Cottonwood Seeds Falling From Sky

FS-Tree Test

Field Trip to Shellberg Falls-4/10/08

Butte Creek Falls Field Trip-3/25/08

Audubon Nature Reserve Field Trip-3/6/08

Build a DNA Molecule!

While searching for good materials for teaching cell biology, I found this good site for learning how nucleotides fit together. DNA code is partly based on the unique ways each nucleotide pairs only with its complimentary nucleotides!

Try the game and you can see easier than I can explain in writing how they are like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle!

Build a DNA Molecule

Strawberry DNA and musical giraffes

We are about to begin a new week, the last full week before Winter Break. Ryan and I have an interesting, if not cool, experiment related to DNA and genetics planned. The plan is to extract the DNA from a strawberry. Hmmm.....

• Some playful geneticists have made music based on the DNA sequence from various animals and plants. The link below is for a "song" based on the DNA of a specific protein from the eye of a giraffe:

• Play Song

• The New York Times published a story today about a new career option for folks who like science, "Genetic counselors". There are over 1,000 genetic tests a person can get these days. Most of us need somebody to explain it to us. Average saleries are about $58,000/year. the article is at the folowing link:

  "A Field That Interprets the Language of Genes"