Here you will find links to animation, tutorials, articles in the followign
topics:
1)DNA fingerprining
a. Techniques
b. Forensic use
c. Restriction and Electrophoresis
2)Genetic Engineering
a. Genetically engineered plants
b. Comparison with selective breeding
c. Transformation of bacteria, plants.
DNA Detective: Interactive Website for the procedures of
Forensic DNA
testing.
http://www.dnalc.org/ddnalc/resources/shockwave/dnadetective.html
Lewport (They did it again!) - great animation with text of
restriction and
DNA electrophoresis analysis.
http://www.lpscience.fatcow.com/jwanamaker/animations/Chrom%26Elpho.html
Animation of making transgentic plants.
http://www-class.unl.edu/biochem/gp2/m_biology/animation/m_animations/overview1.swf
DNA profiling interactive - will help you see a common
application of
restriction analysis and DNA gel electrophoresis. And it's fun!
http://www.biotechnology.gov.au/BiotechnologyOnline/interactives/dna_profile_interactive.htm
Background information about Forensic DNA Evidence
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/dna_evbro/index.html
Great interactive showing how to splice a gene into a plasmid
using
restriction sites.
http://www.biotechnology.gov.au/BiotechnologyOnline/interactives/gene_splicing_interactive.htm
"Harvest of Fear"! A full
transcript of the film "Harvest of Fear".
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/harvest/etc/script.html
Try this interactive animation to compare selective
breeding with genetic engineering.. (based on the NOVA film
"Harvest of
Fear")
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/harvest/engineer/
From Arizona University - tutorial on trasnformation
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/molecular_bio/problem_sets/Recombinant_DNA_Technology/05t.html
Gel electrophoresis of proteins - interactive animation. (a bit
beyond what
you need to know, but the DNA part is useful)
http://www.shsu.edu/%7Echm_tgc/sounds/flashfiles/GE.swf
Why Files - A discussion about Genetically Engineered Crops - Is
it Wise to
make them?
http://whyfiles.org/062ag_gene_eng/index.html
An interactive tutorial and quiz about RFLP (Restriction
Fragment Length
Polymorphism) and its use for identification.
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/human_bio/problem_sets/DNA_forensics_1/DNA_forensics.html
USED IN CLASS: Animation of DNA technologies. Try out the ones
about
electrophoresis, restriction/ligation, transformation1, model
organisms.
http://www.dnalc.org/ddnalc/resources/animations.html
DNA Fingerprinting - good background, both technical and
historical
http://www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/Gel/fingprint1.htm
From NOVA - a great site about forensic DNA testing. Just an
example - look
how long the list is of people that were wrongly incarcerated
and aquitted
only by DNA evidence!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sheppard/cleared.html
Great Interactive Animations of making a recombinant plasmid DNA.
http://www.biotechnologyonline.gov.au/biotec/cutpaste.cfm
How DNA Evidence Works - Great Material form HowStuffWorks.com
DON'T MISS!In
fact - check out the entire http://www.howstuffworks.com/csi.htm.
http://people.howstuffworks.com/dna-evidence7.htm
How CLONING works!
http://science.howstuffworks.com/cloning.htm
A timeline about cloning - not the onloy one in the market, but
pretty up to
date. Gives a perspective about cloning of pet and farm animals,
as well as
of endangered species.
http://www.savingsandclone.com/cloning/timeline.html
Another cloning time-line with good articles attached
http://www.biology.iupui.edu/biocourses/Biol540/2background2k5.html
All you wanted to know about stem cells in an interactive
animation, short
aritcles and more. Great!
http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/stemcells/
Virtual LABS - Shpwing a variety of uses of DNA technology for
disease
detection, immunology, learning about a heart disease and more!
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/vlabs/index.html
From the Human Genome Project - DNA techniques
http://homepage.smc.edu/hgp/descrip.htm
WebLab: DNA Fingerprinting
http://www2.edc.org/weblabs/DNAFingerprinting/DNAFingerprintingMenu.html
DNA testing for zoologists
http://www.zoologix.com/zoo/index.htm
Simulation of DNA Fingerprinting
http://www.koshlandsciencemuseum.org/exhibitdna/crim05activity.jsp
Human Genome Project - Overall infortmation and VERY interesting
facts!
(This is the source for the honors' project fall 2007-8).
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/project/info.shtml#how
PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) - animation
PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) - animation
PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) - Interactive animation, with
views of the test-tube components and the molecular process.
http://plantandsoil.unl.edu/croptechnology2005/pages/animationOut.cgi?anim_name=PCR.swf
Library of 3D animations
http://www.dnalc.org/resources/3d/