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Groovy DNA Beads

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Learners create models of DNA and RNA using string and beads. They use beads representing the four nitrogenous bases of DNA to create a portion of a strand of DNA, and it's corresponding RNA. Then, students examine how many of their strands it would take to represent and actual strand of DNA and the number of bases it has.

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dna, deoxyribonucleic acid, ribonucleic acid, rna, chromosomes

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chromosomes, dna, dna base pairs, rna, science
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7th - 10th
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Science
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