Allison wrote on 10/10/00 4:26 pm
>>Hello
>>I am a student teacher in a high school introductory biology class. I will
>be teaching a unit on genetics next week. I was hoping that somebody may
>know of either a teacher's demonstration or quick easy lab to introduce
>students to genetic engineering in agriculture as well as give them some
>hands-on experience.
>>Thank you for any help
>Allison Carey
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>>Science and Plants for Schools (SAPS) and National Centre for
Biotechnology Education (NCBE) have produced a Plant DNA investigation
Kit which enables cutting DNA with restriction enzymes and subsequent
separation of the fragments by Gel Electrophoresis (and other
experiments). It has been designed to fit within the regulatory
contraints that exist in UK schools.
Read about it at:-
www-saps.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/info/DNA_KIT.HTML
and follow the links from that page for more details.
No time to sort this out for "next week", Alison, but you could extract
DNA (eg from onions) and precipitate it - you'll find the protocol on the
link to NCBE from the above.
John
Dr. John Hewitson
Science and Plants for Schools (SAPS)
Homerton College
Cambridge CB2 2PH UK
email: hom-saps at lists.cam.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1223 507168
Fax: +44 (0)1223 215004
web site: http://www-saps.plantsci.cam.ac.uk
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