Oil and water You can easily see for yourself how the amino acids, trying to get as far away from the water as possible, formed into little spheres or bubbles. [...]
Taken with an electron microscope at the University of Melbourne, Australia Here's an active game where you can act out what a Golgi body does. Form into groups of eight, [...]
Human cheek cells (seen through a microscope at 400X) The best way to understand cells better is to look at some through a microscope. If you don't have a microscope [...]
A loaf of bread You can easily taste how your enzymes work breaking down your food into smaller pieces. Do this experiment right after lunch, when you'll have a lot of [...]
Building a model of DNA: a DNA project DNA active learning project To see how DNA unzips and zips up again, get a bunch of kids together, and two pieces [...]
Fall leaves from a maple tree: their chloroplasts are dying off Why do leaves turn color? You can see that leaves are only green because of the chloroplasts, because in [...]
An onion cell (seen through a microscope) You can see individual cells for yourself if you can get access to a regular light microscope, perhaps at your school, or at [...]
A strand of DNA (seen through an electron microscope) Let's start with RNA If the RNA theory of the origin of life is right, then after a short time, about [...]
What is cytoplasm? A very simple cell (seen through a microscope) What is cytoplasm? Inside all cells, from the most simple to the most complicated, there is cytoplasm. Cytoplasm is [...]
Chloroplasts (seen through a microscope) - how did chloroplasts evolve? When did chloroplasts evolve? The first cells that could make sugars out of sunlight and carbon dioxide and water by [...]
