Internet Links
Geobacter/Microbial Fuel Cells
http://www.geobacter.org
Biodiesel Websites
http://www.kitchen-biodiesel.com/
http://www.biodieselcommunity.org/makingasmallbatch/
http://www.utahbiodieselsupply.com/blog/2006/05/biodiesel-science-fair-project-wins.html
www.biofuels4schools.org
http://www.biodieselcommunity.org/
http://www.cubiodiesel.org/fueling.php
The Green Guide by National Geographic
www.thegreenguide.com
Gel Electrophoresis: Genetic Science Learning Center – University of Utah
This virtual lab takes your students through making a gel and running DNA samples from start to finish with helpful information along the way.
http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/biotech/gel/
The Double Helix Game
In this game, students make copies of an organism’s DNA and then have to guess which organism the DNA belongs to based on the number of chromosomes and genes found in the organism.
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/educational/dna_double_helix/index.html
Transcribe and Translate a Gene: Genetic Science Learning Center – University of Utah
Students practice transcribing and translating a gene in this activity.
http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/basics/transcribe/
NCBI Homepage for BLAST
Blast is used to research a segment of genetic information to find out more information on it such as origin and type.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
DNA Extraction Virtual Lab: Genetic Science Learning Center – University of Utah
In this virtual lab you are taken through step by step the process of extracting DNA from a human cheek cell and running it through gel electrophoresis.
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units/biotech/extraction/
It Takes a Lick’n: Nova Online
In this activity, students become a NOVA lab chief technician and are taken through creating a DNA fingerprint to solve a crime.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sheppard/analyze.html
Restriction Analysis of DNA Virtual Lab
Visit this website to virtually practice using restriction enzymes to splice DNA and run it through a gel. Background information and explanations of the process are given along the way.
http://www.scq.ubc.ca/files/VirtualLabDNA/vlabFrame.html
Recombinant DNA Technology Animation
This website offers helpful animations describing different aspects of genetically modified organisms.
http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/biology/units/gmo/images.html
Use of Genetic Engineering Tutorial: DNAi
The DNAi website is a great resource for learning all about genetic engineering. It offers background information along with interviews of scientist that played an important part in this scientific advancement and the controversy that surrounds it.
http://www.dnai.org/b/index.html
GMO Articles
This link offers many different articles about research on GMOs.
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/gm-food
Greenomes Website
“Greenomes provide laboratory and bioinformatics exercises to introduce students to modern plant genetics and genome research.”
http://www.greenomes.org
PBS Harvest of Fear Resources
“In ‘Harvest of Fear,’ FRONTLINE and NOVA explore the intensifying debate over genetically-modified (gm) food crops. Interviewing scientists, farmers, biotech and food industry representatives, government regulators, and critics of biotechnology, this two-hour report presents both sides of the debate, exploring the risks and benefits, the hopes and fears, of this new technology.”
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/harvest/
PCR Tutorials: Dolan DNA Learning Center
This website offers a PCR tutorial along with many other animations on biological processes.
http://www.dnalc.org/ddnalc/resources/animations.html
PCR Tutorial
This is a full screen animation demonstrating the process of PCR with no sound or descriptions.
http://www.iupui.edu/%7Ewellsctr/MMIA/pcr/pcr.swf
Bio-Rad PCR Animation
http://www.bio-rad.com/LifeScience/jobs/2004/04-0522/04-0522_PV92_PCR.html
Eye of the Donkey Game
A game for learning more about PCR
http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/chemistry/pcr/
Bacterial Transformation Tutorials: Dolan DNA Learning Center
This website offers a bacterial transformation tutorial along with many other animations on biological processes.
http://www.dnalc.org/ddnalc/resources/animations.html
Uses of Genetic Engineering Tutorial: DNAi
Navigate through this webpage to learn many fun facts about the history of genetic engineering and the process that makes it possible.
http://www.dnai.org/b/index.html
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station Lyme Disease Information
http://www.caes.state.ct.us/FactSheetFiles/IndexHeadingFiles/FStick.htm
BioRad ELISA Animation
http://www.bio-rad.com/LifeScience/jobs/2004/04-0522/04-0522_ELISA.html
ELISA Animation: University of Arizona
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/immunology/activities/elisa/main.html
A Mutation Story
A video segment that tells the story of a genetic mutation affecting the population of West Africa.
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resources/tdc02/sci/life/gen/mutationstory/index.html
Blood Typing Game
In this game you have to blood type each patient and give them a blood transfusion.http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/landsteiner/
