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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Genetic Drift and the Founder Effect

For Students 9th - 10th
This image of polydactyly illustrates one symptom of Ellis-van Creveld syndrome, which is commonly found in the Amish. Ellis-van Creveld is one example of the founder effect and genetic drift.
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University of Arizona

University of Arizona: Genetic Drift Simulation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Arizona runs a two-step simulation of Genetic Drift. There are teacher's notes included. A great site to aid in understanding Genetic Drift.
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University of Arizona

The Biology Project: Genetic Drift: An Explanation

For Students 9th - 10th
This explanation of genetic drift is straightforward and easy to understand. Illustrations are provided to help visual learners
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Palomar Community College District

Palomar College: Genetic Drift and Founder Effect

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Palomar College discusses the concepts of genetic drift and founder effect. Provides some specific examples of the founder effect and a discussion of these.
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Talk Origins Archive

Talk Origins Archive: Random Genetic Drift

For Students 9th - 10th
Laurence Moran discusses one of the most important mechanisms of evolution, Random Genetic Drift.
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Genetic Drift vs. Gene Flow vs. Natural Selection

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what genetic drift, gene flow, and natural selection are, and compares their differences, two at a time.
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Other

University of Connecticut: Genetic Drift

For Students 9th - 10th
A Java simulation of genetic drift where users can select a starting allele frequency, population size, and a maximum number of generations. Simulation gives a graph that shows allele frequency versus generation number.
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New York University

Population Size and Genetic Drift: Lecture Notes

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a college level lecture on genetic drift, complete with mathmatic formulae, includes special links.
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Nature Research

Scitable: Population and Quantitative Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you know the difference between population genetics and quantitative genetics? This webpage examines both population genetics which concentrates on frequencies of alleles and genotypes and quantitative genetics which deals with the...
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California State University

Csu Chico: Population Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a group of Mendelian Genetics exercises that are designed to show the evolution of a trait within a population. The site covers instruction in calculating genotypic and allelic frequencies, determining dominance, the...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Genetic Drift

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how evolution happens due to chance events. Explore the bottleneck effect and founder effect.
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Other

Biology Simulations: Population Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
Population genetics is the study of genetic variation in populations. This simulation allows the user to observe the frequencies of two alleles over time.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Flu Shift and Drift

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover how Type B Influenza virus has genetic drift, whereas Type A Influenza virus has genetic drift and shift.
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Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Natural Selection

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientific article explaining what natural selection is, and how it manifests itself through genetics and from generation to generation. Natural selection is compared to genetic drift, both of which cause evolution to occur. The limits...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Mechanisms of Evolution Beyond Natural Selection

For Students 9th - 10th
Gene pools can change as a result of genetic drift and other mechanisms. This tutorial will investigate how gene pools change and evolve.
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Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures introducing beginning biology students to the principles of evolution, ecology, and behavior. The course was taught three times a week for a semester at Yale University. The course discusses concepts of...
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BioMan Biology

Bio Man Biology: Angry Aliens: Evolution

For Students 4th - 6th
Teach aliens about evolution as you play this game, and review your own understanding in the process. Topics covered include evolutionary mechanisms, evidence of evolution, natural selection, reproductive isolation, population genetics,...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Forces of Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will explore the factors that lead to evolution such as genetic mutation, gene drift and gene flow.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Forces of Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes three of the four forces of evolution: mutation, gene flow, and genetic drift.
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Biology Pages

Kimball's Biology Pages: Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses conditions needed for the Hardy-Weinberg Law to hold true and demonstrates calculations involving allelic frequencies to illustrate this principle.
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Other

Evolution: The Theory of Natural Selection (Part 1)

For Students 9th - 10th
These pages are part of a site called Evolution that accompany a textbook by the same name. Mark Ridley is the author. This section has an advanced discussion of determining allele and genotype frequencies using the Hardy-Weinberg ratio.
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BioMan Biology

Bio Man Biology: Evolution and Classification Quizzes

For Students 9th - 10th
A multiple-choice quiz on the mechanisms of evolution.
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Other

Viral Zone: Viral Genome Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Viral genomes are the fastest evolving entities in biology, mainly because of their short replication time and the large quantity of offspring released per cell infected. Evolution occurs by several mechanisms: Random mutation,...
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Palomar Community College District

Palomar College: Practice Quiz for Gene Flow

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Palomar College contains an interactive practice quiz containing four questions on major concepts regarding gene flow. A great learning tool.

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