Student Background / Prior Knowledge
- A teacher might be able to use this activity to introduce the basic concepts of heredity and embryology.
or
- A teacher could use it to enhance their student's prior knowledge of
- what chromosomes are
- how gametogenesis work
- how DNA and proteins are associated
- what genotypes and phenotypes are
- the importance of the egg.... the prime cell
- the concept of 1n and 2n
- mitosis--and how it is like, and not like, meiosis
- the number of chromosome pairs that parents have in their body cells and in their gonads
- the number of chromosomes that each parent "donates" to the next generation
- dominant and recessive genes
- co-dominant genes
- epistasis
- sex-linked traits
- polygenic inheritance.
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