Activities matching path: Using Models → Life Sciences → Structure & Function
Cellular Respiration
Explore how your body converts the chemical energy of glucose into the chemical energy of ATP.
Diffusion
Investigate how the random motion and collisions of particles results in diffusion.
Diffusion Across a Semipermeable Membrane
Explore the role of pore size in the diffusion of a substance across a membrane.
Diffusion, Osmosis and Active Transport
Explore how water and ions can diffuse both passively and actively through cell membranes.
DNA to Protein
Explore what DNA is and how proteins are synthesized from the genetic information stored in it.
Leaf Photosynthesis
This NetLogo model of leaf photosynthesis shows the macroscopic outcome of the reaction.
Meiosis
Learn how meiosis and fertilization shuffle the alleles that offspring inherit.
Modeling Transcription
Explore how an mRNA copy is made of DNA.
Modeling Translation
Explore how a protein is made from an mRNA sequence.
Modern Genetics
Students breed dragons to learn concepts in modern genetics.
Molecular Self-Assembly
Explore how molecules assemble themselves into defined patterns, a process called molecular self-assembly.
Mutations
Explore how changing the DNA sequence can change the amino acid sequence of a protein.
Mystery Plants Mystery
Learn about intraspecific differences and how variation in a population can help a species adapt to living in different environments.
Plants
What do plants eat? This unit explores plants and how they make food.
Protein Folding
Explore how hydrophobic and hydrophilic interactions cause proteins to fold into specific shapes.
Protein Partnering and Function
Build "partnerships" between a protein and small molecules and explore the effects of surface charge, polarity, and shape on partnering.
Tree of Life
Zoom down from what we can see with our own eyes to the macromolecules from which they are made
Variations and Adaptations
Students determine how climate can affect ecosystems.
The Virtual Field
Learn the life cycle of organisms, variation within a species, and heritability of traits.
