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Jars of all sorts of horrible house pests: bugs, flies, worms and more! |
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Jars of all sorts of horrible house pests: bugs, flies, worms and more! |
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A challenge to get people thinking about animal intelligence |
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Intelligence tests for animals. |
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Looking at different animal skulls to compare them and see how they differ. |
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Why do some animals have really long beaks? Why do others have really big TEETH? With our collection of animal skulls, you can find out how different animals evolved to suit their habitats - and how you are a lot more similar to them than you might think! |
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Explore the world of epigenetics, using pipecleaners and corks to model DNA and the chemical changes done to it to turn genes on and off. |
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Humans have 19,000 genes. How are only certain genes turned on in each cell so that brain cells express brain genes, but not heart genes and vice versa? Here we make fun chromatin models to explore epigenetics. |
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Looking at a variety of small creatures that you can find in your garden |
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Insects, worms, bugs and more: what lives in your garden? Get up close and personal and see for yourself! |
Please note: This experiment is not used on the summer roadshow |
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This experiment aims to introduce kids to a wonderful model organism, the Drosophila fruit fly. |
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You'll have seen some of these fruit flies before: these cool and beautiful little creatures have shown us how genes can be inherited (by following patterns of features like eye colours), and how genes work. |
Please note: This experiment is not used on the summer roadshow |
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Show kids how disease dynamics, with a model of Citrus Canker spreading through a population of orange trees |
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Exploring the concept of disease spread and biological modelling. |
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Breaking open cells of a kiwi fruit and making the DNA inside visible to the human eye |
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In this experiment we get DNA out of living cells in kiwi fruit. The DNA can be made fully visible to the human eye - no microscopes or magnifying glass needed! Done in less than 5 minutes in front of your eyes. |
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Perpex blocks with specimens of frogs and bees from different lifecycle stages |
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Ever wondered what happened to a creature between it being an egg and an adult? Look at our life cycles collection for Bees and Frogs and see for yourself! |
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Examining a variety of objects under a microscope, including a variety of slides |
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All sorts of things can be viewed down a microscope! This might include the biology lesson classic of an onion skin, the shapes of salt and sugar crystals, the eye of the insect you found in your tent, a drop of puddle water... |
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Box of model cells |
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You'll often see these model cells helping to explain other biology experiments, but one day they may get their own solo careers... |
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X-rays are an extremely useful type of image that are used by vets almost every day. When might a vet need to take an X-ray? How do X-ray machines work? What can you see on an X-ray image? And what do X-rays of different animals look like? |
Please note: This experiment is not used on the summer roadshow |
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Showing one of the transport systems in plants. |
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Combine food colouring with water transport in stem and flowers- you can then see where all the water goes! |
Please note: This experiment is not used on the summer roadshow |
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The idea is to look at how yeast grows and how it relates to bread making. It involves getting the kids to make bread dough. |
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Like all the best biology experiments, this is hands-on and messy! See what happens when you add living yeast to a bread mix, and don't forget to come back a bit later to see what's happened to your dough! |
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