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Go to pdb101.rcsb.org to: • READ the Molecule of the Month on DNA • DOWNLOAD additional copies of this model, and WATCH a video demonstration of how to build it ( Learn > Paper models )
DNA Paper Model Activity Level: Grade 6-8 Students will be able to: 1. Identify the component molecules of DNA. 2. Construct a model of the DNA double-helix. 3. Identify which bases are found in pairs in the DNA double-helix. 4. Predict the appearance of a complimentary strand of DNA when given half of a double-helix molecule.
CSIRO DNA model - Edublogs • DNA model template (pdf - 0.35mb) What is DNA? Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a molecule that contains all the information to determine who you are and what you look like. The chemical compound that makes up DNA was first discovered by Friedrich Miescher in Germany around 1869. In 1953, Francis Crick and James ...
The document provides instructions for building a model of DNA using paper cutouts. Students cut out templates representing the DNA components - deoxyribose sugars, phosphate groups, and the four nitrogen bases (adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine).
In this activity, students build a paper model of DNA and use their model to explore key structural features of the DNA double helix. This activity can be used to complement the short film The Double Helix, which examines some of the evidence that James Watson and Francis Crick used to determine the double-helical structure of DNA.
Imagine DNA as a twisted ladder. The outside of the ladder is made up of alternating sugar and phosphate molecules. The sugar is called deoxyribose. THe rungs of the ladder are made of a pair of molecules called bases. There are four bases in DNA: adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine.
DNA is perfect for the storage and readout of genetic information, which is stored in the way the bases match one another on opposite sides of the double helix. Adenine (A) pairs with
