Cloning and biotechnology NEW A-Level biology spec: Natural & artificial cloning, Biotech, Culturing

This is an entire lesson series for the Chapter: Cloning and Biotechnology for the NEW OCR A-level specification which has vast overlap with the AQA spec. There are a total of 124 PowerPoint presentation slides partitioned into individual lessons with identifiable lesson objectives. The scheme of work has been developed to engage your students through an array of different learning activities and will form the basis for the entire lesson series. It comes complete with answers to activities and practice exam questions so you don’t need to spend the time hunting for answers.

It includes accurate and high quality information slides interspersed with pupil activities for the following sub-topics within the Chapter Cloning and Biotechnology:

1. Natural clones: vegetative propagation
2. Clones in plants: tissue culture, micropropagation, artificial cloning
3. Artificial clones in animals: reproductive cloning, embryo splitting, somatic cell nuclear transfer, non-reproductive cloning
4. Biotechnology: today and yesterday, advantages of using microorganisms
5. Using biotechnology to make food: yoghurt, cheese, baking, alcohol, single-cell protein
6. Other processes involving biotechnology, antibiotic and insulin production, bioremediation, asepsis
7. Microorganism cultures: aseptic technique, practical (in pictures) using dye to streak agar
8. Population growth: serial dilution practical, growth curve data to plot, phases of growth
9. Immobilised enzymes: Advantages of use, methods for immobilisation, Industrial uses of immobilised enzymes, practical using alginate beads