All About Genetics!
I created this Web quest for you to explore more about the enormous topic of Genetics and all that is out there to learn! Take your time as you scroll through these sites. Look at the pictures and read the content carefully.
Directions:Click on the websites located above the questions, to find the answers. I hope you enjoy it. Now let's begin.
Go to the following website:
http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/ahp/BioInfo/GP/Definition.html
1. Define the two words. You can paraphrase. Please don't copy exactly from the text.
Phenotype: ____________________________________________
Genotype: _____________________________________________
Click on the following website. Read these directions FIRST please!
- Click on “Tour of Basic Genetics"
- Click "What is a Trait” which is the second one down.
- Then hit "NEXT" to get to each slide.
- For questions #2-#5 watch the tutorial. TAKE YOUR TIME AND READ EACH SLIDE!!!!
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/
2. What is an example of a predisposition to a medical condition? (hint: click "next" three times)
3. What defines our physical traits?
4. What does homozygous mean? (hint: you will see the answer on the slides with the thumbs!)
5. Which is dominant, Hitchhikers Thumb or Straight Thumb?
6. What did the couple’s children have for genotypes? (I am looking for letters here. For example: hh) List the only 3 possibilities.
Now, Go to the following website:
http://www.cfnz.org.nz/about-cystic-fibrosis/65-roses/
6. Why is cystic fibrosis called "65 roses"?
Go to this website and scroll down to answer the following question.
http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/resources/whats_a_genome/Chp1_2_1.shtml
7. How many chromosomes does a sunflower have? _______ puffer fish?_______
dog?________
7a. What is the neon colored picture of a bunch of chromosomes called?
Now go to this website.http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/do-identical-twins-have-identical-fingerprints-0399/
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8. Do identical twins have identical fingerprints? Why or why not?
Go to this website.
http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/1/concept/
Click on "Bio" at the top
9. How many pea plants did Gregor Mendel grow? How long did his experiments take him? What year were they published?
Go to this website (Should be the same as the last)
http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/1/concept/ and click on "Problem".
Click on the correct answer to keep going through the tutorial. Hit the right arrow at the bottom right when you are ready to go to the next slide.
Follow the tutorial through to the end.
There is no question to answer here.
Go to this website: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/traits/. Hit "Observable Human Characteristics ".
10. Look at the 7th Trait that they describe in the slideshow. Which one of these do you have?
Now Click at the website below.
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/
Click on Chromosomes and inheritance.
Now click on " Make a karyotype".
Read the paragraph.
11. What is a karyotype?
Click the website below.
http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/evans/his135/events/dolly96/dolly_module.html
12. What was the name of the famous lamb cloned in 1996? Who was Dolly and why was she so special?
Go to this website here:
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/disorders/
13. What are genetic disorders?
14. List 5 genetic disorders here:
Read the article about DNA here:
http://www.genome.gov/11006943
15. What is a Genome?
16. How many nitrogen base pairs are there Human Genome?
Click the link below. Then Scroll down to read “how small are your genes?”
http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/stories/genes/
http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/stories/genes/
17. What is the Greek meaning for the words “Chromo" and "some"?
Now click this link to answer number 20.
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEPC/NIH/gene05.html
20. How many (I want a number here) diseases are thought to stem from mutated genes?
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEPC/NIH/gene09.html
21. What is gene testing?
http://genetics.thetech.org/about-genetics/ethics
22. What is one ethical problem that comes with genetic testing?
23. Now Scroll down to the area that says Food For Thought. What is a problem with this?
http://genetics.thetech.org/about-genetics/ethics
23. What does polygenic mean? Hint: Look under the heading "why we are different" !
Play Squish the Fish for fun, now that you are done!
http://www.sheddaquarium.org/SEA/interactive_module.cfm?id=8#
