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Create your own model of the DNA double helix structure. Make sure to have a key that explains how the different elements are being represented in your model. Use Pinterest for inspiration as to how to make your DNA model

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Use the linked website to find examples of dominant and recessive traits. Pick one trait from animals, humans, and plants to use for the project. Once you have all the traits picked you need to create three generations. From these generations make the Punnett Squares to show all the possible genotypes and phenotypes. You should also record how frequently certain phenotypes appear in the generations. Use google sheets or Excel to create graphs to represent the frequency. It does not matter with individuals you pick to cross as long as the second and third generations contain at least one of the offspring from the previous cross. Make a PowerPoint to display your work.

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Dominant and Recessive Traits in Plants, Animals, and Humans

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Alleles can be categorized as dominant or recessive, where dominant refers to the visible trait, and recessive refers to the one that is not visible morphologically.

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Write a story from an observer in the cytoplasm watching how a strand of DNA can code for a protein. Explain what is being seen in the processes of transcription and translation. Use Canva to create a storyboard to go along with your writing.

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Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more.

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Create a pamphlet or poster that shows your stance on gene editing. Your pamphlet/poster should inform the class on what gene editing is and why they should agree with you. Also, create a Google form for the class to vote for or against gene editing. You will have to present your stance to the class.

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Reflect on the traits inherited in your family. Are they dominate or recessive. Write down your reflection as a journal entry. Go back in your family as far as you can. Use canva, powerpoint, or something similar to create a pedigree for one of the traits passed down in your family.

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Create a model of a strand of DNA, its respective RNA strand, and its respective protein chain. Also, you need to create the same three structures if a mutation is present. The mutation can either be a deletion, insertion, or substitution. Use the website linked to learn more about the different types of mutations that you can pick from.

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Create a spoken word poem about the importance of DNA to living things. Use Musicca to make the beat for your poem.

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You need to enable JavaScript to use the drum machine.

What is a drum machine?

A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that can imitate drum kits and percussion instruments. Some can also produce artificial sound effects. Most drum machines allow users to create their own beats.

A drum machine is commonly used for recording electronic music, often used in house, dance, and hip hop genres. It may also be used as a metronome, as a backing track for practice or as a way to explore a variety of drum rhythms.

Using the drum machine

Click the squares to create your drum beat. Double click the squares to toggle between the hi-hat and open hi-hat, snare drum and cross stick, and high tom-tom and low tom-tom. Click the instrument names on the left to mute the sound.

Click "Settings" to change drum kit, time signature, and activate swing. Click "Beats" to choose common drum beats. You can easily vary the beats by using ride cymbal instead of hi-hat, and cross stick instead of regular snare drum.

Save your drum beat by copying the web address in your browser. This also allows you to share your drum beats with others. For example, here is a funk rhythm and a crisp drum fill.

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Online drum machine. Create your own drum beat or choose from a selection of popular drum beats from a variety of musical genres.

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Follow the simulation to figure out who committed the crime. Write a reflection on how you figured out who committed the crime and why DNA can be helpful for the criminal justice system.

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DNA: It's what makes you unique. Unless you have an identical twin, your DNA is different from that of every other person in the world. And that's what makes DNA fingerprinting possible. Experts can use DNA fingerprints for everything from determining a biological mother or father to identifying the suspect of a crime. What then is a DNA fingerprint and how is it made? Here, you'll find out by solving a mystery-a crime of sorts. First, you'll create a DNA fingerprint (we'll supply the lab and all necessary materials). Then you'll compare this DNA fingerprint to those of all seven suspects to nab the perpetrator. Ready? Let's get to work!
More About DNA
In the last 15 years, DNA has played an increasingly important role in our legal system. Tissue evidence is now routinely collected during criminal investigations in hopes that it will provide genetic clues linking suspected criminals to crimes.

DNA profiles help forensic investigators determine whether two tissue samples-one from the crime scene and one from a suspect-came from the same individual. Fortunately, the genetic comparison doesn't require that investigators look at all of the DNA found in the tissue samples. That would take months or even years. Instead, by marking a small number of segments of DNA in one sample and then checking for the presence or absence of those segments in the other sample, investigators can say with some assurance whether the samples are from the same person.

How do they do it? Investigators use chemicals to cut the long strands of DNA into much smaller segments. Each segment has a specific length, but all of them share the same repeating sequence of bases (or nucleotides). The chemicals cut the segments at the beginning and at the end of the repeating string of nucleotides, so one segment might be ATCATCATCATCATC, for example, while another might be ATCATC. (The DNA segments used in forensic investigations are, of course, much longer than this.)

Investigators use a process called gel electrophoresis to separate these repeating segments according to length. Next, they introduce a small set of radioactive "markers" to the sample. These markers are segments of DNA of known length, with bases that complement the code of, and bind to, sample segments of the same length. The sample segment above (ATCATCATCATCATC), for example, would be tagged by a marker with the complementary code TAGTAGTAGTAGTAG.

Markers that do not bind to sample segments are then rinsed away, leaving in place only those markers that bound to complementary sample segments. Photographic film, which darkens when exposed to the radioactive markers, identifies the location of all marked sample segments. This film then becomes the DNA "fingerprint" that forensic investigators analyze.

The final step is a relatively simple matter of lining up the sample profiles side-by-side and comparing them for the presence or absence of segments with particular lengths. The more segments the two samples have in common, the more likely it is that the samples came from the same person.

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Assemble a virtual DNA fingerprint and use it to identify the culprit in a hypothetical crime.