Explanation of how genetic engineering works. Analogy with molecular scissors cutting a "sentence" of DNA. Has nice animations.

Learn genetics and inheritance works on a molecular level.

Learn about some human genetic disorders.

This site explores the role genetics plays in making you look the way that you do. Content includes fun facts and a classroom experiment.

Multi-activity lesson in which learners engage in learning about the inheritance of genetic traits.

Four steps is all it takes to get DNA out of a variety of living things. The requirements include a blender, meat tenderizer, isopropyl alcohol, and a test tube. Sources of DNA include but are not limited to split peas, strawberries,...

An experiment to extract DNA from green split peas, spinach, chicken liver, strawberries, and broccoli using simple household reagents.

Play a game and decide whether the scenario described involves cloning.

Using chromosome and gene models, learners 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...

A biography of Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics.

The official website for Union of Concerned Scientists provides information on environmental issues and suggestions on actions people can take to curb environmental harm.

Identify the differences in genetic and non-genetic classification methods. Why is genetic evidence powerful for understanding evolutionary relationships among organisms? Find out!

Read about how the genetic information in a cell is organized in the nucleus.

Here is the place where you can build your own monster. All living things, including monsters, have an instruction manual for building and making their bodies work. These instructions use a special code, most often known as a genetic...

This site from the University of Arizona describes how blood type is passed on from parent to child. The tutorial covers the genetics of the ABO blood groups as well as Rh factor. There are even practice problems and blood type calculators!

Learn here the different wasy for cystic fibrosis to be managed. Choose a topic and read the article that follows.

Cameron Russell admits she won a genetic lottery: she's tall, pretty and an underwear model. But don't judge her by her looks. In this fearless talk, she takes a wry look at the industry that had her looking highly seductive at barely...

Discover what controls how fast tiny molecular motors in our body pull through a single strand of DNA. How hard can the motor pull in a tug of war with the optical tweezers? Discover what helps it pull harder. Do all molecular motors...

Students extract DNA from wheat germ to learn about how DNA can easily be found in our food.

Learn how biotechnology can alter crops to change many different phenotypes of plants.

CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...

See how the human genome project sequenced all 3 billion bases that make up our DNA and identified within this code more than 20,000 human genes.

This is a technology-based, hands-on Biology lesson on Heredity and Traits. Learners learn about the basics of Heredity through a virtual tour and then work to create their own dragon based on the inheritance of traits.(Adapted from ASIM).

Macroevolution and microevolution are defined, along with mutation, migration, genetic drift, and natural selection, which are "established mechanisms of evolutionary change."