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Heredity And Environment

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Students complete a pre-test on the relationship between heredity and the environment. As a class, they write down descriptions of themselves and identify which traits can be changed and not changed. In groups, they determine which genes are dominant and recessive and develop a model of DNA. To end the instructional activity, they research a genetic disorder and write a geneotype for each member of the class.

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5th - 8th
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