Inventory of Traits SURVEY

Traits Slide Show

SURVEY

Introduction Genetics

Kendrick Lamar
DNA (cleaned version)

What is in our DNA?
What is shaped by environment? What is not? Does our DNA code for who we are? How does it not?




Human genetic diversity is complex- most traits show a wide range across the human population with multiple genes controlling a particular trait.  What can genetics and DNA help us understand  about our interconnectedness and turbulent history as a human species?
How has genetics been used by those in power to justify and maintain social injustices?
How can it be used to help us expose and take apart racist, sexist, homophobic and ableist social structures?

Proteins!

Protein folding video

Some proteins in the human body

Cancer, Alzheimer's and Protein Origami: David Pincus, TEDxBeaconStreet 
a TED Talk tying it all together: Cancer, cell cycle, protein folding...