THAMES & KOSMOS Genetics & Dna Lab: Head into the lab for an in-depth investigation of genetics, the branch of biology focused on heredity - 665007

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Head into the lab for an in-depth investigation of genetics, the branch of biology focused on heredity and variation in organisms, and DNA, the acid that holds the blueprints for life.

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• See genetic material with your own eyes as you isolate the DNA from a tomato in a test tube. 

• Investigate inheritance and learn how traits are passed down from parents to children.

• Learn about dominant and recessive genes and play inheritance games to determine how traits will be expressed.

• Learn about the biology of reproduction, the components of cells, and how chromosomes are combined and copied.

• Assemble a model to see the elegant double-stranded herical structure of DNA.

• Then crack the genetic code and find out how the different parts, called nucleotides, fit together.

• Analyze DNA evidence to identify suspects and solve a crime.

• Breed your own bacteria colony to experiment with survival of the fittest.

• Read about how mutation affects genes and how scientists clone plants and animals.

• Full-color, 48-page manual.