Genetics & DNA Experiment Kit
The Genetics & DNA Experiment Kit is consumable. You will need one per student.
Head into the lab for an in-depth investigation of genetics, the branch of biology focused on heredity and variation in organisms, and DNA, the acid that holds the blueprints for life.
In this course, you’ll…
- See genetic material with your own eyes as you isolate the DNA from a tomato in a test tube
- Investigate inheritance and learn how traits pass down from parents to children
- Learn about dominant and recessive genes and play inheritance games to determine how traits emerge in the future
- Learn about the biology of reproduction, the components of cells, and how chromosomes are combined and copied
- Assemble a model to see the elegant double-stranded helical structure of DNA
- Crack the genetic code and find out how the different parts, called nucleotides, fit together
- Analyze DNA evidence to identify suspects and solve a crime
- Breed your own bacteria colony to experiment with survival of the fittest
- Read about how mutation affects genes and how scientists clone plants and animals
This experiment kit includes a full-color, 48-page manual with step-by-step directions for experiments/activities and explanations.