GS Activities Worksheets

Curriculum Activities
by GenScope Development Team

Most of the following activities use the dragon species, which is included in the GenScope 1.0 Installer. There are some activities, however, that use other species that must be downloaded separately in order for the organism files to work. If you need the Additional Species Files, you may connect from here, look for the species you want (Human, Labrador, Horse, or Simple Horse), and then download them. Be sure to put the new files in the same folder with GenScope otherwise you will get a message that GenScope can't find the file!
  1. Making Babies I:  Understanding rules of inheritance for several traits, while considering the random nature of meiosis in dragons
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  2. Making Babies II:  Understanding rules of inheritance for several traits, while considering alignment, crossover, sex linkage and lethal genes in dragons
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  3. The Horns Activities:  Collecting and analyzing data in dragons

  4. Mutations:  Understanding the connection between changes in DNA and phenotype in dragons
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  5. Fire Breathing:  Understanding a sex linked, recessive trait in dragons
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  6. Hitchhiker's Thumb:  Understanding how a trait can skip generations in humans
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  7. Exploration of the Human Species:   A computer simulation of the classic introductory high school activity in human genetics
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  8. Color Challenge:  Thinking about dragon color off-line
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  9. Bronze and Gold:  Understanding a polygenic, sex linked trait with a lethal allele in dragons
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  10. Labrador Colors:  Writing rules for a polygenic trait in Labrador Retrievers
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  11. Sickle Cell:  Understanding alleles that are incompletely dominant, by looking at the pedigree level and using meiosis in humans
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  12. Crossover:   Understanding the random nature of crossover during meiosis in dragons
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  13. Blood Type:  Exploring the relationship among three alleles in humans
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  14. Cystic Fibrosis:  Understanding the inheritance and expression of an autosomal in humans  recessive trait
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  15. Scales and Plates:  Discovering  the inheritance patterns of hidden genes through inductive reasoning in dragons
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