Education & the Barcode of Life. Forensic Science Simplified. How to work with Drosophila. The Natural Science for Teachers Program (formerly General Biology Program for Teachers) offers graduate-level online courses and enrichment opportunities for teachers. The program was designed to address the needs of middle and high school science teachers for graduate-level courses that meet many school districts’ requirements for salary increment credit. Currently we offer 2 educational tracks: Biology and Chemistry. In addition, we hope to expand further in the future to offer a Geoscience track as well as a Physical Science track. Upcoming online courses are listed under Course Descriptions.
Teachers may participate two ways: 1) Through our non-degree program, teachers may update their content knowledge without having to earn a M.S degree, or through the 2) M.S. in Natural Science for Teachers: This innovative Masters Degree Program takes place online primarily over the summers, so that teachers need to complete only minimal course work while they are teaching. The Fruit Fly and Genetics. Personals: ♀ FF, Se/E/Dp, seeks ♂ FF, +/+/+ for short term relationship. Enjoys romance, fermentation, and long walks on the peach... You know those annoying little bugs that like to get in your fruit if you leave it on the counter? Well they're called Drosophila melanogaster (or just fruit flies) and they've been used to study genetics for over 100 years.
This interactive website is designed to introduce biology students to research on model organisms while reviewing genetics basics. Learning about Genetics Using Flies Model organisms are species that are studied to understand the biology of other organisms, often humans. Fruit flies share 75% of the genes that cause disease with humans, so scientists can learn about human genetics by studying fruit fly genetics. Fruit flies in vials with media. Low Maintenance Creatures Knocking Them Out The fruit flies do fly, of course, so they have to be knocked out before they come out of their vials.
Teach.Genetics™ National Center for Biotechnology Information. Cracking the Code of Life. Cracking the Code of Life PBS Airdate: April 17, 2001 ROBERT KRULWICH: When I look at this—and these are the three billion chemical letters, instructions for a human being—my eyes glaze over. But when scientist Eric Lander looks at this he sees stories. ERIC LANDER (Whitehead Institute/MIT): The genome is a storybook that's been edited for a couple billion years. And you could take it to bed like A Thousand and One Arabian Nights, and read a different story in the genome every night.
ROBERT KRULWICH: This is the story of one of the greatest scientific adventures ever, and at the heart of it is a small, very powerful molecule, DNA. For the past ten years, scientists all over the world have been painstakingly trying to read the tiny instructions buried inside our DNA. J. ROBERT KRULWICH: And what it's telling us is so surprising and so strange and so unexpected. ERIC LANDER: How different are you from a banana? ERIC LANDER: You may feel different... ROBERT KRULWICH: I eat a banana. We asked Dr. Ghost in Your Genes. New Genetic Twist: 4-Stranded DNA Lurks in Human Cells. Sixty years after scientists described the chemical code of life — an interweaving double helix called DNA — researchers have found four-stranded DNA is also lurking in human cells.
The odd structures are called G-quadruplexes because they form in regions of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) that are full of guanine, one of the DNA molecule's four building blocks, with the others being adenine, cytosine, thymine. The structure comprises four guanines held together by a type of hydrogen bonding to form a sort of squarelike shape. (The DNA molecule is itself a double strand held together by these building blocks and wrapped together like a helix.) The new visualization of the G-quadruplex is detailed this week in the journal Nature Chemistry. "I think this paper is important in showing directly the existence of this structure in vivo in the human genome, but it is not completely unexpected," said Hans-Joachim Lipps, of the University of Witten in Germany, who was not involved in the study.
Personal Genetics Education Project. Genetics Home Reference - Your guide to understanding genetic conditions. Learn.Genetics™ Human Genome Project Information. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Genetics. Genetic. Epigenetics / 4DN.