Sickle Cell Anemia Investigation: Day 5
Today did not go too well. I must remind myself that it is quite a lot for students to jump from DNA to mRNA to Protein Shape & Function to Cell Shape to bodily function. Still, I think today...
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Today we had to retreat back to notes just to get clarity on what was going on. I simply had the students answer the first guiding question with notes. “How does the gene for sickle cell anemia cause...
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Today we practiced using a micropipet and loading fluid into the wells of gels. I used several resources from miniPCR to do this. First of all, this is an amazing video resource to help teach your...
View ArticleSickle Cell Anemia Investigation: Day 8/9
This was a day where we did gel electrophoresis. I got my Sickle Cell test kits from Minione. This is the same supplier that we got our gel electrophoresis units from. I ran a kit which wasn’t anything...
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