Assorted biology-related OER including biomedical science, biology and forensic science. OER in multiple formats including video, animations and downloadable text.

The Case of the Crown Jewels has two parts:A classroom activity that allows students to explore how the unique sequence of bases in DNA can be used to identify individuals.A laboratory activity that allows students to use DNA restriction analysis to determine if one of the two suspects were at a fictitious crime scene.If you do not have electrophoresis lab equipment, you can just do the paper activity in Part 1 and still teach students about the different concepts related to DNA Fingerprinting.  

In this video from Science City, meet a forensic scientist. She describes the steps to recover and analyze fingerprints to help solve crimes. She also discusses common attributes between art and science.

In this video segment from QUEST, learn about a specific area of forensics and how it is applied to areas of immigration.

An activity that looks into the structure of DNA and the different analysis techniques and how they can apply to forensic science.  In addition three different cases are presented that DNA was a major contributer and students analyze the weight DNA carried in the final court decision.

This lesson looks at a blow fly life cycle and then how to use ADH to estimate time of death for a body.  The applies this knowledge to solving forensic science cases.