OneAndOneIs2

Sat, Nov 03, 2007

Chromosome structure in one hour

There was a time when I'd have thought you'd struggle to spend more than five minutes on the topic. You've got your chromosome, right, which is made out of one really long piece of DNA, all folded up small.

That was before I spent my final year at university creating a tutorial on the structure of the nucleus, and realized just how highly-organized and complex it really was. (That tutorial is, incidentally, online here)

So on the plus side, I've got instant access to lots of information on the subject. On the down side, I'm not nearly convinced that I can get through it all in the space of an hour...

6 comments • Categories: Omni, My Life

Comments:

Comment from: Ginny [Visitor]

· http://iamgenevieve.wordpress.com

Outline the basics, then give them the website for homework. That is what a *lot* of teachers do.

Permalink 03/11/07 @ 20:59

Comment from: oneandoneis2 [Member] · http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/

The tricky bit there is, I don't want the kids I teach to find my website, if I can possibly avoid it..

Permalink 03/11/07 @ 22:12

Comment from: Ginny [Visitor]

· http://iamgenevieve.wordpress.com

Good point. I'll be shutting up now...

Permalink 03/11/07 @ 22:14

Comment from: alison [Member] · http://www.creativehedghog.com

summarise. Find the stuff you ABSOLUTELY must know, and chuck in some "oh wow" really cool bits too. :)

* do not skip the must know for the cool bits/short cuts though- grrr...

Permalink 04/11/07 @ 05:35

Comment from: alison [Member] · http://www.creativehedghog.com

PS- that tutorial web design is very '90s... :D

Permalink 04/11/07 @ 05:41

Comment from: oneandoneis2 [Member] · http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/

What do you expect, I wrote it in the '90s with nothing more than a text editor and Netscape 2 to help me! :P

Permalink 04/11/07 @ 12:35