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Life Science: Genetics

Resource Grade Level Media Type
Bt Corn  

Bt Corn
This video segment from FRONTLINE/NOVA: "Harvest of Fear" looks at corn that has been genetically modified to resist one insect pest, and the multiple concerns it raises.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Build a Family Tree  

Build a Family Tree
Both sexes can use this interactive feature that lets you use DNA information from the Y chromosome to complete a male family tree. From the NOVA: "Lost Tribes of Israel" Web site.

9-12 Shockwave Interactive
Classical vs. Transgenic Breeding  

Classical vs. Transgenic Breeding
This video segment from FRONTLINE/NOVA: "Harvest of Fear" explains that genetic engineering and classical breeding both alter the genetic makeup of crop plants.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Create a DNA Fingerprint  

Create a DNA Fingerprint
Learn DNA profiling, the technique police use to catch the guilty and free the innocent. From NOVA: "The Killer's Trail" Web site.

6-12 Shockwave Interactive
Deadly Letters: The Anthrax Mystery  

Deadly Letters: The Anthrax Mystery
In this media rich lesson plan from NOVA scienceNOW, student teams investigate a fictional anthrax case by modeling DNA sequencing and tracking down the guilty lab.

9-12 Lesson Plan
DNA Databases  

DNA Databases
This video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" investigates the promises and concerns surrounding the use of DNA databases.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Engineer a Crop: Transgenic Manipulation  

Engineer a Crop: Transgenic Manipulation
You're the geneticist now. In this interactive feature from the NOVA/FRONTLINE "Harvest of Fear" Web site, use the latest in genetic technology to engineer your own "supercrop" of tomatoes.

9-12 Flash Interactive
Explore a Stretch of Code  

Explore a Stretch of Code
Try your hand at reading a segment of genetic code in this interactive feature from the NOVA "Cracking the Code of Life" Web site.

9-12 Shockwave Interactive
A Family Disease  

A Family Disease
This video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" explores the implications of genetic testing for breast cancer.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Finding Cures Is Hard  

Finding Cures Is Hard
This video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" explains the difficulty of curing genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Finding Disease Genes  

Finding Disease Genes
This video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" explains the process of finding genes that cause disease.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Forensic DNA Analysis  

Forensic DNA Analysis
This video segment from NOVA: "The Killer's Trail" investigates the potential for DNA evidence to solve murder cases, even those from the distant past.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Forensics  

Forensics
Find out how DNA profilers analyze bits of tissue to identify human remains. From NOVA: "Lost on Everest" Web site.

9-12 HTML Document
Geneticist Pardis Sabeti  

Geneticist Pardis Sabeti
In this video profile adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, learn about geneticist and rock musician Pardis Sabeti, whose innovative insights into natural selection demonstrated how beneficial mutations spread quickly through a population.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Genetic Modification  

Genetic Modification
This video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" looks at the potential created by understanding the human genome.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Genetics Case Studies  

Genetics Case Studies
Wrestle with ethical issues concerning genetic rights and practices from the NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" Web site.

9-12 HTML Document
Genetic Variation  

Genetic Variation
This video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" explores the genetic similarities and differences among organisms.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Genome Facts  

Genome Facts
This list from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" Web site provides some of the basic, yet impressive, facts and figures about the Human Genome Project.

9-12 HTML Document
Guess What's Coming to Dinner?  

Guess What's Coming to Dinner?
Browse through a table full of genetically modified (GM) foods to see what's available now and what's to come. From the FRONTLINE/NOVA: "Harvest of Fear" Web site.

9-12 Flash Interactive
HIV Immunity  

HIV Immunity
Although repeatedly exposed to HIV, Steve Crohn's blood cells were never infected. Dr. David Ho investigates in this video segment from NOVA: "Surviving AIDS."

9-12 QuickTime Video
How Cancer Cells Grow and Divide  

How Cancer Cells Grow and Divide
This animation from NOVA: "Battle in the War on Cancer: Breast Cancer" describes how oncogenes cause cancer and how cancerous cells can spread throughout the body.

6-12 QuickTime Video
How Cancer Grows  

How Cancer Grows
Follow the growth of a carcinoma from initial mutation to widespread metastasis in this feature from the NOVA: "Cancer Warrior" Web site.

6-12 Flash Interactive
How Cells Divide: Mitosis vs. Meiosis  

How Cells Divide: Mitosis vs. Meiosis
How exactly does meiosis mix and halve chromosomes? Find out through this feature from NOVA: "18 Ways to Make a Baby," which provides a step-by-step, side-by-side comparison of meiosis and mitosis.

6-12 Flash Interactive
Human Chromosome 2  

Human Chromosome 2
In this video segment adapted from NOVA: "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial," learn how modern genetics and molecular biology offer compelling support for evolution. The video features an interview with biologist Ken Miller.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Human Genome Project  

Human Genome Project
This video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" looks at the meaning and significance of the effort to decode the human genome.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Journey into DNA  

Journey into DNA
Travel deep into the human body to see exactly where your DNA resides. From the NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" Web site.

