DO NOW 1. Please glue in pages 114 and Please update your Table of Contents (page 111) to include: 1/ DNA Structure
BITSTRIPS DEMONSTRATION You tell the computer its instructions, and it makes the person exactly how you want!
WHAT IF... What if we did this for every single human being on Earth?
The chemical that determines ALL our inherited traits
POP QUIZ What does DNA not determine? 1. your eye color 2. whether your hair is straight or curly 3. the tattoo you got when you were your fingernail shape
POP QUIZ What does DNA not determine? 1. your eye color 2. whether your hair is straight or curly 3. the tattoo you got when you were your fingernail shape
TOMORROW We'll be breaking DNA out of strawberry cells!
What part of the cell holds these super powerful instructions?
nucleus
DIRECTIONS Read the DNA excerpt (including pictures and captions!) and fill in the boxes!
We're making a DNA model!
DIRECTIONS -Using the items you are given, please create a candy DNA model with your partners. You can make it however you'd like, as long as it ends up looking like DNA!
DIRECTIONS -on your sticky, write down ONE inherited trait you have. -put the sticky on one of your model DNA's genes!
POP QUIZ Gene+Gene+Gene+Gene+Gene = 1. DNA 2. Chromosomes 3. Genes 4. Acquired Traits
POP QUIZ Gene+Gene+Gene+Gene+Gene = 1. DNA 2. Chromosomes 3. Genes 4. Acquired Traits
LAST PART If we laid out all our DNA end to end, how far would it stretch?
LAST PART If we laid out all our DNA end to end, how far would it stretch? To the sun and back THREE times!
Why do we need chromosomes?
THE FINAL WORD Genes make up DNA. DNA is packaged into chromosomes Please complete page 114!