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Worksheet
Curated OER

Mitosis and Meiosis Exercise

For Students 9th - 11th
In this cell division learning exercise, students answer 15 multiple choice questions about both mitosis and meiosis. Topics include the outcomes of the processes, the phases of the processes and steps within each process.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Human Genetic Disorder Probabilities

For Students 9th - 12th
In this genetic disorders worksheet, students complete punnett squares for six different human genetic disorders. They predict the outcome of the offspring including the phenotypes and genotypes of each.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Genetics of Parenthood

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students draws the child's face and compares "mother's" and "father's" perception of characteristics. One student draws the child's face; partner writes a biography of the child at age 30- what is the child like, what have they...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Genetic Basis of Neurological Disorders

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Pupils explore neurological disorders. They examine the presence and absence of discernible genes. Students describe neruological diseases and draw faces of affected persons. They play a human neurology disorders learning game.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Genetic Basis of Neurological Disorders

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars describe some aspects of known genetic defects on the human neurological condition. They participate in a variety of exercises including drawings, games, and analogies.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Human Inheritance

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze genetic characteristics in a given family tree through the F2 generation. Students apply prior knowledge from Gregor Mendel's study with pea plants and his Laws of Heredity to answer questions.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Mitosis and Meiosis Exercise

For Students 7th - 12th
In this cell division worksheet, learners answer 13 multiple choice questions based on the process of mitosis and meiosis. Included are questions about the stages of cell division as well as the structures involved.
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Activity
University of Arizona

University of Arizona: Sex Linked Inheritance Set 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, provided by The University of Arizona, gives a good set of genetics problems that involve sex-linked genes. Great to review what you know! Links are provided to access the various subjects covered in this problem set.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Sex Linked Inheritance

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What determines if a baby is a male or female? Recall that you have 23 pairs of chromosomes-and one of those pairs is the sex chromosomes. Everyone has two sex...
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Handout
National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Sex Linked Inheritance: Drosophila

For Students 9th - 10th
Here are graphics illustrating an experiment with drosophila fruitflies. Sex-linked inheritance is demonstrated here using eye color alleles on X chromosomes. Site by Access Excellence.
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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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Website
Palomar Community College District

Palomar College: Sex Linked Genes

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource will explore sex-linked genes which are a form of genetic linkage that depends on the X and Y sex chromosomes.
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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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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: X Linked Inheritance

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the chromosomal basis of sex determination, X and Y chromosomes, and X-linkage.
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Unit Plan
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dna From the Beginning: Chromosomes Carry Genes

For Students 9th - 10th
Thomas Hunt Morgan will explain the research he did to determine that some traits are linked to the sex of an individual.
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Interactive
Palomar Community College District

Pc: Flashcards for Human Sex Chromosome Abnormalities

For Students 9th - 10th
A good way to review facts related to sex chromosome abnormalities. Use these helpful flashcards for a test review.
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Handout
National Institutes of Health

National Center for Biotechnology Information: Education

For Students 9th - 10th
This link has many tools to help understand the revolutionary sciences and discoveries in genetics.
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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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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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Handout
Sophia Learning

Sophia: X Linked Traits

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will give examples of disorders that are linked to genes on the X chromosome.
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Handout
Other

Human Genome Sequencing Center (Baylor College of Med)

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource presents information about the human genome sequencing project and has links to other genome projects besides the Human Genome Project.
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Cell Division

For Students 9th - 10th
Chromosomes carry genetic information in a molecule called DNA. A type of cell division called mitosis ensures that when a cell divides each new cell produced has the same genetic information. Links to a video and a test are provided.
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Handout
National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health

National Cancer Institute: What Are Gene Mutations?

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Genetic Disorders

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Some human genetic disorders are also X-linked or Y-linked, which means the faulty gene is carried on these sex chromosomes. Other genetic disorders are carried on...