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Biotechnology in the Classroom: a PCR and cloning lab module.
Equipment and reagents for this module are made available on loan through the
Department of Biochemistry
at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Western University, London, Ontario Canada.

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Educational Resources

Animated clips that explain PCR, DNA restriction, gel electrophoresis, DNA transformation:

http://www.dnalc.org/resources/animations/index.html

Molecular Biology Cyberlab - http://www.life.illinois.edu/molbio/index.html

Access Excellence
http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/GG/restriction.php
Restriction Enzyme ECoR1

http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/GG/
From Gene to Function

Bioinformatics - http://www.biogateway.gc.ca/
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/research/informatics.shtml

Bioinformatics is the application of computers to solve biological questions. Over the past few years, this field has become one of the fastest growing areas of scientific enquiry. This field is an old branch of science that until recently was starved for data. The completion of several genome sequences, including S. cerevisiae (yeast), D. melanogaster (fly), C. elegans (roundworm), and H. sapiens (human) has completely reversed this problem. Now, bioinformaticians are overloaded with data and are working feverishly to make sense of it.

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Science Curriculum 2009 - http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/secondary/2009science11_12.pdf

Biotechnology in the Classroom is coordinated and supported by the
Department of Biochemistry in the
Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, at
Western University, London, Ontario Canada.