... proteins of various colors. painting bacteria E. coli protein gene expression DNA It is all too common for students to think of art and science as being entirely separate and unrelated. Incorporating arts into the discussion of gene expression and microbiology introduces students...

...Jeanne Ting Chowning; Dina Kovarik; Joan Griswold Students will have made a protein called “pencil transferase” – an enzyme whose “job” it is to transfer a pencil. The various solutions to the problem of how to transfer a pencil will reveal some functional constants. For example, students...