The psychosocial impacts of receiving genetic information are more complex than imagined at the dawn of the Human Genome Project. Patients and consumers need help to understand and deal with the results.
A Cambridge Analytica-level event could increase consumer distrust of genomics.
1. 49 million years ago, a giant bloom of floating plants (Azolla) in the Arctic Ocean tipped the Earth's climate from very hot to very cold.
This worksheet gives students a chance to practice identifying genotypes on pedigree charts. The pedigrees focus on human genetic diseases, such as albinism, dwarfism, tay-sachs, and sickle cell anemia.
Generations of parents' and grandparents' genes are passed along to your baby. Pregnant moms can find out how maternal and paternal genetics and X and Y chromosomes determine sex and other traits.
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How can full-siblings have different ethnicities when they have the same parents? There is a complex relationship between genetics, ancestry, and ethnicity. This article will dive into the science of how DNA is passed down from parents to children.
Researchers from Iceland look at how parents' age and sex influences new genetic mutations in children that may lead to rare medical conditions.
Have you ever tried out the same diet as your friend or family member, only to find out disappointingly that it doesn’t work for you – no matter how successful it was for them? As you very well know, this is not a new story. For years, it’s been a very common and frustrating occurrence for many w
What Is Genetic : How Genetic Engineering Will Make Us Look Like Bodybuilders The What is Genetic website explores the science of DNA, heredity, and biology. This article examines how the human bod…
What is the difference between Genetics and Epigenetics? Genetics is the study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics; epigenetics ...
You might not even know it, but your genetics might make you rarer than you think you are!
Michael Specter on CRISPR, a technology that lets us manipulate our genetic code with unprecedented ease, and which may lead to new cancer treatments.
Genetics is one of my favorite things to teach *cue sparkly harp music*. I really look forward to teaching genetics! And one thing that makes it so fun for me is…
Learn how the genetic code is used to translate mRNA into proteins and print the PDF of the genetic code chart for a study guide to learn the codons.
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Color helps answer questions about genetics you may be too afraid to ask, but should know as genetic testing increasingly becomes a part of healthcare.
Happy DNA Day! Below are 15 activities to teach kids about DNA, genetics, and heredity. Each of these ideas are free and have worksheets, printables, or easy lesson/activity ideas that can generall…
Have you wanted to use foldables in the classroom, but didn’t know how to incorporate them? Then this post will inspire you to try them...
Learn how to introduce genetics to students with a powerful mobile app. These lesson ideas and activitiy ideas are perfect for teaching genetics.
These are the study aids I made for a Genetics class that I took in the fall of 2011. There is a lot of class-specific material in this set like the information relating to the Lac operon and Gal g…
This genetic explanation and handy baby eye color chart will help you determine your baby's eye color.
1. OK Go wanted to distribute their album in the form of DNA and became the first band whose album was blocked by the FDA.
I looked to genetic testing and used the stratagene report and pathway planner put together by Dr. Ben Lynch to help me find answers to
When the holidays come around, I always try to have engaging lessons for my students. I created this activity with inspiration from another activity titled…
Genetics is one of my favorite topics. As a relatively new teacher, I realized early on that you need to start with the basics which means...
Genetically modified organism, organism whose genome has been engineered in the laboratory in order to favor the expression of desired physiological traits or the generation of desired biological products. Learn more about the development and uses of genetically modified organisms in this article.
Researchers are abandoning the concept of a list of genes sequenced from a single individual, instead aiming for a way to describe all the genetic variation within a species.
Modern advancements in health and medicine have been largely responsible for longer life. Here is a look at some of them and how to take advantage of them.
Learn all about Genetic Inheritance and how it affects our lives. These mind-blowing facts about genotypes and phenotypes will surprise you.
Inheritance can be a fun subject to teach and learn, but don't use a family tree. Human traits don't follow simple inheritance patterns and family trees can get sticky. Try these simple genetics practice problems with a hands-on approach.
Here's to another Sunday spent planning. The goal for next week is to get a few things planned before the weekend comes! To make this post a little shorter, I am breaking it into two parts. Tomorrow, I will share my reading and writing plans for some Minilesson Magic :) Science: This week, we have our mini-unit on genetics scheduled. Our students need to learn the following objectives: * Explain why organisms differ from or are similar to their parents based on the characterisitcs of the organism. * Give examples of likenesses that are inherited and some that are not. For my student journal pgs, click here (free and in a pdf). Monday: Set up science journals. The label shown above will be pasted into their notebook as a divider for our first unit of study. Complete the "Mice" assessment probe to see what students already think about how traits show up in organisms. After students think about their own explanations, we will use the explanations above to make a bar graph for how they think offspring's fur color is decided. (This assessment probe comes from Page Keeley, Uncovering Student Ideas in Science). Use 1st page of heredity video to explain heredity. Tuesday: Fingerprints Lab (found this gem linked for free online) Wednesday: Observing Human Traits Lab (free from Tamra Young on TPT); explain dominant and recessive traits and draw conclusions about what traits are dominant/recessive for humans based on classroom data) Thursday: Complete active sort around the room for Inherited vs Acquired traits and make flipbook (free materials from Jennifer Findley) Friday: Learn about Punnett Squares with Leprechaun Genetics (free from Making it Teacher on TPT) Other Resources that might be thrown in w/ extra time: Unit Outline from Moore County (includes a smartboard file to guide the mini-unit) Peas in a Pod (Mendelian Genetics) online freebie; Questions to go along with the reading selection included (I made these last year) Heredity (from Brainpop) DNA (from Brainpop) Animated Videos that explain DNA, genes, chromosomes, protein, heredity, and traits Math: This week in math, I will be getting to know my students better as mathematicians. I'm using some of the journal prompts/explorations from my Math Explorations that focuses on factors. (Not only will we learn about decomposing numbers, but students will be forced to use their multiplication facts). Since my Math Explorations are aligned with the mathematical practices, I thought it would be a good way to introduce concepts like communicating in math, perseverance, using multiple methods for showing work, using different strategies, etc. We are also going to continue working on our Summer Slide questions, which we started on Friday. Given time, I will also begin to introduce some of our math stations. For math stations, my team decided that we would have 4 stations this year, MATH SUPERSTARS, CONCEPT FOCUS, ALGEBRAIC, and something computer-based like Moby Max. Morning Meeting: We are going to focus on perseverance all week. We have a county-wide assessment that is designed with all tasks focusing on perseverance, so this fits in nicely with morning meeting. The kiddos may not even realize they are being assessed. Finish Strong Erik Weihenmayer on Oprah (start at 1:21) Hope you enjoyed peeking at my week! Tune in tomorrow for my reading/writing minilesson ideas for the week.
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The 65th anniversary of the publication of the structure of DNA by James D. Watson, Francis H.C. Crick, Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins takes place as scientists debate the ethics of new gene…
Genetics, Dna, Chromosome Structure Dna, Unrolled From The Cell Nucleus, With A Zoom Of A Chromosome And The Dna Double Helix Spread Out, With Its Nucleotide Bases.
Using mouse models, researchers have shed light on how mutations in the CHD8 gene affect brain development and cognitive functioning to trigger autism.
DNA and RNA both carry genetic information, but there are differences between them. Here, see a comparison of the differences between DNA versus RNA.
