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Become familiar with the basic concepts of inheritance. Your junior high students work through mulitple examples of crosses and calculate probabilities of trait occurance. The explain the concept that each parent contributes one half of the genetic material for each offspring. They see how geneticist produces hybrids for farmers.

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Grade
5th - 8th
Subjects
Science
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Inquiry-Based Learning

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