Webpages for the “Implications of
Biotechnology” ADP
presentation
DNA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA
Adenine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenine Thymine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thymine
Guanine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanine
Cytosine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytosine
Animated structure of the DNA
double helix. A very nice illustration – try the “click to continue”
button on
lower left-hand side http://www.johnkyrk.com/DNAanatomy.html
DNA
from the beginning http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/
http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/dnaftbref.html
has a very brief list of 41 concepts
Illustration of structure of the
chromosome http://www.johnkyrk.com/chromosomestructure.html
Information about each of the 22
chromosomes, and the X and Y chromosome.
Each chromosome has a different strand of DNA
http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/ghr/chromosomes
Genetically Modified Organisms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenic
“Understanding genetics.” The Tech
Museum of Innovation. The
link
titled “Zooming into DNA” has a picture of a
strand of DNA http://www.thetech.org/genetics/
“Human genome project
information” http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/home.shtml
"Genome programs of the
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science" http://www.doegenomes.org/
Articles related to
biotechnology in The New York Times
"Amgen to
build plant in Ireland" http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Ireland-Amgen.html
”Drugs in ’05: Much promise, little payoff; just 20
new products are approved, despite
biotechnology’s hope”
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70D14FA3D5B0C728DDDA80894DE404482