My living environment teacher wants me to create a double helical DNA model!!!! I have 1 week help me ppl I have searched google but all them use candy which i dont want to because it sounds so juvenile i dont have a lot of leisure
2007-03-05 09:36:21 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Buy foam balls at any arts and crafts store, along wit some thin wood sticks, (they are usually there close by), so that you can put them together, then u can buy paint and paint the diff. sizes of balls acording to what they are.... when ur done u can use string to hand it on a clothes hanger, or stick it wit glue onto a wood or cardboard platform.
2007-03-05 09:44:54 · answer #1 · answered by Canellalewy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Use colored pieces of rope or yarn. The DNA double helix is like a 'rope ladder'. Use two long pieces of yarn/rope for the sides of the ladder - this represents the ribose/phosphate backbone of DNA. Then use short pieces of four different colors to create the rungs of the ladder (two pieces of different but 'matching colors' to represent A:T and G:C) - these represent the four bases that create the actual code for your genes.
Best wishes and good luck.
2007-03-05 09:47:12 · answer #2 · answered by Doctor J 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try those magnetics in the toy isle i think i saw them make one in a commercial
2007-03-05 09:45:42 · answer #3 · answered by schererwoman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
take a pic with you (to the craft store) for reference...good luck
http://www.deneba.com/community/artgalle...
2007-03-05 09:40:48 · answer #4 · answered by Diamond in the Rough 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