On Thursday, students went to the library to begin researching their biotechnology topic which will be presented to the class at the end of this unit. Please note, there are some new notes that can be printed.

Today, two groups presented their "dramatic representation" of DNA replication. The third group will present on Tuesday when, hopefully, the whole group will be present. The application project of this unit was then presented. Students formed groups of 4 and picked their topics. You will begin researching your topic tomorrow in the library. Students were then given an activity involving taking a small segment of DNA, transcribing it into mRNA, and then sequencing the polypeptide that would result from translation. This activity is due next Tuesday. There were also some textbook questions assigned at the end of the protein synthesis note that are due on Tuesday.
Have a very hoppy Easter! I'll be away with Envirothon tomorrow.

Today we went over protein synthesis. The note for this is attached on the blog. There's also an attached list of animations and tutorials of this process....I recommend you view a few of these.

On Monday, students worked on preparing their dramatic representation of DNA replication. These "plays" will be performed on Wednesday.

On Friday we went over DNA replication by viewing several online animations/tutorials. Students were given a worksheet on DNA replication that must be finished for homework. Finally, students were divided into 3 large groups and began to plan how to show DNA replication through a dramatic presentation. This will be worked on in Monday's class. If you haven't already printed off the Protein Synthesis note, you should do so now.

On Thursday, grade 10's wrote the OSSLT, so we didn't have class.

Today we began the new unit....Molecular Genetics. We discussed DNA structure and some of the important historical scientists and experiments that led to our understanding of DNA structure. Here's a link to the website that contained the DNA timeline.
http://www.dnai.org/timeline/index.html