Dna Model Pipe Cleaners
Decide which colors represent which part of the dna molecule.
Dna model pipe cleaners. Let them complete this first strand. Dna is made up of phosphate sugar and one of 4 bases. They can choose any bases in any order. Match up the red and green pieces by wrapping one red end around one green end so that you now have four pieces.
How to make a dna model with pipe cleaners beads step 1. Dna pipe cleaner model. Give one of the dna backbone pipe cleaners to your child and show them how to twist bases onto it at regular intervals. In this activity students use colored pipe cleaners and beads in a hands on activity to emphasize base pairing a t and g c as well as the double helix shape of dna.
Build the second dna strand. Deoxyribonucleic acid dna contains genetic information in humans and many other organisms. The basic 4 nucleotide structure of dna can be represented with various types of models. One easy to build model uses pipe cleaners to represent the adenine cytosine guanine and thymine a c g and t nucleosides and the twisted ladder molecular backbone.
The bases are adenine a thymine t cytosine c and guanine g.