Crack the DNA Code

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Alternatively, bring in two or three different turtles or lizards, and discuss variation in traits

Just a few of our 20,000 proteins...

· Collagen, elastin

· Keratin

· Kinesin

· Insulin

· Rhodopsin

· Nebulin, actin, myosin

· Pikachurin

· Tubulin

· P53

· Ion channels

· Cadherin

· Fibrin

· Hemoglobin

· Glucose transporter

· Histones

The recipe for every protein is written in DNA code!

Nucleotide model (building block of DNA)

P: Phosphate

S: Sugar

NB: Nitrogenous Base (4)

Adenine

Thymine

Guanine

Cytosine

Key:

Yellow: THYMINE

Red: ADENINE

Blue: GUANINE

Green: CYTOSINE

Now it's time to get your sequences and build your DNA ladders!

But what does DNA really look like?

DNA extraction

Your DNA determines what you look like!

Punnett Practice.doc

KARYOTYPE:

A photo of

all your

chromosomes

It's time for forensic engineering! Let's go!






*AMEL refers to amelogenins. (Amelogenesis is the development of enamel.)

Look at this example...


Now it's your turn!

codis analysis example