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Genetics & Heredity Lecture Materials

These are the Mendelian Genetics & Heredity Lecture materials of the Virtual Cell Biology Classroom. The resources below are used to supplement an actual college cell biology course. Anyone taking, teaching or interested in biology may find these materials helpful and is welcome to use them.

The Mendelian Genetics & Heredity Lecture materials include:

a list of learning objectives

a PowerPoint lecture

"class note" articles

practice test questions

review questions

photos of certain simple inheritance genetics traits

an in-class activity worksheet

links to additional educational materials

GENETICS & HEREDITY LECTURE LEARNING OBJECTIVES

These lecture learning objectives are a study guide based on the VCBC Mendelian Genetics & Heredity Lecture PowerPoint:

Genotypes, phenotypes, alleles, homozygous, heterozygous; know what these terms mean.

Know who Mendel was, and be able to explain his contribution to science.

Understand what potential genotype underlies a dominant or a recessive phenotype (remember the bent finger examples and the other examples of simple inheritance that we covered in the chart.)

Understand Mendel’s Laws of Dominance, Segregation and Independent Assortment.

Understand the genetic terms; character, trait, hybridization, true-bred, P generation, F1 and F2 generations.

Be able to do a Punnett Square cross for simple traits, as we covered in class.

What is incomplete dominance?

What does codominance mean?

Explain ABO bloodtypes. What blood type is best to have if you are receiving blood? What is the best blood type to have if you are donating blood? Why?

GENETICS & HEREDITY LECTURE POWERPOINT

All of the lecture PowerPoints used in the Virtual Cell Biology Classroom have fill-in-the-blanks on many of the slides to encourage students to pay attention and follow along during the presentation. Instructors, contact us for the information that goes in the blanks.

HELPFUL TIPS: Some of the PowerPoint presentations are large files and may take a few moments to download, depending on the speed of your internet connection. If you are printing a hard copy of the PowerPoint, you can save paper by selecting Handouts (rather than Slides) in the "Print What:" drop down menu of the PPT print screen. Then you can choose the number of slides you want to have on each printed page. If the printed PPT presentation is to be used as student notes, it is best to choose handouts with 2 or 3 slides per page.

GENETIC & HEREDITY CLASS NOTES

Here are brief summaries of some of the various subtopics and concepts introduced in this lecture, kind of like really good class notes.

Ten Human Genetic Traits of Simple Inheritance

GENETICS & HEREDITY PRACTICE TEST QUESTIONS Part I & Part II

Practice test questions designed to help you better understand the material from this lecture. They are based on information in the Mendelian Genetics & Heredity PowerPoint Lecture.

GENETICS & HEREDITY REVIEW QUESTIONS

Questions designed to help you review the material in the Menelian Genetics & Heredity Lecture.

GENETICS & HEREDITY PHOTOS

The images linked here directly relate to this lecture material and are designed to help student review and study while outside of class.

GENETICS & HEREDITY IN-CLASS WORKSHEET

Word document of a simple inheritance worksheet given to students at the end of lecture. This tool helps the students review the main messages of the lecture while allowing the instructor to assess the class' understanding of the material.

MORE GENETICS & HEREDITY LINKS

Independent Assortment animation, step-through and quiz, WHFreeman.

Mendel’s Experiments animation, step-through and quiz, Freeman, S, Biological Science, Second Edition, Pearson Prentice Hall, Inc.© 2006

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