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Insertion Events

Insertion Events. Integrating Bioinformatics Activities Into Existing Biology Courses. General Biology I (Cell Biology and Genetics). Biological Molecules Have students find a gene and its protein. Cell Structure Have students find the genes needed to create a cellular structure. Enzymes

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Insertion Events

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  1. Insertion Events Integrating Bioinformatics Activities Into Existing Biology Courses

  2. General Biology I (Cell Biology and Genetics) • Biological Molecules • Have students find a gene and its protein. • Cell Structure • Have students find the genes needed to create a cellular structure. • Enzymes • Have students find the genes for a specific pathway.

  3. General Biology II(Evolution, Diversity, Ecology) • Improve existing hemoglobin activity • Add computer tree building and structural comparisons • Current lab: Use SDS-PAGE to analyze fish protein similarity and create a cladogram. • Use bioinformatics to support/refute cladogram using molecular data for various muscle proteins. • Add semester-long environmental sampling project?

  4. Foundations of Biotechnology • Primary focus of lab component is to isolate, clone, over-express and purify a microbial amylase. • “Searching for Amylase” in Microbes Count! • Introduces students to Biology Workbench and the use of various analysis tools (Ndjinn, BLAST, CLUSTALW, ConSurf?) • Generates many important questions • What function(s) does this enzyme serve? • Would some amylases make better industrial enzymes than others? Why? • Etc.!

  5. Honors Independent Study • Write a “contract” outlining an annotation activity.

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