DNA and Genetics Unit Part 5: Genetics

This unit includes 12 lessons (50 minutes each) and 20 pages of printable work bundle. The Work Bundle has students fill-in critical notes (red slides), conduct exciting hands-on activities, answer questions, interpret graphs, complete amazing Punnett Squares, includes games, built-in quizzes, and much more. The work bundles chronologically follow the detailed and interactive set of slideshows. A 20 question quiz game concludes for a great review and additional assessment. Answer Keys, video links, crosswords, built-in quizzes, and much more are provided. Everything you need to run a fantastic learning experience is provided. Everything arrives in editable format if you want add in your own slides and activities, and the slideshows and work bundles can easily be converted into Google Slides / docs for friendly Google Classroom learning.

Areas of Focus within this PowerPoint: This PowerPoint begins describing some various Phenotypes and gets students involved right away rolling their tongue, looking for widows peak, attached ear lobes and much more. Students then see a wheel that describes their genetic number and see if any other students share their genetic phenotypes, Important vocabulary is described and instructions on how these terms will appear in blue print is described. The PowerPoint then goes on to describe these important notes by describing Gregor Mendel and his work with pea plants, Dominance and recessive, Punnett Squares, Homozygous, heterozygous, How gender is determined, and a focus on probability are all discussed. After a tutorial on Punnett Squares, students go the pet store and get two black gerbils. After several rounds of inbreeding and step by step Punnett squares, the black gerbils (Heterozygous) have white offspring over many generations. Dihybrid crosses are then described in step by step fashion as well as codominance, and incomplete dominance. Some hidden box games and PowerPoint review game conclude this section of the the lesson bundle. Everything you need to run a fantastic unit on Genetics is provided.

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