DNA and Gene Sequence Practical - Guess Who!

Mini practical session for 11-16 year olds about the DNA sequence of genes.

This project is maintained by passdan

DNA and Gene Sequence Practical - Guess Who!

Mini practical session for 11-16 year olds about how we learn about the DNA sequence of genes. Estimated time: 15 minutes, expandable to 1 hour. Full documentation below! Or jump straight to the perl script here!

Practical setup

Objectives

Resources and setup

Computer Setup

Running the session

After a brief intro, the session follows these stages. Usually I assign one kid to each stage and then rotate roles but alternatively each child could do the full run with their gene:

Hopefully this may be of use to some people. On the first day I had one "This is really cool", one that wanted to see how the program was made, and generally them all wanting to do the different roles.

There is also the ability to load in other datasets than just 'Human Faces' (default). Some ideas were 'see what food this animal has been eating from it's poo' or 'create an animal', and is simple to modify.

Comments appreciated. Daniel