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City University of New York

Brooklyn College: Medelian Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
This set of seven activities will proved a thorough review of Mendel's work. The interactive experiments are easy to follow and drive home the concepts.
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Handout
University of Hamburg

University of Hamburg: Deviations From Mendelian Laws And: What Is the Meaning of Dominance?

For Students 9th - 10th
Upper level discussion of several of Mendel's experiments and laws.
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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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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Mendelian Inheritance

For Students 9th - 10th
Students use this article to identify how probability is used to predict outcomes of genetic crosses.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Non Mendelian Inheritance

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In all of Mendel's experiments, he worked with traits where a single gene controlled the trait. Each also had one allele that was always dominant over the recessive...
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Other

University of Illinois Chicago: Human Genetics: Mendelian Inheritance

For Students 9th - 10th
Great genetics site with a very good section on Punnett squares.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Basic Concepts of Heredity

For Students 9th - 10th
An introductory lesson on the basics of heredity, and the inheritance of genetic traits. [7:57]
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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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Website
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Genes, Health, and Society

For Students 9th - 10th
A web-based course which allows students to explore the fields of genetics and genomics. The three course modules are transmission genetics, the nature of genetic material, and medical genetics and genomics. Use of this resource requires...
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Variations on Mendel's Laws (Overview)

For Students 9th - 10th
Article reviews Mendel's basic model of inheritance then provides an overview of variations on Mendel's laws, including multiple alleles, incomplete dominance, co-dominance, pleiotropy, lethal alleles, sex linkage, genetic interactions,...
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Article
Story Behind the Science

Story Behind the Science: The Work of Gregor Mendel [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed biography of Gregor Johann Mendel, famous for his foundational work in the field of genetics. Questions are posed throughout about the nature of scientific research.
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Unit Plan
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dna From the Beginning: Genes Come in Pairs

For Students 9th - 10th
This animated lesson will explain how genes are inherited in pairs, one from the mother and one from the father.
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dna From the Beginning: Some Genes Are Dominant

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the principle of dominance as you watch animations showing Mendel's experiments with pea plants. Find out what happened when he crossed plants that produced green seeds with those that produced yellow seeds.
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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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Website
Other

Mendel Web

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, built upon Gregor Mendel's famous paper of 1865, is a teaching and learning resource complete with the full text of his paper, various texts, essays and commentaries, reference materials, and much more.
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Lesson Plan
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Pedigree Analysis: A Family Tree of Traits

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Some characteristics, like the shape of your hairline, whether your earlobes are attached or detached, and whether or not you have freckles are inherited from your parents. In this science project you will learn about Mendelian traits,...
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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Multiple Alleles, Incomplete Dominance, and Codominance

For Students 9th - 10th
In the real world, genes often come in many versions (alleles). Alleles aren't always fully dominant or recessive to one another, but may instead display codominance or incomplete dominance.
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Handout
Other

Evolution: The Theory of Natural Selection (Part 1)

For Students 9th - 10th
These pages are part of a site called Evolution that accompany a textbook by the same name. Mark Ridley is the author. This section has an advanced discussion of determining allele and genotype frequencies using the Hardy-Weinberg ratio.
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Other

North Dakota State Univ.: Mendel's Law of Ind. Assort.

For Students 9th - 10th
Mendel's second law and how he arrived at it through his experiments. Includes vocabulary and examples.
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Other

Personal Site / Mendels Discoveries

For Students 9th - 10th
This personal site gives the seven characteristics that Mendel observed and a fairly large background to what Mendel saw and interpreted.
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Other

North Dakota State: Mendel's First Law (Law of Segregation)

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource explains Mendel's first law (Law of Segregation) in detail. Includes Mendel's original experiments with results and conclusions.
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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Inheritance of Mitochondrial and Chloroplast Dna

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA, and why its inheritance does not follow Mendelian patterns.
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Article
Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Trofim Lysenko

For Students 9th - 10th
Meet the Ukranian scientist known for his experimental research in improved crop yields called vernalization. However, he rejected Mendelian genetics in favor of pseudoscientific ideas.
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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Human Inheritance Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive study guide covers the main terms and concepts needed for a unit on human inheritance.

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