Biology by Bradford
Mutations and biotechnology: grass skirts
13 quick questions on AP Biology topics 6.7 Mutations and 6.8 Biotechnology, each answered in a word or two. Print a sheet for each team, a key for the checker and a tick sheet, then tape the sheets to the board and race.
How it runs
- SnipA runner cuts one strip off the bottom of their team’s sheet.
- Answer as a pairBack at the table, they write the answer on the strip. No books.
- Get it checkedThe checker reads it against the key: you, or a student holding it.
- Back for the nextA tick earns the next strip. Wrong? Back to the table to try again.
The questions on this sheet
The checker’s key, with every answer, prints with the sheets.- Agent such as UV that damages DNA
- Sorting DNA pieces by size with current
- Technique copying a DNA region many times
- Bacterial protein cutting a set sequence
- Base change giving the same amino acid
- Base change giving a different amino acid
- Base swap creating an early stop codon
- Base gain or loss altering later codons
- Plasmid passed through a pilus
- Uptake of naked DNA from surroundings
- Single-stranded overhangs left by a cut
- Genes joined from two different organisms
- Gene transfer between bacteria by a virus