This week we spent a bit of time doing a small lab. Using simple materials such as rubbing alcohol, dish soap and gatorade we were able to actually see our very own DNA. It's pretty amazing to think that those teeny tiny little threads contain all the information that makes us us and makes us work.
For homework this week, let's get creative!
From looking at today's quizzes it looks like we could still spend some time with protein synthesis. I want you to imagine that you are teaching a class of 5th graders and you need to come up with a way for them to understand how protein synthesis works. I want you to come up with a story, a comic, a movie, a poster, a song, an interpretive dance (like today's video), a painting, a picture made from pasta, a diorama made out of pizza, a sculpture, sky writing ANYTHING that you feel would teach all the steps of protein synthesis to your class. Be sure to start your story in the nucleus of the cell and end your story with a new bouncing baby protein. Along the way you must describe and define; cell nucleus, cytoplasm, translation, transcription, mRNA, tRNA, codons, ribosomes, amino acids, proteins, and RNA polymerase. Pages 206 to 209 in your book has as nice description if you need.
This will be graded as a normal 10 point assignment but if you really go above and beyond with this I'd be happy to give some extra credit. Good luck and have fun.
Best,
Jim Mueller
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