Transcription and Translation Made Easy

"Transcription and Translation Made Easy" is an interactive whole-class activity that follows the transfer of information from the DNA to protein formation. The activity uses letters as parts of words as an analogy for amino acids as parts of proteins to allow the students to observe the type of mutations that may occur and the level of damage that each can cause.
Resource ID#: 75969 Type: Lesson Plan
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General Information

Subject(s): Science
Grade Level(s): 9, 10, 11, 12
Intended Audience: Educators educators
Instructional Time: 1 Hour(s) 30 Minute(s)
Resource supports reading in content area:Yes
Freely Available: Yes
Keywords: transcription, translation, codon, anticodon, mRNA, tRNA, amino acid, polypeptide, point mutation, deletion, addition, frame-shift mutation, RNA polymerase
Instructional Component Type(s): Lesson Plan,  Problem-Solving Task,  Assessment,  Image/Photograph,  Formative Assessment
Resource Collection: FCR-STEMLearn Diversity and Ecology

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