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CRISPR - As an Adaptive Immune System in Bacteria
Tim Herman, PhD, Director, Center for BioMolecular Modeling
Explore CRISPR as an adaptive immunity system in bacteria using the new Adaptive Immunity Kit©. A classic 2012 paper proves how this system works and will give your students practice in interpreting scientific data. Model how restriction enzymes connect to a CRISPR endonuclease for editing the human genome.
CRISPR: It’s All About Yogurt
Tim Herman, PhD, Director, Center for BioMolecular Modeling
Discuss the classic paper from 2012 that definitively proved how the adaptive immunity system works, and use this paper with your students to practice interpreting scientific data with a connection to current biological research.
Session Resources
Use the foam nucleotides from the Nucleotide Student Modeling Pack© for the CRISPR restriction enzymes activity Tim models in the video below. Please refer to the handouts below the video:
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