DNA & Epigenetics
Lessons
DNA Wrap: Packaging matters
Lesson Plan | Teacher PowerPoint
DNA Methylation & Cadmium Exposure in utero
An epigenetic analysis activity for students
Lesson Plan | Teacher PowerPoint
Investigating the Exposome: Vinyl Chloride Exposure, DNA Damage & Repair
A data interpretation activity for students
Lesson Plan | Teacher PowerPoint | Article in the American Biology Teacher (October 2018)
Investigating Prenatal Arsenic Exposure and Altered Gene Expression
A data interpretation activity for students
Worksheet | Teacher PowerPoint
Obesity-associated breast cancer risk: a role for epigenetics?
An examination of evidence
Lesson Plan | Teacher PowerPoint
Lesson Extension: Candy Model Instructions |Teacher PowerPoint
The Dynamic Duo | Transcription & DNA Damage
Coming soon!
For more information contact Dana Haine at 919-843-5735 or dhaine@unc.edu.
Teaching Resources
Background Reading
Epigenetics | Genetic Science Learning Center, University of Utah
Epigenetics: Looking beyond our DNA | Horizons in Bioscience – Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
Epigenetics: The Science of Change | Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) – 2006
Uncertain Inheritance:Transgenerational effects of environmental exposures | EHP – 2013
Epigenetic Influences and Disease | Scitable by Nature Education.
The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance | A book by Nessa Carey
How Epigenetics Works | How Stuff Works
Multimedia
NOVA: Ghost in your Genes
56 minute video (DVD) and companion website
NOVA: A Tale of Two MICE
Audio slide show describing the Agouti mice research featured in Ghost in your Genes
Epigenetics, NOVA Science Now with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Part I | Part II
Related Lessons and Activities
Epigenetics: Supplemental materials | Genetic Science Learning Center, University of Utah
Identical Twins, Identical Fates? An Introduction to Epigenetics | Case Study from the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science at the University at Buffalo – 2012
Epigenetics Game | Oregon Health & Science University