Conservation genetics-Activities

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Activities \| Conservation genetics – molecular detectives at work

Biotechnology Australia
- Extracting DNA in your kitchen – students extract DNA from an onion. (PDF file)
Science upd8 (UK)
- Perfect pumpkin – students look at the variety of pumpkins, the causes of variation and use selective breeding principles to develop new pumpkin varieties.
Access Excellence (USA)
- Sampling variation in a natural population
- Agarose gel DNA quantitation – electrophoresis of DNA using an agarose gel.
- DNA profile analysis – PCR amplification and agarose gel electrophoresis of cheek cell DNA. (Complicated and expensive – not for the faint-hearted.)
Xpeditions (National Geographic, USA)
- Can captive breeding save species? – this lesson asks students to research and assess captive-breeding programs and species-survival plans by zoos.

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Page updated November 2006.