SCIENCE
Suitable for all ages
The Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridgeshire is one of the world’s most advanced DNA research facilities but what exactly is DNA and how can it be used to protect our natural environment?
Come on over and explore this amazing molecule with us with fun interactive activities and find out how we are using DNA to understand more than 70,000 species across the UK as part of the Darwin Tree of Life project and learn some fun facts about some of the species we have found so far!
Visitors will have the opportunity to become DNA scientists, investigating this marvellous molecule with our fun activities, learning how we go from collecting samples to understanding what species exist all around us. You will become a DNA detective, cracking DNA codes with our sensory DNA activity and learn how we use big machines called DNA sequencers to crack these codes in the lab. You will then have a chance to piece together large DNA codes and align them as part of our DNA jigsaw, using this to work out what creatures we have collected so far. Finally you will have a chance to make and take home your very own pin badge of some of the species we have identified using DNA so far on the Darwin Tree of Life project and learn some fun facts about them in the process!
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