Vocabulary: allele, DNA, dominant allele, gene, genotype, heredity, heterozygous,
homozygous, hybrid, inheritance, phenotype, Punnett square, recessive allele, trait
Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using
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Vocabulary: allele, DNA, dominant allele, gene, genotype, heredity, heterozygous,
homozygous, hybrid, inheritance, phenotype, Punnett square, recessive allele, trait
Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using
the Gizmo.)
1. The image shows a single litter of kittens. How are they
similar to one another? _They are the same species.
Some have black spots, while others have orange
2. How do they differ from one another? and brown spots.
3. What do you think their parents looked like?
They probably also had brown/black, orange spots on their bodies.
Gizmo Warm-up
Heredity is the passage of genetic information from parents to
offspring. The rules of inheritance were discovered in the 19th
century by Gregor Mendel. With the Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
Gizmo™, you will study how one trait, or feature, is inherited.
1. Drag two black mice into the Parent 1 and Parent 2 boxes.
Click Breed several times. What do the offspring look like?
Their offspring will have a black coat of fur covering
their bodies.
The appearance of each mouse is also called its phenotype.
2. Click Clear, and drag two white mice into the parent boxes. Click Breed several times. What
is the phenotype of the offspring now?
White
3. Do you think mouse offspring will always look like their parents? Yes
Explain: Since both parents have the same fur coat color, there is a high probability _
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Activity A:
Patterns of
inheritance
Get the Gizmo ready:
Click Clear.
Drag a black mouse and a white mouse into the
parent boxes, but don’t click Breed yet.
Question: What patterns are shown by offspring traits?
1. Predict: What do you think the offspring of a black mouse and a white mouse will look like?
Black
2. Observe: Click Breed several times. What do you see? _
The offspring are all black.
3. Observe: Drag two offspring into the Holding Cages. These mice are called hybrids
because their parents had different traits. Click Clear, and then breed the two hybrids.
What do you see now? The majority of the offsprings a
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