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Slideshow:
Patterns of Inheritance
Gregor Mendel
SciShow Video:
Gregor Mendel: Great Minds
(10:55)
The Chronicle of Higher Education:
The Mendel-Darwin Connection
PBS:
What Darwin Didn't Know: Gregor Mendel and the Mechanism of Heredity
Gregor Mendel's Garden Tutorial
Mendel's 'Pea Soup' Experiment
Mendel's Experiments Tutorial
Mendel's Original Paper
(translated from German)
Videos
Peas In A Pod - Cracking The Code episode 1
(watch from 2:25 to 8:20)
Single Trait Cross
Two Trait Cross
asapScience:
The Science of Hair Loss/Balding
(1:56)
SciShow:
Chimera Cats and Your Mom
(3:14)
SciShow:
Are Blue Eyes Endangered?
(4:01)
Penguin Prof:
Solving Genetics Problems
(13:35)
SciAm:
Genes vs. DNA vs. Chromosomes - Instant Egghead #19
(2:30)
BBC:
The Story of Inheritance
(4:26)
Heredity: Crash Course Biology #9
(10:18)
TED Ed:
How Mendel's pea plants helped us understand genetics - Hortensia Jiménez Díaz
(3:07)
Interactive
How Unique Are You?
Trait Comparison Activity
DNA Timeline
DNA From The Beginning
and
Questions
(PDF)
Learn.Genetics Heredity and Traits
Learn.Genetics Tour of the Basics
Human Traits Wheel
(PDF)
Karyotype Analysis
DNAi:
The Romanov Pedigree
Morgan Genetics Tutorial
Learner.org
Genetics Interactive
What Color Eyes will your Children Have?
Tech Museum of Innovation:
How Blue Eyed Parents Can Have Brown Eyed Children
Punnett Squares Virtual Lab
News & Articles
Smithsonian:
Royals Prove Inbreeding Is a Bad Idea
Smithsonian:
The Mystery of Human Blood Types
Smithsonian:
The Genetics of Taste
ABC News:
Fugates of Kentucky: Skin Bluer than Lake Louise
Gregor Mendel. An Austrian monk whose plant breeding experiments, begun in 1856, led to insights into the mechanisms of heredity that are the foundation of genetics today. His work was ignored in his lifetime and only rediscovered in 1900.
Content Resources
BioCoach:
Mendelian Inheritance
NCBI Bookshelf:
Mendel's Experiments
Symbols Used in Human
Pedigree
Analysis
(image)
Basic Mendelian Pedigree Patterns
(image)
CliffsNotes:
Mendelian Genetics
Scitable:
Inheritance of Traits by Offspring Follows Predictable Rules
Scitable:
Paternity Testing: Blood Types and DNA
How Hereditary Illnesses Work
Paloomar College:
An Introduction to Mendelian Genetics
MIT Open Courseware:
Inheritance Patterns
Punnett Squares
Online Monohybrid Cross Problem Set
Online Dihybrid Cross Problem Set
Online Sex-Linked Inheritance Problem Set
Online Sex-Linked Inheritance Problem Set 2
Online Lemming Punnett Squares
Monohybrid Cross Tutorial
Dihybrid Cross Tutorial
Incomplete Dominance
Tutorial
Sex-Linked Genes Tutorial
Incomplete Dominance & Codominance Tutorial
Dihybrid Cross Tutorial
Probabilities
Calculating Genetic Probabilities Tutorial
TED-Ed:
The Last Banana: A Thought Experiment in Probability - Leonardo Barichello
(4:09)
Mendelian Traits
Learn.Genetics
Explanation of PTC Tasting