Unit 3 Genetic Material and Protein Synthesis
STANDARD 1: DNA and RNA Structure and Transcription
A. Compare and contrast the structure of DNA and RNA
B. For the process of transcription, describe what occurs, when it occurs, where it occurs, why it occurs, and how it occurs.
C. Simulate the transcription of DNA into mRNA.
A. Compare and contrast the structure of DNA and RNA
B. For the process of transcription, describe what occurs, when it occurs, where it occurs, why it occurs, and how it occurs.
C. Simulate the transcription of DNA into mRNA.
- Notes: Review your PearDeck TakeAways in Google Drive
- Other Resources to help you understand the topics:
- Book Reading: Modern Biology: Section 10-2 RNA
- Video Clip: Difference between DNA and RNA (2:07) (YouTube - OUlearn)
- Review and Practice for DNA / RNA Structure:
- Read: Notes on DNA Structure
- Quiz yourself: on the parts of DNA with the Drag and Drop DNA model
- Interactive Reading Tutorial: DNA structure and Function (Click "Next" to move through the concepts) (Biology Place
- Interactive Reading Tutorial: The DNA Helix (Click "Next" to move through the concepts) (Biology Place)
- Practice: Match nucleotides and read about how DNA is replicated in "Build A DNA Molecule" - Click the correct base to complete the DNA molecule!
- Play: DNA - The Double Helix (Nobel Prize)
- Animated Tutorial: What is a gene?
- Review and Practice Transcription:
- Animated Tutorial: Transcription
- Animated Reading Tutorial:Transcription (Interactive) Click "Next" to move through concepts(Biology Place)
A. Relate gene and protein.
B. For the process of translation, describe what occurs, when it occurs, where it occurs, why it occurs, and how it occurs.
C. Simulate the transcription and translation of a strand of DNA to a protein.
- Notes: Review your PearDeck TakeAways in Google Drive
- Other Resources to help you understand the topics:
- Animated Tutorial: Translation The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
- Video Tutorial: RNA Transcription and Protein Synthesis (YouTube Mrs Coates Science 8:21)
- Review and Practice:
- Animated Reading Tutorial: Translation (Interactive) Click "Next" to move through concepts(Biology Place)
- Animated Tutorial: One gene makes one protein
- Animated Tutorial: Tour of the Basics: What Is A Protein? (learn.genetics.utah.edu)
- Animated Tutorial: Protein Synthesis: Our Molecular Selves (genome.gov)
- Practice: Transcribe and Translate A Gene!
- Read: DNA to RNA to Protein Information (Nobel Prize)
- Genetics Basics: How Genes Work
- The DNA and Genes Game So you think you understand DNA and Genes? You say you know how the process of transcription works? Yeah yeah, you even understand translation, and you are an expert on Mutations because you’ve watched X-Men ten times. Go ahead and test your knowledge by playing the DNA and Genes Game!
STANDARD 3: MUTATIONS
A. Define the term mutation and identify various types of gene mutations.
- Notes: Review your PearDeck TakeAways in Google Drive
- Review and Practice:
- Video Clip: (Used in class) Genotypes and Phenotypes (Bozeman Biology 12:56)
- What is a mutation? (description and analogy)
- Mighty Mutations Game!
Video clip: NOVA- personal DNA Testing (12 min)
- VIDEO: (1st 12 min): NOVA - science of picky eaters
Don't like broccoli? Your DNA may explain why, because your sense of taste is largely encoded in your genes.
- Video clip: NOVA (36m-39m) Autism genes
- VIDEO CLIP: Human ear grown on the back of a mouse (Animal Planet: Weird, True and Freaky)
- INTERACTIVE: Test Neurobibromin Activity in a Cell - What happens when proteins aren't made right