Bryn Mawr College
Serendip: From Gene to Protein Transcription and Translation
Brief text summary of what students learn in the Dragon Genetics II lab along with links to download Student Handouts in PDF and Word formats, and Teacher Preparation Notes in PDF format. Students use paper models to learn transcription...
Education Development Center
Education Development Center: How Does Dna Work?
Learning about transcription and translation can be difficult but this animation helps make the processes less confusing. The animation is interactive and it also covers the overall importance of proteins.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dolan Dna Learning Center: Transcription & Translation: Translation
This animation demonstrates the process of RNA translation that ultimately results in a new protein. [2:04]
CommonLit
Common Lit: Choosing a Warning Label for Human Dna
A learning module that begins with "Choosing a Warning Label for Human DNA" by Charles Wohlforth, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned...
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Reproduction, the Genome and Gene Expression
This lesson focuses on how genes, sections of the DNA, are formed including descriptions of transcription and translation. It provides links to a video and a test.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dolan Dna Learning Center: Transcription Translation: Transcription Advanced
Visualize the main driving force behind molecular biology, where DNA makes RNA, and RNA makes protein. [1:53]
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dolan Dna Learning Center: Transcription & Translation: Triplet Code
DNA has four letters that must specify the 20 different amino acids that make up proteins. This animation shows how using three DNA letters for one amino acid makes the most sense. [1:07]
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dolan Dna Learning Center: Transcription & Translation: Transcription Basic
A brief animation showing the basics of DNA transcription in cells. [1:52]
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dolan Dna Learning Center: Transcription Translation: Central Dogma of Biology
This animation shows how the DNA genetic code leads to proteins that help us develop and function. [2:51]
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dolan Dna Learning Center: Transcription & Translation: Rna Splicing
See how DNA is transcribed into RNA and spliced to remove non-coding regions, leaving only the protein-coding regions, called exons. [1:37]
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dna Learning Center: Transcription & Translation: M Rna Splicing
Once a gene has been located and transcribed into mRNA, it must first be edited before it can be translated into a protein. This editing process is called splicing it involves removing non-coding regions called "introns", leaving only...
Nature Research
Scitable: Nucleic Acid Structure and Function
Get an in-depth look at the importance of DNA with this library of information on nucleic acid structure and function. Understand the structure and function of DNA by exploring topics in the chemical structure of DNA, organization of DNA...
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Codon Chart
Explains the workings of the codon translation chart which provides the keys to the structure of amino acids. Includes a widget where one can input a nucleotide triplet combination and see which amino acid it represents. Includes RNA and...
Nature Research
Scitable: Gene Expression and Regulation
Investigate gene expression with this collection of resources that explains how DNA is expressed to make RNA, how genes are turned "on" and "off", and what must occur for transcription to happen. The webpage explores gene expression by...
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: Protein Synthesis
This Access Excellence diagram of protein synthesis shows both transcription and translation and includes a short description of each.
Bio Topics
Bio Topics: How Dna Controls Protein Synthesis by Means of a Base Code
A worksheet and comprehensive notes discussing how DNA controls protein synthesis by means of a base code.
Estrella Mountain Community College
Estrella Mountain Community College: Protein Synthesis
A look at protein synthesis in words and pictures. This website discusses the processes of replication, transcription, and translation. Also covered is Beadle and Tatum research that explains that one gene codes for one polypeptide....
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dolan Dna Learning Center: Biology: Rna Splicing
A step-by-step animation shows how introns are removed during RNA splicing.
Other
Control of Gene Expression
This site goes through the process from control at DNA to transcription and translation. Some illustrations to help show the process. Links for vocabulary words and other illustrations.
University of Arizona
University of Arizona: Problemas De Icidos Nucleicos Y Material Genetico
Learn the fundamentals of nucleic acids and how they experience the processes of replication and translation with the series of problems presented here. The correct answers have a brief explanation to reinforce the theories and incorrect...
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: What Is a Stop Codon?
A stop codon is a nucleotide triplet in messenger RNA that signals the end of a protein during the translation process. Read about how this works, the different types of stop codons, and how a mutation can sometimes occur.
Biotechnology Institute
Biotechnology Institute: Your World: Plant Biotechnology [Pdf]
As humans try to reach the goal of growing enough food to feed all the people, find out how biotechnology is used to help.
University of Arizona
The Biology Project: Nucleic Acids Problem Set
Interactive resource provides students with an opportunity to work through a problem set over nucleic acids. Correct answers are reinforced with a brief explanation. Incorrect answers are linked to tutorials to help solve the problem.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Central Dogma of Molecular Biology
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This module states and explains the central dogma of molecular biology which was conceived by Francis Crick.