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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Biology: Gene Regulation and Mutation: Self Check Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Try these five self-checking multiple choice questions over gene regulation and mutation.
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Handout
Other

University of Illinois: Population Genetics [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Illinois at Chicago provides an in-depth article on Human Genetics, with a focus on primarily population genetics. The article is factual and informative full of charts, formulas, and extensive text. A...
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Lesson Plan
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Genetica Humana

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a great unit on human genetics. It contains 17 interactive activities.
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Interactive
BioMan Biology

Bio Man Biology: Angry Aliens: Evolution

For Students 4th - 6th
Teach aliens about evolution as you play this game, and review your own understanding in the process. Topics covered include evolutionary mechanisms, evidence of evolution, natural selection, reproductive isolation, population genetics,...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Forces of Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will explore the factors that lead to evolution such as genetic mutation, gene drift and gene flow.
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Handout
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dna From the Beginning: Mutations Are Changes in Genetic Information

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explains how and why mutations are so important to genetics.
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Handout
City University of New York

Bio Lab Module: Breaking the Genetic Code

For Students 9th - 10th
Try this interactive module from the Brooklyn College to help understand the genetic code and how changes in the code effect the final protein product.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Mechanisms of Genetics: Dna Changes

For Students 9th - 10th
Given illustrations or partial DNA sequences, students will identify changes in DNA and the significance of these changes.
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Other

Johns Hopkins Univ.:baltimore Huntington's Disease Cent.

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of Huntington's disease, including history of disease, characteristics of disorder, nature of mutation, treatment, and son on.
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Handout
Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: Thomas Hunt Morgan and His Legacy

For Students 9th - 10th
This detailed article from the Nobel e-Museum explores Thomas Hunt Morgan's career and research in genetics. Read how Morgan's work influenced later scientists and the modern scientific world.
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The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Abpi: Genes and Inheritance

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete, student-paced lesson on genetics and inheritance. Students work their way through illustrations and animated tutorials, and answer review questions along the way. There is a self-checking quiz at the end of the lesson.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Heredity: Your Connection to the Past

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An indepth introduction to genetics as a whole with sample lessons, vocabulary, and bibliography. From the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
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Article
Biotechnology Institute

Biotechnology Institute: Your World: Fighting Cancer With Biotechnology [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This Biotechnology Institute issue focuses on the role of genetics in cancer. Find out about several types of cancer, the risks, treatments available now, and the treatments of the future.
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Other

Gene Expression & Regulation

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides some very straight forward information regarding genetic information an DNA. Find out about synthesizing proteins, the Central Dogma of molecular biology, and much more.
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University of Washington

Genome Sciences Education Outreach: Sickle Cell Anemia [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will use a Sickle Cell Anemia case study to learn about allele frequencies, genetics, and molecular biology.
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Hhmi: Bio Interactive: The Molecular Evolution of Gene Birth and Death

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An advanced instructional activity that describes the role of mutations in the birth and death of genes. It includes background information, examples, video clips, and animations.
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Handout
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Advantage of Sex: Sexual Versus Asexual Reproduction

For Students 9th - 10th
Why did sex evolve? The likely answers, in this essay written for the PBS series "Evolution" by science journalist Matt Ridley, may surprise you.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What Is Leukemia?

For Students 9th - 10th
Stem cells found in the bone marrow are crucial for our health because they are needed to become new blood cells that sustain and protect our bodies. But when the transformation goes wrong, harmful mutations can cause the cells to start...
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Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Natural Selection

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore natural selection by controlling the environment and causing mutations in bunnies.
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Lesson Plan
Indiana University

Ensi: Comparison of Human: Chimpanzee Chromosomes Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a great lesson plan that combines Karoytypes and evolution. Students will recognize that the chromosomes of chimpanzees and humans are remarkably similar, then correlate that to their evolutionary relationship.
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eBook
Biology Pages

Kimball's Biology Pages: Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses conditions needed for the Hardy-Weinberg Law to hold true and demonstrates calculations involving allelic frequencies to illustrate this principle.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sickle Versus Normal Cell

For Students 6th - 8th
Background image of normal disc-shaped red blood cells from the University of Utah. Inset shows sickled red blood cells, curved and rigid, from the Virginia Medical College.
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Handout
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Your Genes, Your Health: Marfan Syndrome

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn all about Marfan Syndrome at this colorful, simple, interactive sight. Includes video options.
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Handout
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Your Genes, Your Health: Tay Sachs

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discover what Tay-Sachs disease is and how to treat it.

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