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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Mendelian and Molecular Genetics Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Take this interactive quiz over Mendelian and molecular genetics, then review your score and any missed questions at the end.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Genetics Quiz

For Students 6th - 8th
Take an interactive quiz over genetics. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Dragon Science: Food for Thought

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate how geneticists use selective breeding to capitalize on hybrid vigor by using colored chips to represent traits in succeeding generations. Use Explain why farmers must buy new hybrid seed each year.
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Genetic Inheritance Aqa

For Students 9th - 10th
Our genes are inherited from our parents, and the different combinations of these genes make us unique. Genetic inheritance controls the characteristics of all living things. This lesson focuses on the inheritance of biological sex in...
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Genetic Inheritance Aqa

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on genetic key terms; it defines them and explains what they do. It provides links to a video and a test.
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Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Comparison of Reciprocal Cross vs. Test Cross

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains two types of genetic cross - a reciprocal cross and a test cross. Examples are described for a monohybrid and a dihybrid test cross and for a reciprocal cross.
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Activity
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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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Mendel's Laws and Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes genotype and phenotype, and how genes are inherited.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Pass It Down

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson, Pass It Down, integrates science and math into two consecutive hands-on genetics activities that should be embedded within an existing genetics unit suitable for biology students. The results of each activity will be...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Classical Genetics Unit Test

For Students 9th - 10th
Take this 9-question unit test over classical genetics.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 13.11 Molecular Genetics Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn genetics and inheritance works on a molecular level.
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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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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Mendelian Inheritance Study Guide

For Students 4th - 9th
Review the processes of basic Mendelian genetics.
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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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Palomar Community College District

Palomar College: Flashcards: Molecular Level of Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you understand the topic of genetics? These flash cards will test your knowledge of the molecular level of genetics.
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BioMan Biology

Bio Man Biology: Genetics and Meiosis Quizzes

For Students 9th - 10th
A multiple-choice quiz on genetics terms and concepts.
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Handout
Treehut

Suzy's World: Genetics Why Do You Look Like You?

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site explores the role genetics plays in making you look the way that you do. Content includes fun facts and a classroom experiment.
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Unit Plan
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."
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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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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Types of Traits: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain that genotypes can be either homozygous or heterozygous. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Types of Traits."
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Types of Traits: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain that genotypes can be either homozygous or heterozygous. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Types of Traits."
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Types of Traits: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain that genotypes can be either homozygous or heterozygous. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Types of Traits."
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Biology for Kids: Hereditary Patterns

For Students 1st - 9th
A site with information about the hereditary patterns in the science of biology including dominant and recessive genes, alleles, the Punnet square, examples, and interesting facts.
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: What Makes You You? What Makes Me Me?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Simple animation explains the function of chromosomes, genes, and DNA by letting you zoom into a cell nucleus for a closer look.