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Hagrid’s Dragons
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The purpose of this activity is to see what you know about genetics before we start this unit. To do this, you will
design a dragon that will mate with another and produce an offspring.
1. Your dragon is missing a few parts. To fix this, do the following to your dragon (Parent 1).
o Design and draw your dragon’s wing(s).
o Decide whether or not your dragon has a horn on its nose. If it does, draw it.
o Decide what color(s) your dragon is/are and color it that color.
2. Your dragon is going to mate with another dragon in your class. Find a partner and copy their dragon in
the Parent 2 space OR swap papers and have them copy their dragon into the Parent 2 space.
3. Congratulations! Your baby dragon has been born. With your partner, figure out what your baby’s
wings will look like, whether or not they will have a horn, and what color(s) your baby will be. Draw
these features on your offspring dragon.
4. Identify the gender of each member of your dragon family and write it in the space provided.
5. Complete the debrief questions at the back.
Parent 1
Parent 2
Gender:
Gender:
Offspring
Gender:
Using as many of the terms in the box as you can, answer the following questions:
1. Explain why your baby dragon looks the way it does for these traits:
a. Wing
b. Color
c. Horn or No Horn
2. Was this asexual or sexual reproduction?
How do you know?
3. What do parents pass onto their offspring?
4. How can you predict whether or not your offspring will have a horn or not?
5. Do you know how to use this? If so, show me. What is it used for?
DNA
Gene
Chromosome
Trait
Dominant
Recessive
Allele
Punnett Square
Sexual Reproduction
Asexual Reproduction
Inherited
Phenotype
Genotype
Homozygous
Heterozygous
Monohybrid
hh
Hh
HH