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Biology: Genetics and Heredity

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore the connection between genetics and heredity by examining the cellular structure. Among the numerous activities to engage students are drawing DNA molecules, vocabulary puzzle sheets, and predicting possible...
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Weird Genetics Problems

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this genetics worksheet, students will solve genetic problems using the genetic cross or a Punnett square. This worksheet has 6 short answer questions.
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Crossword Puzzle for Basic Principles of Genetics

For Students 9th - 12th
In this genetics worksheet, learners complete a crossword puzzle by determining the terms associated with the 24 clues given. Students review terms such as phenotype, genotype, alleles, and Mendel.
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Zork Genetics

For Students 9th - 12th
In this genetics worksheet, students use an imaginary species and a list of genetic traits and the alleles that code for each trait to determine the genotype and phenotype probabilities of offspring. Students complete nine monohybrid...
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Peanut Butter Broccoli - Creating New Produce Through Genetic Selection

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders understand that traits are inherited and change over time. In this physical traits instructional activity, 5th graders compare produce items for similar traits. Students create large graphs to show their results. Students...
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Paint's Family Tree

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students sort and classify the genetic traits of horses. In this heredity and genetics lesson, students read dialogue in a skit in which specific physical traits of several horses are described and a horse family tree is created....
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Design Yer Genes

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders 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...
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Chromosomes and Genetic Mapping

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to mapping by crossover frequency. Genes travel as packaged trains on chromosomes. They use this experiment, genetic mapping assignment, that allow students to quickly complete the assignment and yet examine the...
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Genetics

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this worksheet, students will answer 4 fill in the blank statements about Mendelian inheritance and meiosis. Then students will use Punnett squares to answer three short answer questions. Students will match 8 genetics vocabulary...
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Mutation and Genetic Change

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this genetic change worksheet, learners read about how mutations can occur in germ cells and somatic cells. Students complete 1 multiple choice and 4 short answer questions.
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Snappy Products

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore genetics and biotechnology. Working in a group as a "biotech company", they genetically modify a plant and then promote their product at a biotechnology funding fair.
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Bird Land

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students role-playing the concept of evolution through naturally occurring mutations. Working in pairs, they model how birds have adapted to the food sources in their environment through changes in their beak size and shapes. Students...
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Controlling the Code: Molecules at Word

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars investigate how cells determine which genes will be expressed and which will be silent. In this genetics lesson, students use on-line resources to complete a worksheet and gather information about gene regulation. Lesson...
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Genetics Challenge

For Students 9th - 12th
In this genetics worksheet, learners fill in the blanks with terms related to genes, alleles, genotypes, phenotypes and heredity. They use their answers to complete a joke.
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A Microscopically Enormous Look at Genetic Inheritance

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use microscopes to examine fly families and analyze their genetic inheritance. In this genes lesson plan, students also use the chi square for comparing genes and compare the class results as a whole.
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How Evolution Works

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners work in groups to investigate and present genetic variation, adaptation, and sexual selection as it relates to evolution. In this evolution lesson, students watch a video discuss how the human eye could evolve due to natural...
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DNA Fingerprinting for High School Biology

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students work with tools and techniques used in genetic engineering. They dissect a sample into fragments of DNA using restriction enzymes, sometimes called "molecular scissors". They sort these fragments, measure and analyze them according
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Where Did That Curly Hair Come From?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students pronounce (as best as they can) the scientific term used in explaining heredity. They study the meaning and/or significance of these genetic terms and use these words in sentences relating to the information taught in the unit.
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Genetic Technology

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this genetic worksheet, students will match 6 terms associated with gene engineering to their correct definition. Then students will complete a table indicating if the vector is mechanical or biological. Finally, students will...
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Genetics with a Smile

For Students 8th - 10th
In this genetics worksheet, students are given two coins that they mark with a "F" and a "M" to represent parents. They flip the coins to determine the genotype and phenotype of the offspring for twelve traits. They also use the coin to...
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Genetics Problems Worksheet

For Students 9th - 12th
In this genetics problems worksheet, students solve 20 problems by completing crosses using Punnett squares in order to predict the probability of genotypes and phenotypes of offspring.
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More Zork Genetics

For Students 9th - 12th
In this genetics worksheet, students complete 3 dihybrid crosses of traits to determine the probability of the genotypes and phenotypes of the offspring of the imaginary species, the Zork.
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GED: Vocabulary: Life Science

For Students 9th - 12th
In this GED vocabulary learning exercise, students complete a crossword puzzle given 10 clues about genetics and cloning, food chains, vaccines, the brain and the nervous system and organisms. Students are given a word bank to use to...
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Living Environment

For Teachers 8th - 12th
In this environment worksheet students complete a series of multiple choice and short answer questions on genetics, populations and cell structure. 

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