Learn.Genetics have some very nice animations and exercises that deal with DNA, genes and protein synthesis. At the moment, I’m finding the following particularly useful:
- Instruction on how to extract DNA from anything, (I’m going to use this as a lab and perhaps to make pea soup too) and specifically, from people (inside of your cheek).
- What makes a firefly glow animation. It’s a bit dense, but complements the transcribe and translate a gene exercise nicely.
- The Observable Traits Slideshow identifies some of the same traits we look for in our exercises: dimples, handedness, etc. (they have a quick reference pdf.
- There are a bunch of great traits activities, including family tree building, and traits bingo.