DNA bracelets and Van Gogh

DNA bracelets. (Click on "Wear a Chimp on Your Wrist")

I love incorporating crafts into Science. 

You'll need:

Pony Beads (your choice of colors).

Dental Floss.

A bit of patience.  

Assign colors to your bases.

We used:

(G)uanine- purple

(T)hymine- pink

(C)ytosine- yellow

(A)denine- green

Bases always match up like this:

A - T.

T - A.

G - C.

C - G.

Once you decide which DNA (M made a bracelet with the code from a Monarch Butterfly and K made one with the code from a Sunflower.) you will use you can start stringing beads!

(ex. If your particular DNA starts with an A you will put a green bead on your first strand and a pink bead (for the T) on your other strand.  Then continue until your strands are long enough to fit around your wrist.)

*The DNA codes are listed on the link above.  Be sure to click on "Wear a Chimp Around your Wrist."*

Tie the strands together and you're done!

Art.

Inspired by Van Gogh's Sunflowers.

Love.

(We use The World's Greatest Artists Unit Studies from Confessions of a Homeschooler.)

:)