Mendel’s Pea Plants
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Lesson Plan Publisher: Published by Lesson Plans Inc. |
Type: Worksheet
Grade Level: High School
Time Length: 30 minutes
Summary: Students will learn how Mendel discovered classical genetics using pea plants. Students will learn classical genetic terminology, punnett squares and probability. Included terms: monohybrid cross, dominant, recessive, traits, alleles, law of segregation, homozygous, heterozygous, genotype, phenotype, and how to calculate genotypic and phenotypic ratios.
Standards: California - Biology 3a. Students know how to predict the probable outcome of phenotypes in a genetic cross from the genotypes of the parents and mode of inheritance (autosomal or X-linked, dominant or recessive). 3b. Students know the genetic basis for Mendel’s laws of segregation and independent assortment.
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Updated Date 10/01/11
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