Activity 3.3: DNA, Photos, Thumb Drives

Directions

Begin activity by posing the following questions to the group, trying to make sure that all participants contribute to the discussion.

• Name several ways that we store pictures or information so we can share them with our friends, learn from them or jog our memories?

Show participants the covers and some content from several books; let them look through the books. Then pose the following.

• Name some other languages in which these books might be written?

• What symbols were used to write the book and how many symbols of that kind there are?

• Explain what difficulties you might have if the books were written in a language you did not understand?

• Explain the problem a similar situation in a cell might cause.

• Describe how information in books or flash drives are the same as or different from information in a genome (encourage participants to use terms introduced in this lesson).

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