6-12 Flash Interactive
Marathon Mouse  

Marathon Mouse
In this lesson from NOVA scienceNOW, students explore how our bodies respond to exercise at the cellular level.

9-12 Lesson Plan
Migration of the Monarch  

Migration of the Monarch
This video segment from NOVA: "The Mystery of Animal Pathfinders" explores the migratorial exploits of monarch butterflies.

3-8 QuickTime Video
Nature vs. Nurture Revisited  

Nature vs. Nurture Revisited
Which dictates our existence -- our genetic makeup or the environment we grow up in? Kevin Davies offers an update on this long-standing debate, from the NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" Web site.

9-12 HTML Document
One Wrong Letter  

One Wrong Letter
This video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" describes the genetics of Tay-Sachs disease.

6-12 QuickTime Video
On Human Cloning  

On Human Cloning
Three cloning experts share their opinions in these interviews from the NOVA "18 Ways to Make a Baby." Web site.

9-12 HTML Document
Picky Eaters  

Picky Eaters
In this lesson from NOVA scienceNOW, students take a taste test as they explore the role of genetics in our sense of taste.

9-12 Lesson Plan
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis  

Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
This video segment from NOVA: "18 Ways to Make a Baby" describes a technique used to determine the health of a developing embryo.

9-12 QuickTime Video
The Process of Scientific Experimentation  

The Process of Scientific Experimentation
Students expand their understanding of the "scientific method" of experimentation by watching video accounts of actual scientific research and exploring the factors involved in real scientific processes.

9-12 Lesson Plan
The Reproductive Role of Flowers  

The Reproductive Role of Flowers
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, learn about the critical role of flowers in seed plant reproductive biology.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Risky Genetics  

Risky Genetics
In this lesson from NOVA scienceNOW, students explore genetic testing for specific diseases, and consider the pros and cons of discovering a person's genotype for a particular disease.

9-12 Lesson Plan
RNAi Discovered  

RNAi Discovered
In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, learn how RNAi, a mechanism that has evolved in cells to prevent viral infection, was discovered and how it works.

9-12 QuickTime Video
RNAi Therapy  

RNAi Therapy
In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, learn about RNAi's potential to treat a wide range of genetic and infectious diseases.

9-12 QuickTime Video
The Role of Genetics in Obesity  

The Role of Genetics in Obesity
In this video segment from NOVA scienceNOW, meet researchers who are studying obesity and trying to understand the role that hormones and genetics can play in regulating appetite.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Scent of an Alewife  

Scent of an Alewife
This video segment from NOVA: "Sea Behind the Dunes" tracks the return of spawning alewife fish from the open ocean back to the freshwater streams and ponds where they were born.

3-8 QuickTime Video
Seeing Through Camouflage  

Seeing Through Camouflage
This interactive feature from the NOVA "Leopards" Web site presents a wide variety of ways in which animals use coloration to their advantage.

6-8 Shockwave Interactive
Sequence for Yourself  

Sequence for Yourself
How do researchers read the tiny As, Gs, Ts, and Cs that comprise DNA? This step-by-step explanation shows you. From NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life."

9-12 Flash Interactive
The Sequencing Race Begins  

The Sequencing Race Begins
This video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" looks at one of the key players in the race to decode the human genome.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Should We Grow GM Crops?  

Should We Grow GM Crops?
Learn the pros and cons of genetically modified (GM) crops, and cast your vote on whether they should be grown. From the FRONTLINE/NOVA: "Harvest of Fear" Web site.

9-12 HTML Interactive
Stem Cell Debate  

Stem Cell Debate
This essay from the NOVA "Life's Greatest Miracle" Web site explores the debate over the use of embryonic stem cells in scientific research.

9-12 HTML Document
Stem Cells Breakthrough  

Stem Cells Breakthrough
In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, follow the scientific process that led to a revolutionary method for creating stem cells without the use of human embryos.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Super Salmon  

Super Salmon
This video segment from FRONTLINE/NOVA: "Harvest of Fear" explores genetic modification of salmon and possible consequences.

9-12 QuickTime Video
T. Rex Blood?  

T. Rex Blood?
Learn about the surprising finding of preserved soft tissue in dinosaur fossils—including possible blood vessels and red blood cells—in this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Viewpoints: Harvest of Fear  

Viewpoints: Harvest of Fear
What do the experts say about genetically modified (GM) foods? Read these interview excerpts from the FRONTLINE/NOVA: "Harvest of Fear" Web site to find out.

9-12 HTML Document
Who Owns the Genome?  

Who Owns the Genome?
This video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" examines the social and ethical implications of genome research.

9-12 QuickTime Video