I am home tutoring again after a long break when I was developing textbooks and other educational materials. When I returned to Wyzant,
I found all these new features and doodads, including this blog function, so I figured why not tell a story about a previous
rewarding tutoring experience?
DNA is a long, thin molecule, a polymer, made up of monomers joined together. My student understood that perfectly well.
She also understood restriction endonucleases. These are enzymes that cut DNA only at certain recognition sequences. What she didn’t
understand is that DNA molecules are objects...