Natural
antibiotics In this activity you will test a range of natural products
to find out how effectively they do kill bacteria. You will need to be familiar
with the microbiological techniques to be used.
Extracting
DNA in your kitchen
Isolating, or extracting, DNA
can be done in about half an hour in your kitchen, but it took many
years to learn how to do it the first time.
DNA
line dancing
In this activity you will assume the role of a base in the DNA
chain and together with the rest of the class you will model the process
of DNA
replication.
What
or who would you clone?
IIn this activity you will consider issues - ethical, economic
and social - involved in supporting cloning
or opposing it in a variety of contexts and decide what your views
are.