Enzymes From and For DNA Chymosin:  The First Product of recDNA in the US Food Supply

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DNA ImProvElectrophoresis:  Is that Green a True Green, or a Mixture of Blue and Yellow?   Improvising and Troubleshooting Your Own Gel Rig

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DNA Mapping:  An Analogy

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Genomics Center

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DNA Genomics & Food

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Genomics & Food:  Essay and Policy Analysis

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DNA Functional Analysis:  Knockouts through Homologous Recombination

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DNA Functional Analysis:  Studying Gene Expression with DNA Microarrays

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DNA Microarrays:  Inventing Maskless DNA Arrays (may require subscription or registration)

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DNA Functional Analysis:  Analyzing Expressed Peptides

October 15, 2008
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