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Paper Nucleic Acid Models for Hands-on Education

Download templates for a set of paper models that can be cut from paper or cardstock and used for demonstrations of the fundamentals of DNA structure, DNA replication, and RNA translation.

These materials and images are free for use under a CC By 4.0 license. Please cite: Dr. Cassandra K. Hayne and Dr. Phoebe A. Rice, The University of Chicago. Materials available from PDB-101 (PDB101.rcsb.org).

The authors described this project in the Fall 2024 RCSB PDB Newsletter's Education Corner

DNA Strand

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Individual Nucleotides

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Model of Translation

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