Module 2: Genetics and Heredity

Section 2.1: The Blueprint

2.1A: DNA, Chromosomes, Genes and Proteins

Genome British Columbia website:
http://www.genomicseducation.ca/

2.1B: Making Proteins and the Genetic Code

Build a DNA Molecule: It's easy, it's fun, and it just takes a minute or so.
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units/basics/builddna/

Race the Cell: Here you will observe how DNA is duplicated, and attempt to build proteins faster than a cell can. 
http://www.genomicseducation.ca/games.htm

Section 2.2: Heredity

2.2A: Mendel and the Laws of Inheritance

Mendel’s Paper (English—Annotated)
http://www.mendelweb.org/Mendel.html

Section 2.3: Fetal Development and Mutations

2.3A: Mutations

Canadian Cancer Society—About Cancer
http://www.cancer.ca/ccs/internet/standard/0,3182,3172_369365__langId-en,00.html

Mighty Mutation Maker
http://www.nature.ca/genome/04/0413_e.cfm

2.3B: Fetal Development

Westside Pregnancy Resource Center: Some excellent photographs of fetal development are available from this page.
http://www.wprc.org/fetal.phtml

Fetal Development
http://www2.vhi.ie/topic/developmentguide?%22:%22/+gDcsld)+

Pregnancy Place: from Conception to Birth
http://www.pregnancy-place.com/

ABCs of Pregnancy: resources on pregnancy, childbirth, and baby care for pregnant women and new parents
http://www.abcbirth.com/

Section Assignment 2.3A: Research Project

Option 1: The Positive, Neutral, and Negative Effects of Mutations

Are Mutations Harmful?
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mutations.html#Q1

Mutations
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/M/Mutations.html

Bacterial Mutations
http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/BC/Bacterial_Mutations.html

Option 2: The Humane Genome Project

Genomics and Its Impact on Medicine and Society: 2001 Primer: There's so much information in this site that you will likely be there quite a long time. But don't restrict yourself to this one perspective.
http://www.genomicseducation.ca/

Ensembl Genome Broswer: A source of a number of URLs for the Human Genome Project .
http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/index.html

Genomics British Columbia: This site provides more information in a user-friendly format, from a Canadian perspective.
http://www.genomicseducation.ca

United Streaming: If you or your school has a license to this service, two excellent video resources are available to watch on-line:
Biologix: Molecular Genetics and the Human Genome Project
Human Genome.
http://www.unitedstreaming.com