11th Grade
~ReVision~
~American Lit~
~Film~
Introduction to Film:
21 Shots Project
~US History~
Henry Clay Play-Doh Structures
~Biology~
DNA & RNA Lab
In this project, Dani, Tori, and London had to create a DNA and RNA strand using Twizzlers, gummy bears and toothpicks. Before building the DNA and RNA models, group 3 had to identify the complementary strand sequence. The template strand was already given using the base pairs Adenine (red), Thymine(Orange), Cytosine(Green), Guanine(Clear), and Uracil (Yellow). Group 3 used gummy bears to represent the rungs and the twizzles were used as the backbone. London told Tori to lay the two Twizzlers parallel to each other onto the white paper and grab 6 toothpicks , Tori and Dani slid 2 gummy bears on each side of the toothpick to represent the base pairs for the sequence DNA strand was GCTGAA. The complementary strand from DNA was GCUGAA. After completing the ladder Tori and Dani wrote the nitrogen bases next to each gummy bear on both sides of the ladder model, after they finished that London took photos. To almost finish the model, we had to twist the ladder to show DNA by holding one end of your model flat and carefully flipping the other end over 180 degrees.