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About Your Diet and Your DNA Virtual Lab Simulation
Everything you eat will impact your DNA. In this simulation, you will learn about the connection between nutrients in your diet and the stability of your DNA.
Food composition and digestion
Join two young school girls and discover how their contrasting food choices impact them. You will review their food choices by looking at the nutrients’ 3D structures and compositions. Next, you will dive deeper into the human digestive system. Through detailed 3D animations, you’ll get the opportunity to travel through the gut with the bacteria and see how nutrients are absorbed in the human body.
DNA experiments
You will perform two experiments to uncover how nutrients impact the DNA structure. In these experiments, you will compare samples taken from people with healthy and unhealthy diets. In the first experiment, you will measure the DNA telomere length. In the second experiment, you will measure the DNA adduct level from colon samples.
Plan a healthy meal
Finally, you will use your acquired knowledge to plan a healthy meal for Mia, who is a school athlete. You can choose from a range of different food options to build your meal plan. Will you be able to help Mia get her energy back?
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Follow Lily’s quest for planning a healthy diet for her best friend, Mia, who is lacking energy for her athletic performances, and learn how an unhealthy diet can impact DNA stability by measuring telomere length and DNA adducts from human samples.
Techniques in Lab
- Flow cytometry
- Micropipetting
- Histology slide preparation
- Microscopy
- Diet planning
Learning Objectives
At the end of this simulation, you will be able to…
- Describe nutrient compositions of healthy and unhealthy diets
- Explain how genomic instability may lead to the development of diseases such as cancer
- Summarize the impact of diet on genomic stability
Simulation Features
Length – 35 minutes
Languages – English
Examples of Related Standards
University
Life Sciences related 1st year onwards
NGSS
No direct alignment
IB
7.2 Transcription and gene expression
AP
No direct alignment
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