Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1933
At this site from The Nobel Foundation you can read about Thomas Hunt Morgan, the scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine "for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity." This website is organized...
OneWorld UK
One World: Tiki the Penguin: Genetic Engineering: Whose Genes?
Come along with Tiki the Penguin as he discovers what makes you a human or him a penguin! This site details some of the major issues relative to genetics - such as genetic engineering - in a way that is interesting and relevant to kids.
Read Works
Read Works: Inheritance of Traits
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about learned and inherited traits. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Human Chromosomes and Genes
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers human autosomes and sex chromosomes.
Other
Fly Base
FlyBase is a database of drosophila genes and genomes. Drosophila is the genus of small flies, fruit flies, for example.
PBS
Pbs Nova: Gene Switches
Colorful, easy-to-understand slideshow on gene switches. These embryonic gene switches play a powerful, predominant role in the animal's basic body plan and other early functions. 8/1/2007
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Cracking the Code: Explore a Stretch of Code
Investigate the makeup and function of genes and genetic code by exploring an actual stretch of human DNA in this activity.
Estrella Mountain Community College
Estrella Mountain College: Cell Division and Meiosis
Resource provides a holistic and complete meiosis lesson with illustrations, animations, glossary, and links. Extremely detailed and helpful site.
Talk Origins Archive
Talk Origins Archive: Random Genetic Drift
Laurence Moran discusses one of the most important mechanisms of evolution, Random Genetic Drift.
Other
Lawrence Livermore National Lab: Probabilities of Traits
This site explains how to determine the chances of inheriting certain traits from our parents. It gives mathematical examples and exercises.
National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute: What Are Gene Mutations?
This website provides an answer to the following question: "What are Gene Mutations?" Many links are provided throughout this short description that access information on related subjects.
Other
I Can Do That: Dna Introduction
In story form, this complete site examines what DNA is, the structure of DNA, genes, and replication. For clarity purposes, the text is supplemented with drawings.
Texas A&M University
Peer Curricula: Cells Are Us
Find five instructional units on cells: levels of organization, interacting with the outside world, creating energy for the cell, coding and translating instructions, and making protein "machinery" to do things. Each unit is broken down...
Other
Oregon State University: Barleyworld
This is a site about barley that contains a list on the left with a link to a page about the North American Barley Genome Project.
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Don't Hate on the Trait" by Bird Brain Science
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...
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Behavioral Genetics
A useful introduction from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory on the study of how genetics and behavior are linked. Many useful resource links are included.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Reproduction, the Genome and Gene Expression
This lesson focuses on DNA including it's structure,components,and how it goes together to form genomes. It also provides to links to a video and a test.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Genetic Inheritance Aqa
This lesson focuses on genetic key terms; it defines them and explains what they do. It provides links to a video and a test.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Human Genome Project: Project Information
This site provides from the Human Genome Project provides basic information on the Human Genome Project. Among the items discussed is how genome sequencing is done, as well as information about the genome and proteome.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Human Chromosomes and Genes Study Guide
This comprehensive study guide covers the main terms and concepts needed for a unit on human chromosomes and genes.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Control of Gene Expression in Prokaryotes: The Lac Operon Model
Read this passage and study the charts to complete the five-question quiz related to the transmission of genetic information from the gene to the protein.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Control of Gene Expression in Eukaryotes: Stat3/hyper Ig E Syndrome
Read this passage and study the graphics to complete the following five-question quiz related to the transmission of genetic information from the gene to the protein.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Exploring an Individual's Temperament
Answer questions to practice for the MCAT on the topic of temperament.