Toothpick Fish - Exploring Patterns in Genetic Inheritance
Added: 27 Mar 2019
Contributor:
Wendy Gilmore
Resource type:
Assessment
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Scheme Of Work
Make sense of genetic inheritance using a 'toothpick fish' analogy to help further your understanding of key concepts such as dominant and recessive genes, homozygous and heterozygous alleles. This game supports assessment for learning and many of Gardner's multiple intelligences in a variety of ways for more fruitful learning.
How it maps to the curriculum
- SC
- Biology
Strand: 2. The Cell
Strand unit: 5. Genetics
Suggestions for use: A paired group activity to aid students get a better understanding of genetic inheritance. Students work in group to select traits for fish skin colour at random and gain knowledge of how dominant, recessive and co-dominant alleles are passed on from one generation to the next, recording their finding as they complete each task.
