Protein Synthesis Animations

Click here to view an animation of protein synthesis. This is similar to the DNA replication video we watched in class.

Click here to view a second animation (note the music in the background!)

Videos from class: transcription and translation.

Still having trouble understanding protein synthesis? Click here for a step by step animation that explains all of the steps of protein synthesis in detail.



Hope these websites are helpful!

Extra Credit - Genetics

Interested in receiving extra credit? Read one article listed below. Write a summary of the article and explain how it is related to the Living Environment curriculum. Be sure to include the name, date, and publication of the article in your assignment. You can receive up to 5 points for your summary. Limit 1article per student. Due Friday, 3/12/10, but feel free to hand in your assignment at any time.

Zinc Fingers Could Be Key To Reviving Gene Therapy

Whole Genome of Ancient Human is Decoded

IBM Pursues $1,000 Genome Sequencing

Pfizer Buys Rights From Protalix for Gaucher Disease Drug 

Jaguars Don't Live Here Anymore

NY State Will Allow Use of Partial DNA Matches

Male Chromosome May Evolve Fastest

Malaria is a Likely Killer in King Tut's Post-Mortem

Frozen In Time - A Fertility Bank for Rare Livestock

FOXP2 Gene Shows Its Bossy Nature

Epigenetics Research Takes Aim at Cancer, Alzheimer's, Autism, other illnesses

Do-It-Yourself Genetic Engineering

New Brain Study

Target Cancer - After Long Fight, Melanoma Drug Gives Sudden Reprieve 

Telomeres - A Conversation with Carol W. Grieder - On Winning a Nobel Prize

Three Win Nobel for Ribosome Research

A Conversation with Martin Chalfie  -Watching Life in Real Time - Interview

Two Monkeys Get the Gift of Color

E.U. Clears Biotech Potato for Cultivation

DNA Replication Animation

Click here to view an animation of the process of DNA  replication. Pretty amazing, huh?

DNA - The Basics

Do you need a refresher about DNA? Genes? Chromosomes? Proteins? Heredity? Traits? Click here for a tutorial.

Why DNA isn't your Destiny

Click here to read an article from Time Magazine about an expanding area in genetics, epigenetics. 

 

What is the epigenome? How did B vitamins alter the expression of the agouti gene in pregnant mice? 

What are examples of how gene expression can be changed?** What is the potential for epigentic research in the future?

So...does the environment affect gene expression????

A special thanks to Sarah Prutchenko for showing me this article:)

**Remember, epigenetics does NOT change DNA!

IBM Pursues $1,000 Personal Genome

Did you ever wonder what your genome looks like? Wouldn't it be fantastic if doctors could personalize medicine based on your own DNA?

Click here to read an article that explains how IBM is developing new technology that will make the process of decoding individual genomes much cheaper and faster. 

Wow, technology is truly amazing! What do you think?

Ancient Man in Greenland Has Genome Decoded

Click here to read an article about how the entire genome of a man that lived 4,000 years ago was decoded.

Where did the DNA sample come from? What information were scientists about to gather about this ancient man and his people?

Wow - I thought I was getting old!