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4 activities: 4 games
41 minActivity 1: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 5 min
Visually explore virtual generations of genetics in a few clicks! You will be given a character who you will give three traits of your choosing to. Next, you will get to watch your character fall in love and produce offspring. Notice what traits the baby exhibits from the parents! You will also see what happens when mutations occur!
Teacher Ratings (73) 3.6 stars.
Student Ratings (27381) 3.4 stars.
Activity 2: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 16 min
In this game, you will use Punnett squares to breed plants with desired traits. You will have to learn about and take into consideration homozygous and heterozygous dominant/recessive types, incomplete dominance, and codominance. Correctly breed all the desired plants to win. Afterward, you will take a quiz testing what you learned.
Teacher Ratings (99) 4.2 stars.
Student Ratings (22271) 3.1 stars.
Activity 3: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 13 min
In this game, you will have to breed cats according to their genotype and phenotype to produce cats with the desired traits. Once given the criteria you have to mate a male and female with dominant and recessive traits to get the desired offspring. After fulfilling each customer's order, you will have to answer a question about genotypes, phenotypes, alleles, and heredity. Complete all cat requests to win.
Teacher Ratings (9) 3.0 stars.
Student Ratings (2069) 3.7 stars.
Activity 4: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 7 min
In this game, you will learn about genetics. A zookeeper has mixed up children and parents in the zoo. It's your job to use genetic information to place children with the correct parents. Many traits are inherited, so you will use clues to match parents with children. Study each genetic report carefully to make sure you can get these children back to their parents. Good luck!
Teacher Ratings (394) 4.3 stars.
Student Ratings (104434) 3.7 stars.