bio233, 20150910Thu ch4, mole biol, part 1

Prep:
SPDB viewer to flash drives
HP laptops
Playdough for major grooves demo, right hand helix.

2:30-3pm, student draw central dogma. I showed my example to give students hints. I went over the slides during the drawing activity.
Problems:  Two students put start and stop codons to transcription.

10 minutes, SWISS PDB Viers on 5' and 3'end of DNA strand.
Problems: I forgot to tell the color code to the students. I save this by writing the code on the board.

30 minutes, playdoug on right handed DNA double helices.
Problems: 3 out of 8 groups made left-hand helices.

The class stopped at DNA double helices.

http://hongqinlab.blogspot.com/2014/03/bio233-ch6-dna-helices-bases-3d.html
http://hongqinlab.blogspot.com/2014/09/bio233-20140930-ch5-continued-and-ch6.html
http://hongqinlab.blogspot.com/2015/01/bio125-tue-jan-20-2015-dna-structure.html