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Individual Experiments and Mini-Labatory Courses for High School Biology.

O1 A Molecular Approach to the study of Genetics and Evolution (View Individual Experiment)

The program contains selected experiments from Standard Program 1 and stresses the relevance of molecular biology to the study of human genetics and disease. The experiments provide an introduction to electrophoresis and to protein composition, structure, and function in health and disease. The exercises in the program are:

O2 An Introduction to Molecular Genetics (View Individual Experiment)

This outstanding program provides a solid foundation in molecular genetics and will prepare your students for advanced college-level courses. Your students will investigate such contemporary topics as DNA electrophoresis, restriction nuclease mapping, and molecular cloning procedures. We now offer a video which was designed to be used with this program. Overview 2 contains the following experiments selected from Standard Program 3:

O3 An Introduction to Electrophoresis (View Individual Experiment)

This series of three experiments provides an introduction to agarose gel electrophoresis, In the first experiment, students identify unknown dye molecules by comparing the electrophoresis migration with the migration of known dyes. In the second, they identify dye molecules that bind to DNA and determine the mechanism. They then study four proteins in experiment three and relate differences in they charges to their migration rates in an electric filed.