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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Genes, Health, and Society

For Students 9th - 10th
A web-based course which allows students to explore the fields of genetics and genomics. The three course modules are transmission genetics, the nature of genetic material, and medical genetics and genomics. Use of this resource requires...
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University of Utah

University of Utah: Learning Center: learn.genetics: Epigenetics: Gene Control

For Students 9th - 10th
Turn the control knob in this interactive to change the level of gene expression in a cell. Find out how gene, mRNA, and protein production are linked.
eBook
National Institutes of Health

National Center for Biotechnology Information: Pedigree Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook discusses the topic of human pedigree analysis, a type of genetic science used to determine inherited characteristics.
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The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Abpi: Genes and Inheritance

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete, student-paced lesson on genetics and inheritance. Students work their way through illustrations and animated tutorials, and answer review questions along the way. There is a self-checking quiz at the end of the lesson.
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Education Development Center

Education Development Center: Mendel's Peas

For Students 9th - 10th
There are many ways to learn about Gregor Mendel and his pea experiments. This interactive tutorial requires users to actually plant, grow, and cross different plants to observe their traits. Pedigrees are also used to help show dominant...
Handout
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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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What's Dominant?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In a class discussion format, the teacher presents background information about basic human genetics. The number of chromosomes in both body cells and egg and sperm cells is covered, as well as the concept of dominant and recessive...
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Geniversity for Geniverse

For Students 9th - 10th
Geniversity has been designed to help teachers use Geniverse, free web-based software for high school biology that engages young scholars in exploring genetics by breeding and studying virtual dragons.
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CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Complex Modes of Inheritance

For Students 9th - 10th
A tutorial reviews polygenic and multiple alleles, Punnett Square, sex-linked trait, and inheritance patterns. Follow the slides to ensure comprehension of inheritance.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Patterns of Inheritance

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about patterns of inheritance including genotype and phenotype, and then learn about the inheritance of autosomal dominant and recessive and sex-linked genetic disorders.
Activity
City University of New York

Brooklyn College: Medelian Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
This set of seven activities will proved a thorough review of Mendel's work. The interactive experiments are easy to follow and drive home the concepts.
PPT
Northern Illinois University

Northern Illinois University: Biology: Presentation: Pedigree Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
(Requires Microsoft PowerPoint or OpenOffice Impress.) This presentation discusses the goals of pedigree analyis and uses example of how the process is performed.
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Oklahoma State University

Oklahoma State University: Ag in the Classroom: Hairy Heredity [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
A simulation where students flip coins to mimic how parents pass genetic traits to their offspring through heredity. This activity also illustrates the difference between dominant and recessive genes, and how they interact with each...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Polygenic Inheritance and Environmental Effects

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about traits that are controlled by multiple genes and/or influenced by the environment. Understand penetrance and expressivity.
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 3.2 Mendel's Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand the basics behind Mendelian genetics.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Traits: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain how traits are passed down by alleles, and that one particular genotype determines one particular phenotype. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Traits."
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Traits: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain how traits are passed down by alleles, and that one particular genotype determines one particular phenotype. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Traits."
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dna From the Beginning: Sex Linked Hemophilia in the Royal Romanov Family

For Students 9th - 10th
An animated pedigree clearly explains the way hemophilia was inherited in the Romanov family. Interpreting pedigrees and sex-linked crosses should be much easier to understand after going through this tutorial.
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Hhmi: Biointeractive: Skin Color Interactive Video

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the evidence scientists have found to support the idea of evolving skin color. Pigments in the skin may be linked to where our ancestors lived.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Mendelian Inheritance Study Guide

For Students 4th - 9th
Review the processes of basic Mendelian genetics.
Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: What Makes You You?

For Students 9th - 10th
Launch an activity that will help you address the nature-versus-nurture debate in terms of your own traits.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Can You Curl Your Tongue?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson is adapted from a Connected Mathematics Unit, How Likely is It? This investigation introduces biology as a source of applications for probability. In this lesson, Curling your Tongue, students determine how many students in...
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Biology Corner

Biology Corner: Pipe Cleaner Babies

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using chromosome and gene models, students play the roles of two parents in this genetics simulation. The object is to create four offspring and determine their genotypes and phenotypes, and determine the probability of having offspring...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Genetic Linkage

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses linked genes and why some characteristics are inherited together.

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