B L U E

______ ______ ______ ______

 P R I N T
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BLUEPRINT
 What information can
you get from the
blueprint of the house?
Building a house usually
requires a blueprint, or a
plan of the structure of the
house to determine how it
will look like after
construction.
People/engineers
involved in the
construction refer to
this blueprint from
time to time.
What do you know about DNA?
DNA is the blueprint for life. It spells out the
instructions to all living things to tell them how to
become what they are, and how our cells should work.
What is DNA?
DNA contains the information needed to form and control
the physical makeup and chemical processes of an
organism
OBJECTIVES:

A. Identify the molecules which make

up DNA;

B. Used models to construct a

molecule of DNA
CONCEPT 25%

COOPERATION 15%

PRESENTATION 10%

50%
ACTIVITY PROPER:
1. What are the two common parts of a nucleotide?
Sugar and phosphate

2. What is the one part of nucleotide that differs

among the other different nucleotides?
base
3. List the four different kinds of nitrogen bases.
Adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine
 4. What is the pairing arrangement of nitrogen bases?
Adenine pairs with thymine and guanine pairs with cytosine

5. Are there always going to be an equal number of

adenine and thymine nucleotides in a molecule? Why?
Yes. Adenine can only pair with thymine because of
their chemical structures.
6. Are there always going to be an equal number of
guanine and cytosine nucleotides in a molecule? Why?
Yes. Guanine can only pair with cytosine because of
their chemical structures.
7. The sides (or “uprights”
of the ladder are made up
of alternating__________
and _______molecules.
The steps (or “rungs” of
the ladder are made up of
_______ held together by
hydrogen bonds.

Sugar and phosphate;

nitrogen bases
Generalization

1. What is DNA?

DNA- contains the information needed to form and

control the physical makeup and chemical processes
of an organism

2. What composed the nucleotide?

Sugar and phosphate molecules, and nitrogenous base.

The base can be (adenine, thymine, cytosine, guanine
Application: Student Worksheet
“Decoding DNA”
“DNA is the Code of Life. See if you can break this code and
solve the message that is hidden in the strands of DNA”

TASKS:
- Use the key to color your worksheet, then use the
“Decoder Sheets” to solve the puzzle.
- Don’t forget to answer the question at the end of the
riddle!

ANSWER: “I am the riddle of life, know me and you

will know yourself”.
Assessment:
DIRECTIONS: Give the complementary base
pairing of the following DNA strand:

1. AACGTACGATCGATGCACAT
TTGCATGCTAGCTACGTGTA

2. CCCGGGTATGCATGTACGTA

GGGCCCATACGTACATGCAT
ASSIGNMENT:

Read on the process of DNA replication

REFERENCE:

Biology book