Because of the simpleness, Eric's model can not demonstrate the difference between G-C and A-T pairs. This is a major complain that my wife had who is also a biologist. That triggered me to build a more complicated DNA model. While preserve the beauty of Eric's model, I wanted more information to be added. After tried and errors to about 2:00am. I thought one solution. Here it is. The middle one is what I built. The right one is Eric's model. My one is bigger. It has more room between double helix. So I can put three or two hydrogen bonds in.
My mother also got involve. I found one site talk about knitting. She followed the instruction and knitted one.
Some models created by Affymetrix Chips
Some pictures of a model made by Illumina Genechips and Lego
4 comments:
Hello! I'm a future biology teacher and was admiring your larger model of DNA. May I ask, what did you use for your hydrogen bonds? I'm having difficulty figuring out how to link the two sides together. Thanks!
Hello I'm a biology teacher at a high school and I too liked your bigger model. I wanted to build a DNA model about a foot and a half high with legos so I was wondering where you got your bricks/pieces and how many you needed for that tall of a helix? please email me back at zfsallman@gmail.com asap thank you!
Hello I'm a biology teacher at a high school and I too liked your bigger model. I wanted to build a DNA model about a foot and a half high with legos so I was wondering where you got your bricks/pieces and how many you needed for that tall of a helix? please email me back at zfsallman@gmail.com asap thank you!
Hello I'm a biology teacher at a high school and I too liked your bigger model. I wanted to build a DNA model about a foot and a half high with legos so I was wondering where you got your bricks/pieces and how many you needed for that tall of a helix? please email me back at zfsallman@gmail.com asap thank you!
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