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Period_________
Online Heredity Lab
Mendel and his Peas
Mendel Animation
1. What fundamental questions did Mendel try to answer?
2. What does Homozygous mean?
3. What is a Gamete?
4. What is a Phenotype?
5. Explain how a trait can disappear and then reappear in later generations.
Mendel’s Discoveries
6. What are the seven traits of Pea Plants that Mendel Studied?
7. What was Mendel’s masked traits?
8. How do we Label traits?
9. What are Filials?
10. How can Scientists working separately help us learn about science?
What are Genes?
11. Where are most of your genes found?
12. What is DNA? Describe the DNA molecule.
13. What is the Genetic Code?
14. What are Genes? And what do they do?
15. What are Chromosomes?
Monk Rap
16. How did Mendel conduct his experiments?
17. What did Mendel discover about Genetics?
18. Why was counting so important to Mendel’s discoveries?
Pea Soup
19. Pick two parents and Breed them, what were their offspring?
20. Pick two offspring and breed them, what are their offspring?
21. Pick two more offspring and Breed them, what are your results?
22. Now pick the type of Pea you want to breed for and try to breed them, Write the steps
took to get your desired peas.
The Goal of Genetics
23. Answer the ten questions and write down your final score ____________.
Probability in Heredity
Flipping It
24. Flip the coin 10 times, did you get 50% heads and 50% tails?
25. Write the sequence of your flips.
Patterns are not Random
26. Coin Probability, Flip the coin and record your data for the following number of flips.
1
2
10
100
1000
10,000
1
27. Color Spinner, Spin the spinner and try to get the graph so each color is as close to 20%
as you can. Write your data and draw your graph for the following number of spins.
10
50
100
200
1
28. Dice Probability, Roll the dice and try to get as close to the pyramid graph as you can,
record your data and draw your graph for the following number of roles.
10
50
100
250
Probability Explained
29. What is a Punnett Square used for?
30. How can Punnett Squares be useful to people?
31. List four diseases that Punnett Squares can help people understand the probability of
passing the disease to their offspring.
Punnett Squares
32. Who Developed the Punnett Square?
33. What is Mendel’s Law of Segregation?
34. Can Punnett squares help you determine which trait is Dominant and Recessive?
Punnett Penalty Kicks
35. Try and take as many penalty kicks as you can. What’s your score?________________
Inheritance and the Cell
What is Heredity?
36. What is Heredity?
37. What affects the traits we have?
38. How do we get traits from our parents?
39. How many Chromosomes do we get from our parents?
40. How many Chromosomes do we have? Explain how we get them.
41. Why are we so different from our brothers and sisters?
What is a Trait?
42. What is a Trait?
43. What are Physical Traits?
44. What are Behavioral Traits?
45. How can we change Traits? (give examples)
46. How are Traits determined?
47. How are Traits inherited?
Dominant and Recessive Traits
48. Identify the Traits that you have that are Dominant and Recessive.
Dominant
Recessive
Where do our Traits come from?
49. Where do your Genes come from?
50. What are Homologous Chromosomes?
51. Why are X and Y Chromosomes special? What do they determine?
52. How are Sperm and Egg cells different from other cells?
53. What is Genetic Recombination?
Dog Breeding Game
54. Breed for three dogs on at level 1, 2 and 3. Write the characteristics of the parents and
the ratio of getting a puppy with the desired Traits. You get to choose the traits you are
breading for. Good Luck and remember, happiness is a warm puppy.
Pass the Genes Please
55. Can you match the picture of Melvin so his parents are happy, you have to choose the
genes to give Melvin, from both his parents. Write the genes and draw the trait.
Hair Type
Hair Color
Dimples
Ears
Mix Those Genes
56. Choose three couples and write down their Phenotypes and Genotypes. And write down
the possible combinations of their offspring and their Phenotype and Genotypes.
It's a DNA thing!
What is DNA?
57. Where is DNA found?
58. What is a Double Helix?
59. What is DNA made of?
DNA Song
60. What does the DNA molecule do?
61. How do cells use DNA?
Journey to DNA
62. Write a story about your trip through DNA.
What is a Chromosome?
63. How long are DNA Molecules?
64. How many Chromosomes do living things have?
DNA Extraction Lab
65. Write the steps to extract DNA.
Copy Cat
66. Explain why does a cloned cat not look like its parents?
Race the Cell
67. Try to build three molecules. Write your speed __________, __________, __________
Puzzling DNA
Put the puzzle together and draw it.
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