Creating a Genetically Modificed Organisms (GMO)
It's a big deal, and we as a society will need to make some important decisions regarding the ethics of changing the DNA of organisms...should we or shouldn't we?
But first, let's try the process on a CAT (why those letters???)
p.55 = Figure out what traits you want in your CAT, and make your order with a partner
p.56 = follow the lab instructions
p.57 = get the amino acid sequences for the proteins that will provide your traits
p.58 = figure out the mRNA codons for the amino acid sequences
p.59 = fill it out,
- #1 = traits,
- #2 = amino acid sequences (from p.57),
- #3 = mRNA for amino acids (from p.58),
- #4 = add in the stop codons and make some long RNA strands,
p.60
- #5 = make the DNA strand,
- #6 = make the complementary strand of DNA
Now it's a good time to watch the movie GATTACA, not just because it's a great movie about how genetic engineering might affect our society, but also because you now know a lot about the underlying science!!!
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