Resources by Wellcome Trust
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Fat chemistry
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Summary of the carbon bonds in fatty acids and triglycerides. |
Fat, nutrition and health
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Fat is essential for a balanced diet – how do we process it, and what is the link with obesity? |
Feeding a growing world
Students examine the sugar content of potatoes in relation to emerging interest in the carcinogen acrylamide produced when potatoes are cooked at high temperatures. Employing cutting-edge techniques to genetically modify E. coli bacteria, they will insert the jellyfish gfp gene to make the...
Flying fruit
Using a huge wall map of the world, flower pots, compost and videos, children find out everything there is to know about the fruit they eat. They investigate where their fruit has travelled from, and what transport was used getting it to the UK. Children explore the different parts of fruit and compare the seeds of...
Food and Diet
Published by the Wellcome Trust, the 'Big Picture' explores issues around biology and medicine.
This issue of the Big Picture, from the Wellcome Trust, looks at the role that food plays not only in human physiology but also in the individual's lives. Food is about so much more than sustenance. Food choice...
For richer, for poorer
This play explores how we can both under- and over-eat and what this does for our health. Set in India it looks at two groups of people, rich and poor, and how both have poor diets for very...
Foundations of populations
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What is a population and how can we study a population? Find out about key terms and concepts in this article. |
From Strength to Strength (Ages 14-16)
This suite of experiments explores the body's muscles, their function and the effects of exercise.
[b]Experiment A:[/b] Students measure the circumference of their upper arm when relaxed and contracted. They then carry out some strength tests to see if there is a relationship between muscle size and...
Mind-boggling progress has been made in our ability to sequence a genome accurately and quickly, and in our ability to process and understand the huge amount of data that sequencing produces. What do these developments mean for each of us – our health, our identity, and the world we live in – now and in the future...
Genes and You
Published by the Wellcome Trust in 1997, this book provides challenging ways of incorporating scientific information into social situations. Teachers' notes complement the student activity sheets in a series of real-life scenarios.
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