"extraction"

Meets AP Science Practices 4, 5, 6, and 7, and Big Idea 4.

What Soil Nutrients Do Your Plants Really Use?

Students perform thin-layer chromatographic separation of carotene, xanthophyll, and chlorophylls.

Full STEAM ahead with the Engineer-It Kit™; grow and engineer bacteria to create color pigments.

Cause a color changing reaction to happen using an enzyme you extracted from cells that you engineer.

Is what you are buying what you are getting?

Use PCR to determine if your chickens are male (ZZ) or female (ZW).

Use PCR to determine if your parrots are male (ZZ) or female (ZW).

Use PCR to genotype your own chickens for the lavender allele that causes pale greyish plumage.

Use PCR to genotype your own chickens for the presence of the oocyan allele that causes blue eggs.

Use PCR to genotype your own chickens for the recessive white allele that causes white plumage.

Use PCR to accurately determine the sex of geese, ducks, quail, and other fowl.

Use PCR to determine if your emus are male (ZZ) or female (ZW).

Use PCR to genotype your own chickens for the frizzle allele that causes curly feathers.

Two activities to explore photosynthesis.

What's Living In The Dirt?