Biotechnology Online Resources
1. Save this file to your personal drive (U:) and add your name to the beginning of
the file name.
2. For EACH of the biotechnology categories below, follow AT LEAST ONE of
the links.
3. Do the activity and/or read the information available.
4. Under the link, DESCRIBE what you did and EXPLAIN what you learned at
the site.
5. CAREFULLY copy (NOT SAVE) the file to the proper class folder in the
“Drop-Off” folder in the “Z” folder. (O:/Z/Drop Off/BiotechOnline/”your
class”)
o Restriction Enzymes & Electrophoresis
 http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/labs/gel/
o Human Genome Project
 http://www.genome.gov/25019885
 http://www.genome.gov/19519278
 Timeliner http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/timeline/
o Sanger Sequencing
 http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEPC/WWC/1994/dn
a_sequencing.php
 http://www.tool4learning.com/ejones/Genetics/DNA%20Se
quencing%20Lab.doc
 http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/WYW/wkbooks/S
FTS/activity7.php
o Genetic Engineering
 http://tre.ngfl.gov.uk/uploads/materials/20207/making%20h
uman%20insulin%20using%20bacteria.doc
 http://www.kscience.co.uk/animations/making_insulin.htm
 http://tre.ngfl.gov.uk/uploads/materials/20206/genetic%20en
gineering%20cut%20and%20paste.doc
 http://tre.ngfl.gov.uk/uploads/materials/20205/biotechnolog
y.doc
 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/harvest/engineer/transgen.html
o Cloning
 http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/tech/cloning/whatisclo
ning/twinning.html
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 http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/tech/cloning/whatisclo
ning/scnt.html
 http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/tech/cloning/clickandc
lone/
Stem Cells
 http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/tech/stemcells/scintro/
 http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/tech/stemcells/sctypes/
Transgenic (“Knockout”) Mice
 http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/tech/transgenic/
Karyotyping & Chromosomal Disorders
 http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/traits/karyotype/
Pedigrees & Human Traits
 http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/traits/ptc/
Sex-linked Inheritance
 http://www.kscience.co.uk/animations/drosophila1.htm
DNA Extraction & Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
 http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/labs/extraction/
 http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/labs/pcr/
Gene Therapy
 http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/tech/genetherapy/gttoo
ls/
 http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/tech/genetherapy/spac
edoctor/
DNA Microarray
 http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/labs/microarray/