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It will show you how to build a DNA model using pipe cleaners to help your child understand the structure of DNA and how it encodes information.
Constructing a DNA Model OBJECTIVE: Construct a model of DNA in order to accurately show each of its components. TASK: You will be using fishing line, dried pasta, and pipe cleaners to build your model of DNA. MATERIALS KEY: Round pasta – sugar molecule Ziti pasta – phosphate molecule Red pipe cleaner – adenine White pipe cleaner – thymine
Activity: BUILDING A MODEL DNA. Purpose: To help you understand how sugars, phosphates and bases fit together to form DNA, you and your partner will make a model of DNA with string, dried pasta, and different colored pipe cleaners. Class Copy. Objectives: Students will... s.
25 paź 2022 · To make a DNA model using supplies you probably already have, take 4 pipe cleaners and cut 2 of them into 2-inch strips. Then, add beads in 2 alternating colors down the length of the full-length pipe cleaners, leaving ½ inch spaces.
Instructions: 1. Gather the following materials: - 2 pipe cleaners that are the same colour (the backbone of the DNA) - 4 pipe cleaners that are all different colours (the 4 bases) – cut these into five pieces each. 2. Create your DNA model, making sure that the bases are correctly paired based on their colour. 3. On your model, be sure to label...
• Build a model DNA strand. • Analyze the model to see what each of the components represents. • Analyze the model to see what properties of actual DNA are not represented
Using the instruction sheet learners should decide which coloured pipe cleaner represents each DNA base and also keep in mind its correlating pair. Any cuts that need to be made should then be done. Once cut to shape the pairs of colours should be matched and the ends twisted together.
