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Thames & Kosmos Biology Genetics and DNA | 
| Brand: Thames & Kosmos
Category: Toy
Department: Biology
List Price: $34.99
Buy New: $19.79
as of 9/8/2010 05:20 CDT details
You Save: $15.20 (43%)
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Seller: i86402
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 11262
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 10 - 99 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 13.1 x 8.9 x 2.6
MPN: 663438
Model: 663438
UPC: 857853001759
EAN: 0857853001759
ASIN: B001ALT6BC
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Isolate the DNA from a tomato | | • | Learn about inheritance and how traits are expressed | | • | Build a DNA model | | • | Breed bacteria to experiment with genetic engineering | | • | Best Seller |
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Product Description
In depth investigation of genetics and DNA. Isolate the DNA from a tomato, learn about inheritance and how traits are expressed, build a DNA model, breed bacteria to experiment with genetic engineering. The full-color, 48-page manual guides your experiments.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Non traditional student September 4, 2010
abeartede
Thames & Kosmos Biology Genetics and DNA
This product came up as a suggested item, when I was purchasing an organic chemistry modeling kit. I am taking genetics also and decided to give it a try. This is not a genetics modeling kit but some crude toy and when the box suggests that it is rated for age 10, believe it. I can't even be sure that they sent what I had originally selected, but I can't find what I thought I ordered, so this is probably it.
Ted
 Educational DNA learning January 30, 2010
Linda (Central IL, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
My grandson requested this item and I found a great deal on Amazon. It wasn't sold locally. Vendor shipped promptly. Although I live at some distance from my grandson and haven't observed the set being used, I hear he likes it.
 There's lots of Styrofoam in the box November 26, 2009
Bruce Bain (Englewood, CO United States)
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
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Here's the deal with the Thames & London Genetics & DNA Kit. You buy the big box. The art work on the outside holds lots of promise. You open the box, and you pull out a huge chunk of STYROFOAM in a Top and Bottom half.
Inside the chunk of STYROFOAM packaging is a tiny little plastic bag about 1/4th the size of a normal SANDWICH BAG. Inside that plastic bag are some itsy-bitsy tiny pieces of plastic with which a little kid is supposed to build the famed DOUBLE-HELIX.
In addition to that, there is a booklet (about the size of a common paperback novel in small print. There are some paper charts and cut-out materials, some plastic test tubes and other paraphernalia for doing the familiar Tomato Experiment.
I mean, that is all very nice, but mostly you are buying the big chunk of STYROFOAM for storage. Frankly, in this day and age, the one thing that should come cheap is BIG PLASTIC PARTS.
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Great book, lousy experiments - expensive October 23, 2009
Hjordes Norman
29 out of 32 found this review helpful
Very disappointing.
It says that it provides everything you need except for common household items, but the first experiment requires denatured alcohol (not isopropyl!) which can run [...] at Home Depot. It also called for a hand blender; who owns a hand blender anymore?
We skipped experiment one, to the disappointment of my daughter.
The next few experiments plummeted from 6 - 8th grade level to about grade level three. Again, very disappointing.
The lego-like structure you build as a double-helix was ridiculously frustrating and had my puzzle-expert daughter in tears.
By the last experiment, which actually is kind of cool, we hadn't even used the product so we skipped it to re-sell the almost-new box to someone who doesn't read product reviews.
However, the small booklet that comes in the kit is wonderful. It has great pictures and clear explanations. If they publish that in normal size print I could actually read without a magnifying glass I would recommend the manual alone for, [...]
 7th grade daughter's Christmas present June 20, 2009
Amazongirl (VA)
28 out of 28 found this review helpful
My daughter received this for Christmas. There is only one experiement she was really excited to do. The others were a bit 'boring' and had already been done in her 7th grade science class. So, I think it had a great price, but the manufactuer should have thought more carefully about what kids want in a set ... cool, fascinating, and fun. You should not have to purchase a larger set to get more exciting experiments.
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