Classroom Resources

This activity explores images of animals with a mutation that affects coloration, which serve as phenomena for learning about skin color genetics and evolution.

This interactive module explores niche partitioning, a mechanism that enables similar species of animals to coexist.

This video describes how scientists silence different genes in regenerating planaria to study the process of regeneration at the molecular level.

This video shows a technique used to obtain detailed images of nerve cells by fluorescent microscopy.

This animation shows how somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) creates an embryo from an egg cell and a body cell.

This interactive, modular lab explores the techniques used to make transgenic flies and demonstrates how these flies can be used to study gene expression.

This interactive, modular lab explores the tools that doctors use to examine and diagnose patients with heart conditions.

This interactive, modular lab explores how the ELISA method can be used to test blood samples for evidence of certain diseases.