How do doctors fight a virus that's constantly mutating? Show science scholars how we fight HIV using one of its own most fundamental processes through a thoughtful demonstration. The lesson focuses on how protease inhibitors prevent HIV...

This exam covers every topic in a typical first-year biology course. A wide variety of question styles gives high schoolers every opportunity to show what they know. Why start from scratch when a comprehensive final exam is easily...

The average AP Biology score dropped in 2018 with the addition of more data tables and graphs. Offer additional practice free-response questions by using the questions from the 2018 AP exam covering phylogenetic trees, cell structure and...

In this environmental worksheet, students complete a series of multiple-choice and short-answer questions on cell types, cell division, chromosomes, and plant species.

What's the link between lactase persistence and dairy farming? Biology scholars analyze data to find evidence of the connection, then relate this to human adaptation. Working individually and in small groups, learners view short video...

With AP Biology remaining the most popular AP science exam, many teachers need help preparing. The College Board offers the actual free-response questions from the 2017 test covering pollination, germination, and more. Scholars learn the...

Build a gene network. The lac operon is a set of genes which are responsible for the metabolism of lactose in some bacterial cells. Explore the effects of mutations within the lac operon by adding or removing genes from the DNA.

A complete, student-paced lesson on genetics and inheritance. Students work their way through illustrations and animated tutorials, and answer review questions along the way. There is a self-checking quiz at the end of the lesson.

Practice questions over genetic mutations- Passage 1.

A webpage briefly explaining how a mutation in DNA and RNA can cause the wrong protein to be synthesized. Understand that DNA & RNA are long string of nucleotides that codes protein. The mutations shown include deletion, duplication,...

Read this passage and complete a five-question quiz pertaining to collagen mutations resulting in Osteogenesis Imperfecta.

Mutations can cause a permanent change in the DNA of an organism. Over many generations, organisms have adapted through mutation which involves small changes between organisms which may allow that organism to compete better for survival....

This article contains information on how DNA is repaired to prevent mutated damage from interrupting DNA processes.

Given illustrations or partial DNA sequences, students will identify changes in DNA and the significance of these changes.