55 56 57 58 59 60 CATTACA (rhymes with GATTACA)

Genetic Engineering.  Changing our (or something else's) DNA.

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!!!