Learning Exercises

Students align three DNA sequences and design primers that will amplify all three samples. In addition to alignment... see more

A couple of practice problems in translation. Students can either do these manually or use a linked web-based program to... see more

Practice problems in designing PCR primers and understanding the products of the first three rounds of PCR amplification.... see more

A exercise on designing effective DNA primers. This exercise asks students to design primers that would bind to two... see more

Students are asked to use electronic PCR to identify sequence tagged sites (STS) in some large segments of human genomic... see more

Genome projects generate tremendous amounts of genomic DNA sequence every year. Scientists wish to identify individual... see more