Gel Electrophoresis and Proteins

Materials

Gel apparatus

Gel Electrophoresis

Blood Types

Bracelets

Beads

Computer Program

Procedure

1.) Begin lab by dropping blood samples into the wells of the gel apparatus.

2.) Take the gel apparatus and put it into the gel electrophoresis.

3.) Come back to the class and get a computer generated DNA strand.

4.) Find the corresponding mRNA, tRNA, and amino acid.

5.) Once finding the amino acid, build a protein chain by attaching beads to the strand supplied earlier in the lab.

6.) Take apart the protein chain and put the beads back into their containers.

7.) Take out the gel apparatus after 40 minutes and observe how the different strands of blood have traveled through the apparatus.