Some excellent interactive animations & tutorials on DNA & Protein Synthesis – just click on ‘Tour the Basics’ & ‘DNA to Protein’.
DNA: The book of You, a TEDEd lesson by Joe Hanson.
Topic 7 Nucleic Acids
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Category Archives: 7. Nucleic Acids
7.1 DNA Structure & Replication
7.1 dna & replication from Bob Smullen
Find a video lesson on this sub-topic at Dan Rott videos.
How DNA is packaged (1m 43s):
Here are some fantastic animated tutorials from McGraw Hill Education – DNA Replication (in prokaryotes) and DNA Replication fork.
HL Replication in a 5m video: Protein Synthesis.
Paul Andersen describes the molecular structure of DNA in What is DNA?. And here, he explains DNA Replication:
Here’s a TED-Ed lesson on what happens when your DNA is damaged.
7.2 Transcription & Gene Expression
7.2 transcription & gene expression from Bob Smullen
Find a video lesson on this sub-topic at Dan Rott videos.
Fantastic animated tutorials from McGraw Hill Education – transcription and translation and Exons & Introns.
Control of Gene Expression
Regulated Transcription in under 4 minutes from ndsuvirtualcell.
Gene Regulation – a 10m video from Mr Andersen. He also explains Transcription & Translation in a 12m tutorial.
Epigenetics: epigenome: the symphony in your cells, a 5m video and here is Epigenetics from Learn.Genetics.
7.3 Translation
7.3 translation from Bob Smullen
Find a video lesson on this sub-topic at Dan Rott videos.
Click on ‘tRNA’ to work through an Interactive Tutorial from Wiley.
Fantastic animated tutorials from McGraw Hill Education – how Translation works, Translation Initiation, Translation Elongation & Translation Termination.
Paul Andersen explains Transcription & Translation in a 12m tutorial. Venki Ramakrishnan was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for ‘studies of the structure and function of the ribosome’ (a 7m video).
An animated, narrated tutorial on Polyribosomes (from Sinauer Associates).
On the left, Translation; on the right, Protein Synthesis (Transcription & Translation) – click to enlarge.
