Worksheets

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Textbook assignment

Step 1:

Read Chapter 15, all pages, in your text and answer the related questions on your worksheets.

Textbook publisher's web activities

Step 2: Complete the following activities from the textbook publisher's website. Answer the related questions on your worksheet. These activities are from a previous edition of your textbook - that's OK. (Note: Only complete the activities listed below, not all of the activities for each text chapter.)

Chapter 15 textbook publisher's web activities

• 15.1 Gene Activity
• 15.3 - ESP - Transcription (Real Player required)
• 15.3 - ESP - Translation (Real Player required)
• 15.4 - Art Quiz - Introns and Exons
• 15.4 - Gene information processing - Prokaryotes
• 15.4 - Gene information processing - Eukaryotes
  
  

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Lab activities

Complete the following activities and answer the related questions on your worksheet.

Step 3: Complete Internet Activity - Transcribing and Translating DNA
(no points, but important for your exam)

Step 4: Complete Internet Activity - Nucleic Acids Problem Set
(no points, but important for your exam)

Step 5: Complete In-Class Activity - Gel Electrophoresis of Dyes
(for lab points)

Step 6: Complete In-Class Activity - DNA Fingerprinting
(for lab points)

Self quiz

Step 7: Review material from lesson 12 to prepare for your exam.

Use the self-quiz below to review material from lesson 12 that will be on your exam. These questions are similar, but not identical, to questions on your exam.

Click here to begin the multiple choice self-quiz for lesson 12

Optional

DNA Workshop - You Try It
This PBS website is a great interactive review of DNA replication (from lesson 11) and protein synthesis. Read the introduction, the click on "DNA Workshop Activity".

Online Biology Book - Protein Synthesis
Mike Farabee's online text pulls together many different resources. This section includes the one-gene, one protein idea, and transcription and translation.

Ribosome Structure and Function
This site highlights the ribosome, the cellular structure involved with translating mRNA.