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Activity 2 : Be a Plasmid Engineer

Isaac Newton discovered the laws of motion because of an apple falling from trees, Friedrich August Kekulé discovered the structure of benzene after having dreamt of a snake eating its tail. History has repeatedly showed us that many a ground-breaking discovery originated from leaps of creativity and imagination.

Synthetic Biology is no different. Like a sand box, it houses a staggering amount of possibilities, limited only by people’s imagination, and by what people perceive as possible. In this activity, secondary students have a chance to show everyone what they think Synthetic Biology can do after getting some basic idea of synthetic biology through all the activities! We inspire them to think out of the box, and design their own Synthetic Biology project! We ask secondary students to construct a plasmid that carries characteristics from one or more species, and specify which host species they wish to introduce the plasmid into. Below are some interesting examples designed by these students.