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- 6th - 8th
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Students identify different traits and whether the traits are inherited or acquired. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th - 12th
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Students study DeoxyriboNucleic Acid or commonly known as DNA and discover importance of DNA strand, chromosomes, and genes. Full Review »
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- 12th
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Students examine the difference between dominant and recessive traits, and genes and alleles. They identify Mendel's two laws, and conduct an Internet search based on Mendel. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students make comparisons about themselves and others, which are real and meaningful. They study some basic concepts in the area of genetics and do a complimentary series of experiments, or explorations that illustrate these concepts Full Review »
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- 8th - 9th
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Students manipulate Punnett squares to determine the patterns of dominant and recessive gene influence on first and second generations of humans and plants in this technology-based, genetics lesson for the 8th or 9th grade Science classroom. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students explore general structure of and natural changes that occur in DNA strands, and discuss concept of genetic engineering by creating small portion of strawberry chromosome with three genes, modeling naturally occurring mutation, and removing segment of DNA model and replacing it with new segment. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students create species of mussels. They discuss genes, traits and dominance and recessive traits. They observe two species of mussels and record their traits on the Dominate Recessive worksheet. They graph both species' results and compare the two species. They discuss why certain traits are good for each species. Full Review »
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- 8th - 11th
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Students research the population of Bengal tigers and their existence as either dominant or recessive. They explore the presence of fur on these tigers and its lethal combinations. Determinating the effect of random mating in a population of tigers possessing a recessive gene. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students investigate how traits are passed from parents to their offspring. They list things they have in common with family members, read key vocabulary terms, create a poster of shared physical and personality traits, and watch and discuss a video. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students explain the role of sex chromosomes in sex determination and how sex linkage affects the inheritance of traits. They explain the effect of crossing-over on the inheritance of genes in linkage and summarize the procedure involved in constructing a chromosome map. Finally, students distinguish between chromosome mutations and gene mutations. Full Review »
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