Recently Gene Editing has been in the news. With the development of this technology, it is now possible to edit the DNA of humans and other organisms.
Lesson Plans and lab work is now available on my teacher pay teacher site, https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/3D-Printable-DNA-RNA-Manipulative-Lab-1-3452084
Gene editing is also known as genetic modification, gene splicing, genome editing, or gene therapy.
All of them use restriction enzymes / nucleases "Molecular scissors" to cut and splice different genes into the host DNA.
In looking online, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome_editing, there are thousand of different nucleases that work in different way to edit DNA.
To model nucleases, I designed this expansion set for my DNA / RNA manipulative set. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1259352
Using these DNA blocks, you can easily move and manipulate your choice of nucleates.
In the file I include 1 bp and 6 bp block so you can explore the most common restriction enzymes.
I did simplify this by removing the phosphate group (P) block from this. I did this in order to save space on your students desktop.
| DNA_3_5_prime.stl | 27.4KB | |
| DNA_6Block_6_D_Restriction.stl | 129.4KB |
