Download Genetic Trait Scavenger Hunt

Genetic Trait Scavenger Hunt
Name:__________________
Period:_________________
Assignment: To find people in your class who exhibit each of the heritable
traits listed below. You can only use a person’s name once on your list.
1. Find 2 people with attached ear lobes, and 2 people with unattached
ear lobes.
Attached: 1)____________________
2)____________________
Unattached 1)___________________
2)____________________
2. Find 2 people who can NOT roll their tongue.
Non-rollers: 1)_________________
2)___________________
3. Find someone who has a hitchhiker’s thumb.
Hitchhiker’s thumb:__________________________
4. Find a person who does not have brown eyes.
Name:__________________________
Eye color:____________
5. Find someone who has a shortened big toe.
Short big toe:_______________________
6. Find someone who is left-handed. Name:___________________
7. Find someone who has a Clockwise hair whorl. Name:____________
8. Find someone who has a counter-Clockwise hair whorl.
Name:___________________
9. Find 2 people who have widow’s peaks.
1)______________________
2)___________________
BONUS:
Find someone who tastes PTC as bitter.
Name:_______________
Find someone who does NOT taste PTC as bitter. Name:_____________