Favorite Demonstration: An Activity to Demonstrate the Genetic Code, Gene Duplication, and Divergence | NSTA

Favorite Demonstration: An Activity to Demonstrate the Genetic Code, Gene Duplication, and Divergence

Journal of College Science Teaching—July/August 2011

This activity provides a way for students to practice using the genetic code and, as a result, to realize the redundancy of the genetic code by practicing "reverse translation" and understand why it's physiologically impossible.

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