Get into your lab for an serious investigation of genetics (the branch of biology focused on heredity and variation in organisms) and DNA (the acid that holds the blueprints for life). Check out genetic material with your very own eyes when you carefully isolate the DNA from a tomato in a test tube. Investigate inheritance and discover how traits are passed down from generation to generation. Learn about dominant and recessive genes and how different biological traits will be expressed in future offspring.

Learn about the biology of reproduction, the components of cells, and how chromosomes are combined and copied. Build a model of the elegant double-stranded helical structure of DNA. Then you crack the genetic code and find out how the different parts, called nucleotides, fit together to compose it! Read about scientists and how thy use DNA sequencing to reveal the order of nucleotides in DNA.

With this kit you can analyze DNA evidence to identify suspects and solve a crime. Learn about important scientists, including Mendel, Watson, and Crick, who made breakthrough contributions to the genetic engineering field.

Grow a bacteria colony and experiment with genetic engineering. Read about how mutation affects genes and how scientists clone plants and animals. The full-color, 48-page manual guides your experiments.

Activities you can do with this kit: