All resources organized according to the chapters in the Zero to Genetic Engineering Hero journey!
📖 Resources for this chapter include experiment instructions, a follow-along video, quizzes, a simulator, a lesson guide & more.
In this chapter, your students will learn to:
- Extract and see real genomic DNA from strawberries using the DNA extraction kit
- Assemble a DNA structure utilizing a drag and drop simulator,
- Discover 'What is DNA?', 'What is DNA's function?', and 'What is DNA made of?'
- The history of DNA, its evolution, the road to precisely editing DNA and its future
- Understand how DNA can be used in biotechnology to create products
- Understand how atoms, molecules, macromolecules (nucleic acid), and nucleotides come into play.
¶ Chapter 2 Safety and setting up your lab space
📖 Resources for this chapter include lab safety video, a safety quiz, a simulator, a lesson guide, ethics activities and video/articles discussion prompts.
In this chapter, your students will learn to:
- Learn about the 4 Biosafety levels & how to stay safe & responsible during your biotechnology science projects
- Discover the rules & regulations in biotechnology
- Set up your own lab - What type of laboratory equipment is necessary? What kind of locations can be used for a safe & responsible biotechnology lab
- Learn how to inactivate your biotechnology science experiments and clean up your laboratory
- Download a laboratory safety checklist, a biosafety poster, and a biosecurity poster
- Understand the ethics, lab safety & best practices surrounding genetic engineering and biotechnology.
📖 Resources for this chapter include experiment instructions, follow-along videos, quizzes, a simulator, a lesson guide & more.
In this chapter, your students will learn to:
- Grow colorful, friendly lab-strain of bacteria and use it to make bioart in a virtual simulator and then in real-life using the Canvas kit (optional hands-on)
- Learn the difference between safe laboratory E. coli vs. ‘bad’ E. coli and its history
- Learn 'What is a cell?'
- Tour the cell structure using the Cells as (micro) factories analogy - a comparison between factories and cells.
- Discover the role of macromolecules: carbs, lipids, proteins
📖 Resources for this chapter include experiment instructions, follow-along video, quizzes, a simulator, a lesson guide & more.
In this chapter, your students will learn to:
- Engineer bacteria (cells) with a pre-made DNA program in a virtual simulator and then in real-life using the Engineer-it kit (optional hands-on)
- Learn the primary operating environment of a cell,
- Start understanding how cells read DNA: How do cells know how to start, do and stop reading DNA (transcription)
- Discover 'What is a gene?'
- Find out what DNA plasmids are and how to use them in biotechnology.
📖 Resources for this chapter include experiment instructions, breakout exercises and end-of-chapter questions.
In this chapter, your students will learn to:
- Extract the proteins created by your engineer bacteria in real-life using the Extract-it kit so that they can be used in the 'real-world' (optional hands-on)
- Continue understanding how cells know how to start, do and stop reading RNA (translation)
- Discover proteins & enzymes, promoters vs. the ribosomal binding site and the other RNAs (rRNA & tRNA)
- Learn and use the RNA to protein cipher.
📖 Resources for this chapter include experiment instructions, breakout exercises and end-of-chapter questions.
In this chapter, your students will learn to:
- Engineer cells to created small molecules and enzymes to create products like smells and color-changing molecules using the Smell-it kit and the Blue-it kit (optional hands-on)
- Learn the basics of enzymatic chemical reactions
- Understand the Four B’s of cell function in action
- Discover protein enzymes as catalysis in cells
- Learn the basic structure of atoms and the four major types of bonds
- Explorer metabolic pathways and how they are used in genetic engineering and biotechnology.
📖 Resources for this chapter include experiment instructions, breakout exercises and end-of-chapter questions.
In this chapter, your students will learn to:
- Engineer cells or use pre-engineered cells and manually turn on genes using light, chemicals, and heat to understand genetic switched in real-life using the RGB kit, the Induce-it kit and the Heat-it kit (optional hands-on)
- Learn the mechanisms of gene expression
- Revise and apply the coding and non-coding regions of genes knowledge from Ch. 4-5
- Explore a DNA plasmid map
- Start setting the stage for you to design your custom DNA plasmids.