Garden peas and cabbage plants: A short 'de-simplified genetics' activity
Author(s): Pamela Kalas
University of British Columbia
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Description
This ready-to-use activity comes in the form of a short, editable slide deck composed of clicker questions, a "big reveal", and presenter's notes for instructors. It is entirely based on, and inspired from, an article from The American Biology Teacher (Smith, 2014). It emphasizes the role of environment in phenotypic variation using the striking example of plants that are homozygous for Mendel's t allele (thus expected to be short), but grow very tall due to treatment with giberellins.
The activity is suitable for introductory biology/genetics lessons.
Article cited: Smith, M.U. (2014). It’s Not Your Grandmother’s Genetics Anymore! The American Biology Teacher 76(4): 224–229. https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2014.76.4.2
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Researchers should cite this work as follows:
- Kalas, P. (2024). Garden peas and cabbage plants: A short 'de-simplified genetics' activity. QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/E6QX-VD98