Do you look for ways to involve the holidays in your classroom activities? Valentine’s Day is coming up, and we have a few ideas on how you can add a little holiday flair to your lesson plans! Most of these…
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Five Ways to Improve Your Transformation Experiments
Transformation is the process through which bacteria can pick up foreign DNA from the surrounding environment. The newly acquired genetic information is both stable and heritable. In the laboratory, we can transform bacteria with small, circular pieces of DNA called…
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Exploring our Chromosomal DNA
The nucleus is a dense organelle that contains the genetic material of a cell. How dense? The human genome is around 3 billion nucleotides and the average length of a nucleotide is 0.6 nanometers, so stretched out the DNA in…
Biotech Basics – Visualizing DNA
What is agarose gel electrophoresis? Electrophoresis is a technique that allows us to separate DNA, RNA or proteins into bands according to their size. For more information about this technique, be sure to check out our previous post describing electrophoresis.…
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