Soap Opera Genetics --Genetics to Resolve Family Arguments

This minds-on discussion/worksheet activity contains five episodes that can be used to reinforce understanding of genetic principles and the relevance of genetics to everyday life. Each episode focuses on different fundamental genetics concepts, including Punnett squares, codominance, incomplete dominance, sex-linked inheritance, test cross, polygenic inheritance and the interacting effects of genes and the environment on phenotypic characteristics,. You can use all five episodes or use just the specific episodes that help students to understand the specific topics you want to review.

The first attached file has the Student Handout and the second attached file has the Teacher Notes.

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August 2012 revision [5]

Submitted by iwaldron on Fri, 08/03/2012 - 7:13am.

This revised version includes a new episode that focuses on the interacting effects of genes and environment on phenotypic characteristics, as well as improved questions in other episodes.