See DNA
Credit: Science Museum of Minnesota

See DNA

This is a hands-on activity in which visitors learn about the fundamental component of biology and synthetic engineering: DNA. Visitors will extract visible DNA from wheat germ and create necklaces to display their own sample of wheat germ DNA.

Objectives

Learning Goals

  • Synthetic biology develops tools and knowledge to build new living organisms and materials.
  • The ability to modify and build using DNA is essential to synthetic biology.
  • Synthetic biology benefits from many different voices.

Last updated: May 20, 2016