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

An overview of Huntington's disease, including history of disease, characteristics of disorder, nature of mutation, treatment, and son on.

This detailed article from the Nobel e-Museum explores Thomas Hunt Morgan's career and research in genetics. Read how Morgan's work influenced later scientists and the modern scientific world.

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.

An indepth introduction to genetics as a whole with sample lessons, vocabulary, and bibliography. From the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.

This Biotechnology Institute issue focuses on the role of genetics in cancer. Find out about several types of cancer, the risks, treatments available now, and the treatments of the future.

Provides some very straight forward information regarding genetic information an DNA. Find out about synthesizing proteins, the Central Dogma of molecular biology, and much more.

Students will use a Sickle Cell Anemia case study to learn about allele frequencies, genetics, and molecular biology.

An advanced lesson plan that describes the role of mutations in the birth and death of genes. It includes background information, examples, video clips, and animations.

Why did sex evolve? The likely answers, in this essay written for the PBS series "Evolution" by science journalist Matt Ridley, may surprise you.

Stem cells found in the bone marrow are crucial for our health because they are needed to become new blood cells that sustain and protect our bodies. But when the transformation goes wrong, harmful mutations can cause the cells to start...

Explore natural selection by controlling the environment and causing mutations in bunnies.

This is a great lesson plan that combines Karoytypes and evolution. Students will recognize that the chromosomes of chimpanzees and humans are remarkably similar, then correlate that to their evolutionary relationship.

Discusses conditions needed for the Hardy-Weinberg Law to hold true and demonstrates calculations involving allelic frequencies to illustrate this principle.

Background image of normal disc-shaped red blood cells from the University of Utah. Inset shows sickled red blood cells, curved and rigid, from the Virginia Medical College.

Learn all about Marfan Syndrome at this colorful, simple, interactive sight. Includes video options.

Discover what Tay-Sachs disease is and how to treat it.

A good background on base pair mutations as a whole, with an example and explanation of what a silent mutation is.

Explains what chromosomes are, their structure, their functions within a cell, and the health impact of mutations in a gene sequence.

Although Woolly Mammoths have been extinct for thousands of years, scientists continue to learn more and more about this mighty animal. Some of the most exciting new research is being produced by looking at DNA extracted from the hair...

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

Constructing phylogenetic trees may be a daunting task for students, but this lesson plan is a simulation of what molecular biologists must do to determine relationships. This plan is for students who have a good grasp of DNA structure...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes three of the four forces of evolution: mutation, gene flow, and genetic drift.

This site explores the history and the science of DNA. Content also examines and considers the possibilities of genetic engineering and mutation.