Who Wants to Live a Million Years? Genetics Essential Questions. Topics - GeneEd - Genetics, Education, Discovery. DNA from the Beginning - An animated primer of 75 experiments that made modern genetics. DNA from the Beginning is organized around key concepts. The science behind each concept is explained by: animation, image gallery, video interviews, problem, biographies, and links. DNAftb blog: It's the season of hibernation, something I've always wished I could do. Oh, to wrap up in a ball, sleep away the winter, and wake to a beautiful spring day – like Bambi! Although the thought has always intrigued me, it never really occurred to me what a feat hibernation actually is. It turns out that all of the bears, squirrels, rabbits ... that I thought were just sleeping, are breaking biological laws!! Feature: We have relaunched the Weed to Wonder site as a flexible "e-book" that can be viewed as a website, an app, or a printable PDF.
Mailing List Gene News - ‘Alien’ DNA makes proteins in living cells for the first time Find the DNALC on: Language options: Why Dogs Have Floppy Ears. Tuesday is an anniversary worth noting: On Jan. 30, 1868, Charles Darwin published a follow-up to his masterpiece On The Origin Of Species. This less-popular tome (897 pages!) Contained a vexing puzzle: Why do pets and livestock tend to have "drooping ears? " Wolves, for example, have perky, upright ears. "The incapacity to erect the ears," Darwin concluded, "is certainly in some manner the result of domestication. " A century later, an ambitious (and adorable) experiment in the Soviet Union proved him right. Belyayev took 130 foxes from fur farms and started a breeding program.
In just a few dozen generations, Belyayev's foxes were tame. But what's behind this mysterious change? 5 Helpful Tips for Teaching Genetics | The TpT Blog. This post originally appeared on the blog Biology Roots. Here is #2 for my “5 Helpful Tips” series. If you missed the first one, check out 5 Helpful Tips for Teaching Photosynthesis. Genetics is one of my favorite things to teach *cue sparkly harp music*. I really look forward to teaching genetics! And one thing that makes it so fun for me is discussing human genetics. Here is a complete list of human genetic myths that you can read for your consideration.
Busting Student Misconceptions: Students tend to struggle with some terminology — it can be really difficult for students to differentiate between terms such as DNA, gene, and allele. Stay Science Classy, Vanessa Vanessa Jason is a Massachusetts native who loves designing captivating science resources; you can find her resources in her TpT store Biology Roots. Teacher Resources - GeneEd - Genetics, Education, Discovery. Lesson plans, genetic educational materials, printable activity sheets, and other teaching resources for educators seeking to increase genetic and genomic literacy. Biostatistics Basic Probability and Chi-Squared Tests (Lesson Plans/Lesson Activities) Description: An expert authored advanced in-class exercise teaching critical skills for classic genetic analysis, including probability, making predictions, and assessment.
Source: Genetics Society of America | URL: Human Genetic Variation: A Flipped Classroom Exercise in Cultural Competency (Lesson Plans/Lesson Activities) Description: An expert authored advanced in-class case discussion teaching concepts of population genetics and genetic variation. Source: Genetics Society of America | URL: Iceland’s Genetic Database: Good or Bad Idea? K-12 Statistics Education Webinars Population Genetics (Lesson Plans/Lesson Activities) Middle School Genetics Lessonplans, homework, quizzes. Genetics Lesson Plans: Punnett Squares, Heredity, & Meiosis.
Six creative ways to teach genetics | Teacher Network. Genetics. Introduction to Heredity and Traits. The 2004 publication Investigating Safety: A Guide for High School Teachers by Texley et al. has raised an alarm in the teaching community about the usefulness and safety of PTC taste testing. This has led to PTC being banned from many schools and districts - we believe unnecessarily. Yes, PTC is toxic. In rats, the most sensitive animals tested, the oral LD50 of PTC (the amount that killed 50% of test animals) is 3 mg/kg.
However, PTC is so intensely bitter that tasters can detect it in miniscule quantities. A single test paper from Carolina Biological Supply contains just 0.007 mg of PTC. And the amount that is licked off the paper by a test subject is much less than this. In addition, there has not been a single report of toxicity arising from PTC taste testing, which has been performed on tens of millions of individuals worldwide.
First identical twins with different skin colour born in the UK Identical twins Amelia and Jasmine are thought be the first black and white twins born in the UK, despite coming from the same egg. The girls were born to mum Libby Appleby, 37, from West Rainton, County Durham who is white and her partner Tafadzwa Madzimbamuto, 40, who is black. They are identical or monozygotic twins, meaning they developed from the same zygote, which split and formed two embryos. Scroll down for video Libby Appleby, 37, from West Rainton, County Durham was told she wouldn't be able to tell her identical twin babies apart.
But Jasmine (left) and Amelia were born with contrasting skin tones Elder twin Amelia (right) has dark skin, black hair and brown eyes, her sister Jasmine has fair skin, blue eyes and mousey curls Monozygotic twins are always the same sex, share identical blood groups and genetic make-up and always closely resemble each other. When the girls were born Libby and her partner were flabbergasted, and even the doctors couldn't believe it. Loaded: 0% Why Women Are Stripey. Sex determination: More complicated than you thought - Aaron Reedy. Most mammals, like humans have an XY genetic system for determining sex where XX produces females and XY produces males.
However, sometimes when sex chromosomes are dividing during meiosis, non-disjunction occurs and embryos are formed with numbers of sex chromosomes different from those that are typical. For example on occasion males have the sex chromosomes XXY or XYY. There are also sometimes females with a single X chromosome or an XXX combination of sex chromosomes. There are even sometimes individuals who are genetically XY, but due to male hormone insensitivity, develop some or nearly all female characteristics. Research some of these cases in humans. What do these cases teach us about the way that sex chromosomes function to determine sex in mammals?