2020-2021 EDVOTEK® RESOURCE GUIDE Our Philosophy Teaching should always be fun Contents Learning should always be enjoyable Section 1 Equipment 6 Experiments should foster learning Preparation should always be easy Section 2 Distance Learning 22 Science shouldn’t be expensive Section 3 Discovering Electrophoresis 26 The environment shouldn’t suffer Section 4 Ready-to-Load™ DNA Electrophoresis 34 Lessons should always be relevant Science should never be called boring Section 5 Advanced DNA Applications 42 DNA is nothing to be scared of Section 6 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) 50 Science is a way of life Section 7 Genetic Engineering & Transformation 60 Section 8 Forensics 70 Section 9 Biomedical Science & Immunology 78 Section 10 Environmental Science 96 Section 11 Proteins, Enzymes & Chromatography 106 Section 12 Intro to Biotechnology 116 Section 13 Advanced Placement Biology* 126 Section 14 Neurobiology 134 Reagents, Biologicals, & Supplies 136 Index 137 2 View more products and order online at www.edvotek.com 2020-2021 EDVOTEK® RESOURCE GUIDE Our Philosophy Teaching should always be fun Contents Learning should always be enjoyable Section 1 Equipment 6 Experiments should foster learning Preparation should always be easy Section 2 Distance Learning 22 Science shouldn’t be expensive Section 3 Discovering Electrophoresis 26 The environment shouldn’t suffer Section 4 Ready-to-Load™ DNA Electrophoresis 34 Lessons should always be relevant Science should never be called boring Section 5 Advanced DNA Applications 42 DNA is nothing to be scared of Section 6 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) 50 Science is a way of life Section 7 Genetic Engineering & Transformation 60 Section 8 Forensics 70 Section 9 Biomedical Science & Immunology 78 Section 10 Environmental Science 96 Section 11 Proteins, Enzymes & Chromatography 106 Section 12 Intro to Biotechnology 116 Section 13 Advanced Placement Biology* 126 Section 14 Neurobiology 134 Reagents, Biologicals, & Supplies 136 Index 137 1.800.EDVOTEK • www.edvotek.com • [email protected] 3 2020-2021 EDVOTEK® RESOURCE GUIDE Science Education that Doesn’t Harm the Environment! Science Our Philosophy Education What have we done so far? Teaching should always be fun We’ve gone digital! Our Resource Guide can be downloaded from our website. Contents ThatLearning Doesn’t should always be enjoyable We now send more direct shipments to our customers. This greatly Equipment 4 HarmExperiments the should foster learningimproves our service and helps the environment. Preparation should always be easy Discovering Electrophoresis 20 Environment We use recycled cardboard in our kit box outer packaging. Science shouldn’t be expensive We decreased our plastic kit packaging. Ready-to-Load™ DNA Electrophoresis 28 The environment shouldn’t suffer We recycle all toner cartridges and paper. Advanced DNA Applications 36 Lessons should always be relevant Science should nevSciencer be ecalled Education boringWe went that paperless Doesn’t and now post all our instruction manuals online. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) 44 Harm the Environment! DNA is nothing to be scared of The SDS for every product is now available online: www.edvotek.com/Safety-Data-Sheets Genetic Engineering & Transformation 52 Science is a way of life Employees commute using public transportation to further reduce our What have we done so far? carbon footprint. We also encourage people to walk, jog, and bicycle. Forensics 60 Several of our employees telecommute. We’ve gone digital! Our Resource Guide can be downloaded from our website. Biomedical Science & Immunology 68 We moved into a renovated historic building centrally located in downtown We now send more direct shipments to our customers. WaThisshington, greatly DC. Reusing an existing structure saves a tremendous amount improves our service and helps the environment. of energy! We also installed state-of-the-art high efficiency energy and Environmental Science 82 water systems throughout. We use recycled cardboard in our kit box outer packaging. Proteins, Enzymes & Chromotography 90 We decreased our plastic kit packaging. Introductory Experiments 98 We recycle all toner cartridges and paper. Games & Models 104 We went paperless and now post all our instruction manuals online. The SDS for every product is now available online: Advanced Placement Biology* 108 www.edvotek.com/Safety-Data-Sheets Employees commute using public transportation to further reduce our Section 14 Neurobiology 116 carbon footprint. We also encourage people to walk, jog, and bicycle. Several of our employees telecommute. Reagents, Biologicals, & Supplies 118 We moved into a renovated historic building centrally located in downtown The Biotechnology Washington, DC. Reusing an existing structure saves a tremendous amount ® Index 119 of energy! We also installed state-of-the-art high efficiency energy and Education Company water systems throughout. Proudly serving you for over 30 years! 4 View more products and order online at www.edvotek.com 2020-2021 EDVOTEK® RESOURCE GUIDE Our Philosophy What’s New? Teaching should always be fun Contents Learning should always be enjoyable Equipment 4 Experiments should foster learning Preparation should always be easy Discovering Electrophoresis 20 Science shouldn’t be expensive Cat. #500 Ready-to-Load™Cat. #541-542 DNA ElectrophoresisCat. #540 28 The environment shouldn’t suffer EDGE™ Integrated EdvoCycler™ 2 EdvoCycler™ Jr. Electrophoresis System Redesigned! Doubles the capacity Introducing our new 16-well See page 8! of the original!Advanced See page 7! DNA Applicationspersonal PCR machine!36 See page 6! Lessons should always be relevant Science should never be called boring Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) 44 DNA is nothing to be scared of Genetic Engineering & Transformation 52 Science is a way of life Forensics 60 Biomedical Science & Immunology 68 Cat. #557 Cat. #210 Cat. #310 TruBlu™ 2 Blue/White A-maize-ing Editing: Using Hack the Planet: Using Transilluminator CRISPR to ImproveEnvironmental Crops ScienceCRISPR to Terraform82 Mars See page 14! See page 44! See page 60! Proteins, Enzymes & Chromotography 90 Introductory Experiments 98 Games & Models 104 Advanced Placement Biology* 108 Cat. #263 Cat. #123 Expanding Our Testing: MyLab™ Custom Kit #1219 Nucleic Acid SectionTesting 14 Using ELISA to Detect NeurobiologySimulation of 116COVID-19 for COVID-19 COVID-19 Antibody Test See page 36! SeeReagents page 79! , Biologicals, & SuppliesSee page 23! 118 Index 119 Cat. #342 Cat. #S-45 Learn to Code! 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