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Mind-boggling progress has been made in our ability to sequence a genome accurately and quickly, and in our ability to process and understand the huge amount of data that sequencing produces. What do these developments mean for each of us – our health, our identity, and the world we live in – now and in the future...
Content includes: chromosome structure, karyotypes, amino acids, protein structure and function, nucleotides, DNA structure and genes, cell division: mitosis, meiosis, non-disjunction in meiosis, DNA replication, genomes, gene expression in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, the genetic code.
Genes and You
Published by the Wellcome Trust in 1997, this book provides challenging ways of incorporating scientific information into social situations. Teachers' notes complement the student activity sheets in a series of real-life scenarios.
...Genes and You
There are three questions on this worksheet about genes, what they control and how we inherit them. A choice of answers is presented for children to shade in the correct one and there are pictures to support reading.
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These videos and supporting activities have been reviewed by teachers and piloted in schools, and are designed to increase awareness and understanding of genetic disorders and to explain how differences in our genes help to make everyone unique. By encouraging acceptance and tolerance of difference, these resources...
Genes Factsheet
This poster-style handout provides information about genes for children, explaining how genes are instructions for building proteins, how genetic disorders can happen and how many genes we have in our cells. The sheet was produced by Genetic Disorders UK, which provides schools with a host of free resources for...
Genes in 3D
A 3D movie that journeys into the human cell revealing a gene.
Courtesy: National Human Genome Research Institute.
This resource is part of the Post 16 genetics and...
Genes, genomes and health *suitable for home teaching*
Published by the Wellcome Trust, the 'Big Picture' explores issues around biology and medicine.
In recent years, great progress has been made in genome sequencing and understanding the huge amount of data produced....
Genetic code
A 3-D movie that journeys into the human cell revealing the genetic code.
Courtesy: National Human Genome Research Institute
This resource is part of the Post 16 genetics and genomics collection of resources.