Trait Inventory in Humans and Fruit Flies
Fruit fly comparisons.
Jennifer Childress, Richard Behringer, and Georg Halder. 2005. Genesis 43(1).
Students learn that traits are genetic: transmitted from parent to offspring. In this lesson, they will be developing and testing hypotheses about how traits are transmitted from parents to offspring. Ask the students the following question, What do they know about the transmission of traits from parents to offspring?
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This activity was funded by NSF Grant 1457800 to Erin S. Kelleher © University of Houston. Dissemination provided by Baylor College of Medicine via its BioEd Online Website.