Life Science

A review on how to calculate percent. We will be needing to calculate percent when we investigate probability of the different traits of the all the students in your class. 

Video-  In Genes students will join Bill Nye as he explores the chromosomal world of DNA and visits a veterinarian from Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo who helps save endangered animals using gene technology.

Genetics basics-traits, probability, and heredity

Video - TED Ed overview of Gregor Mendel's contributions to genetics. 

How Mendel's pea plants helped us understand genet 

Each father and mother pass 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.

Lesson by Hortensia Jiménez Díaz, animation by Cinematic Sweden

Students learn about how to use a Punnett square. The Punnett square is a diagram that is used to predict an outcome of a particular cross or breeding experiment. It is named after Reginald C. Punnett, who devised the approach. The diagram is used by biologists to determine the probability of an offspring's having a particular genotype/phenotype.

Video - Learn how the domestication of dogs might have taken place, including the theory of biologist Raymond Coppinger that it was the animals themselves - and human trash - that inspired the transformation. The genetic analysis of Peter Savolainen of the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden has placed the origins of domesticated dogs - and those of the first dog - in East Asia. You'll also discover 14 dog breeds that controversial genetic studies show are the most ancient - and the best living representatives of the ancestors to all living dogs.