DNA webquest
By Amy Keller
1) Go to the
following website: http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/genome/
2) Click on the “Next” button.
3) Describe 4 things DNA does for your body.
4) Click on the “Next” button.
5) Where are the instructions for building your body, stored?
6) Click on “Take a closer look”
7) Click on the hand.
8) Click on the skin picture
9) What are the building blocks called that make up your skin?
10) Click on the skin cells.
11) List 3 types of cells.
12) Click on the skin cells.
13) Where is the DNA held?
14) What is the nucleus like?
15) Click on the cell.
16) Click on the nucleus.
17) If you stretched out the DNA from ONE cell, how long would it be?
18) Click on the DNA “spaghetti.”
19) What shape are chromosomes in?
20) Click on the “next” button.
21) What are chromosomes formed from?
22) What do chromosomes contain?
23) Click on the “next” button.
24) IF you unraveled all your chromosomes from all your cells, it would stretch how far?
25) Click on the “next” button.
26) What did James Watson conclude?
27) What did Watson and Francis Crick figure out about DNA?
28) What is the shape of DNA called?
29) Click on the “next” button.
30) What did Rosalind Franklin do?
31) Why do scientists often debate about Rosalind Franklin?
32) Click on the “next” button.
33) Does DNA dissolve in water?
34) Click on the “next” button.
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36) What carries the information used to make the body operate?
37) What are these chemicals?
38) What is a human genome?
39) Click on the “next” button.
40) What is the order of the DNA bases called?
41) Why is this order SO important for your body?
42) Click on the “next” button.
43) On the X-ray, what does each dark band represent?
44) On the X-ray, what does each row of bands represent?
45) Why would scientists like to complete the map of the human genome?
46) Click on the “next” button.
47) How many bases does your body have?
48) Click on the “next” button.
49) Click on “Search for the Sequence.”
50) What 3 diseases have scientists found the sequence for?
51) Read the directions and play the game.
52) Click on the “next” button.
53) Click on “Be a Parent”
54) Read the scenario and answer the question.
55) Click on the “next” button.
56) Read the scenario and answer the question.
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58) Read the scenario and answer the question.
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60) Read the scenario and answer the question.
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Pictures
Please place both of these pictures on ONE word document.
a. An electron microscope picture of a DNA molecule.
b. A comic strip/cartoon relating to DNA.