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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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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Thomas Hunt Morgan's experiments with the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) as a model system.
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Genetic Inheritance

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on genetic inheritance including defining key terms such as chromosomes, alleles, DNA, genes, genome, and more. Links to a video and a test are provided.
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Interactive
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dolan Dna Learning Center: Inheritance Calculator: Blank Make Your Own

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive Punnett Square calculator which allows students to work out patterns of inheritance for any autosomal recessive genetic trait or disease.
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PBS

Pbs: Our Genes/our Choices: The Probabilities of Problems: A Look at Inheritance

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learn how the genes inherited from two parents can be recombined in their offspring in this simulation activity. In addition, investigate the probabilities of passing on inherited genetic disorders.
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Handout
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Abpi: Active Science: Genes and Inheritance

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive website that explores information about genes, mitosis, meiosis, cloning, and gene mutation. Concepts are discussed in detail with an interactive glossary and animations. At the end of each section quick questions are...
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Graphic
National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Inheritance of Hemophilia

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains the X-linked inheritance of Hemophilia and includes a diagram.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 3.13 Sex Linked Inheritance

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the traits that are linked to genes on the sex chromosomes.
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Handout
Other

Human Genetics Multifactorial Inheritance

For Students 9th - 10th
On this University of Illinois at Chicago site you can get the importance of multifactorial inheritance, and numerous models to help illustrate the idea. There is a summary at the bottom for review, and an address to send questions to...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Mendelian Inheritance of Immunodeficiency Disorders

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this passage and study the graphics to complete the five-question quiz concerning the inheritance of immunodeficiency disorders.
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Handout
Palomar Community College District

Waynes Word: Multiple Gene (Polygenic) Inheritance

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explains and gives examples of polygenic inheritance.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Biology for Kids: Mendel and Inheritance

For Students 1st - 9th
Explore how genes are passed from one generation to the next including Punnet squares. Kids learn about Gregor Mendel and his theories and experiments on inheritance and genetics.
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Activity
University of Arizona

University of Arizona: Sex Linked Inheritance

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Arizona provides great information on a sex-linked inheritance problem set. This is a very good site to practice what you know about sex-linked problems. Each link is a problem.
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Other

Inheritance, Evolution, and Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about inheritance, evolution, and ecosystems. Some topics explored in the tutorial are five kingdoms, respiration, energy transfer, and nutrient cycle.
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Handout
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: How Genetic Disorders Are Inherited

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how genetic disorders are passed from parents to children as explained in this excerpt from Blazing a Genetic Trail, from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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Handout
Other

Suny: Biology: Pedigree Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
Pedigree inheritance is a method of examining inherited traits. Learn how to use this method and develop conclusions through these examples.
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Biologica: Web Lab, Mendel's Peas

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site see an online visual of meiosis, fertilization, and inheritance and play a game.
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eBook
National Institutes of Health

National Center for Biotechnology Information: Pedigree Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook discusses the topic of human pedigree analysis, a type of genetic science used to determine inherited characteristics.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Why Are Some Animal Groups So Successful?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Using squirrels as an example, young scholars will understand that some animal groups' inherited traits enable them to adapt and spread into many environments. Included in this lesson are videos showing the lesson in action, discussion...
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Lesson Plan
University of Washington

Genome Sciences Education Outreach: State Your Traits [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Multi-activity instructional activity in which students engage in learning about the inheritance of genetic traits.
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Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: The Gene Connection Show [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders will discover the difference between inherited traits and learned behaviors by bringing the traits to life in a game of charades. After that, the students will demonstrate knowledge of recessive and dominant traits as they...
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Article
Other

Oops Concepts and .Net Part 2: Inheritance, Abstraction, & Polymorphism

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an article that discusses different concepts of Object Oriented Programming for .NET programming languages.
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Activity
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix: Probability and Inheritance: Fill in the Pedigree

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use the chart and the key shown and drag the "symptom markers" to correctly illustrate which individuals are directly affected by the disease illustrated in the chart. You will need a sign-in to access...
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PPT
Tom Richey

Linked in Learning: Inherited Traits

For Students 3rd - 5th
Use this slideshow to teach your class the difference between inherited and learned traits. Includes a survey of traits, a data table, a chart with examples of inherited traits, and questions to spur engagement and discussion.

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