Agricultural Literacy Curriculum Matrix
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How Mendel's Pea Plants Helped Us Understand Genetics
This three-minute video does a great job of quickly explaining several key concepts. Cleverly animated peas illustrate the difference between dominant and recessive traits and how these traits can be diagrammed using Punnett squares. The difference between genotype and phenotype is also covered, and the importance of Mendel's discoveries is nicely put into a modern-day context.
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Author
Hortensia Jiménez Díaz
Organization
TED-Ed
Lessons Associated with this Resource
- Peas in a Pod
- Inherited Traits in the Living Corn Necklace (Grades 6-8)
- Roll of the Genes
- Design 'Y'er Genes
- A Recipe for Genetics: Selective Breeding and Bioengineering (Grades 6-8)
- Applying Heredity Concepts
- Apple Genetics: A Tasty Phenomena
- A Recipe for Genetics: Selective Breeding and Bioengineering (Grades 9-12)