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What is genetic engineering?

Identify Host and Donor Bacteria in Gene Transfer Activity

Use biological detergents, enzymes, and ethanol to isolate DNA from plant material.

Prepare stained slides to view plant samples in various stages of development.

Learn the basics of DNA sequencing and sequence homology with this lab activity.

Students become neuroscientists searching for Alzheimer's Disease biomarkers.

Examine the differences between cell types in the brain based on their profiles of proteins.

Students use color-coded pop beads to visualize the structure of amino acid chains with this kit.

These bundles are everything you need to perform agarose gel electrophoresis.

Using penicillin-impregnated discs on two plates, students grow one lawn each of two common, naturally occurring pathogen bacteria.

How Do Bacteria Turn On And Turn Off Genes?

Introduce young learners to genetics with DNA builder.

Ideal for Pre or Post-Lab Exercise.

Simulate multiple generations of Mendellian inheretance.

Students investigate the inheritance of the ability to taste sodium benzoate by constructing a pedigree of the ability of members of their family to taste them. Includes: 1 vial sodium benzoate, 1 vial control papers (100 papers per vial), and a family pedigree chart. *Test Paper Factoid: Taste papers can be used to demonstrate inheritance. The ability to taste PTC is a hereditary trait. 7 out of 10 people will taste it. Sodium Benzoate tastes sweet, salty, bitter or will be tasteless to different people. Thiourea tastes bitter to most but is tasteless to some!

This simulation experiment demonstrates the value of mitochondrial and chromosomal DNA testing for genetic identification.