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INHERITANCE
INHERITANCE
Genes may be the building blocks of all life, but human understanding of them is a relatively recent development.
Before working on the project get up to date with this interactive timeline:
https://unlockinglifescode.org/timeline?tid=4
It offers an overview of our understanding of genetics from back in 1865, when German-speaking monk Gregor Mendel first presented the findings of his experiments on pea plants, right through to the discovery of the double helix in 1953.
Who was Gregor Johann Mendel? Find out some information about him and why he is considered the founder of the new science of genetics.
Who was Gregor Johann Mendel? Find out some information about him and why he is considered the founder of the new science of genetics.
How did he work out the basic law of heredity?
How did he work out the basic law of heredity?
To explore Mendel’s pea theory in more depth, check out TEDed’s interesting animated video.
Each father and mother passes down traits to their children, who inherit combinations of their dominant or recessive alleles. But how do we know so much about genetics today?
Hortensia Jiménez Díaz explains how studying pea plants revealed why you may have blue eyes.
How Mendel's pea plants helped us understand genetics (you can set the subtitles in Spanish)
If you need more information or you have doubts you can also watch this video in Spanish:
After watching the video, answer the following questions.
After watching the video, answer the following questions.
What did Gregor Mendel use to discover the principles that rule heredity?
What happened to the green trait in Mendel's pea plants?
What did Mendel call the two kinds of traits exhibited by the pea plants (one coming from the father, one from the mother)?
What do we call the result of the genotype (for example, the color of the peas)?
What do we call the table used to calculate the probability of an offspring's genotype?
In a few words, describe the differences in a recessive phenotype and a dominant genotype.
Here you have a list of different human traits. Which of these traits did you inherit from your parents? Or your grandparents?
Write a description of this member of your family you resemble.
Write a description of this member of your family you resemble.
In what ways are you similar? Do you share only physical traits or you also have similar character traits? You can include photographs, drawings….so that it looks like an appealing X-ray of you both!
How should it be delivered?
How should it be delivered?
Format: Text document (word)
Where: Moodle site in #LESORENETESALNIU project
Delivery date: 24th April ‘20
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