Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Influence of Histones on Genetic in Heritance
This passage will test your knowledge on enzymes.
Palomar Community College District
Probability of Inheritance
A great supplement to help introduce Punnett Squares. It tells how to set them up and how to use them correctly. A sample quiz is offered and feedback is given to help with understanding why an answer is correct or not.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Hemochromatosis
Hemochromatosis is an inherited genetic disease that causes the body to absorb too much iron. This website provides information about treatment, causes, inheritance, testing, symptoms, and even interviews with people who have the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Tell Me the Odds (Of Cancer)
A seven-lesson unit where students learn the concepts of refraction and interference in order to solve this engineering challenge: In 2013, actress Angelina Jolie underwent a double mastectomy, not because she had been diagnosed with...
University of Arizona
University of Arizona: Blood Types Tutorial
This site from the University of Arizona describes how blood type is passed on from parent to child. The tutorial covers the genetics of the ABO blood groups as well as Rh factor. There are even practice problems and blood type calculators!
Other
The National Fragile X Foundation
"Fragile X Syndrome is the most common, known cause of inherited mental impairment." Many aspects of the condition are explained at this very supportive site, and can be accessed through the menu down the left side of the page. The...
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: How to Crack the Code
Through a series of illustrations, learn about the physical carriers of inheritance. Discover facts about DNA, the blueprint of life, and RNA, the blueprint copy.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Biointeractive: Visualizing Gene Expression
Through a series of videos and narrated animations, learn how evolution affects gene expression in species. Find out how visualizing gene expression can help explain what a specific gene does.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: What Makes You You?
Launch an activity that will help you address the nature-versus-nurture debate in terms of your own traits.
University of Hamburg
University of Hamburg: Deviations From Mendelian Laws And: What Is the Meaning of Dominance?
Upper level discussion of several of Mendel's experiments and laws.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Polycystic Kidney Disease
There is plenty of general information about Polycystic Kidney Disease at this interactive site. You can find videos, interviews, animations, and explanations about many topics including: treatment, causes, testing, incidence, and symptoms.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Your Genes, Your Health: Marfan Syndrome
Learn all about Marfan Syndrome at this colorful, simple, interactive sight. Includes video options.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Journey Into Dna
Travel deep into the human body to see exactly where your DNA resides. From the NOVA: Cracking the Code of Life Web site.
Other
Lawrence Livermore National Lab: Probabilities of Traits
This site explains how to determine the chances of inheriting certain traits from our parents. It gives mathematical examples and exercises.
Curated OER
Baylor College of Medicine: Family Tree Genetics
Simple family tree showing how traits are passed through the family tree.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Pedigree Analysis
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A pedigree is a chart that shows the inheritance of a trait over several generations. A pedigree is commonly created for families, and it outlines the inheritance...
University of Michigan
University of Michigan Health System: Your Child: Xxx Syndrome (Trisomy X)
Fact page describes the genetic disorder Triple X Syndrome or Trisomy X. Includes explanation of the genetics involved as well as treatment of the disorder.
National Institutes of Health
National Center for Biotechnology Info: Thrombocytopenia
Technical description of inherited thrombocytopenia, including clinical features and its genetic mapping location.
Other
Genetica Lens: Morquio Syndrome
Part of a project designed to provide visual documentation of individuals with rare genetic disorders, in order to help with the diagnosis and treatment of these disorders. This page describes Morquio Syndrome and discusses the problems...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Bioinformatics
This project is a series of interrelated modules designed to introduce the student to modern biological techniques in the area of bioinformatics. Bioinformatics is the application of computer technology to the management of biological...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Polygenic Traits
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Another exception to Mendel's rules is polygenic inheritance, which occurs when a trait is controlled by more than one gene. This means that each dominant allele...
Other
Fraxa: The Fragile X Research Foundation
FRAXA is an organization started by parents in 1994 to support and encourage scientific research aimed at finding a cure for Fragile X, responsible for inherited mental impairment and autism. Access information on Fragile X Syndrome...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Cats, Dogs,and Dragons. Oh My!
This is a technology-based, hands-on Biology lesson on Heredity and Traits. Students learn about the basics of Heredity through a virtual tour and then work to create their own dragon based on the inheritance of traits.(Adapted from ASIM).
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Dna Forensics and Color Pigments
Students perform DNA forensics using food coloring to enhance their understanding of DNA fingerprinting, restriction enzymes, genotyping and DNA gel electrophoresis. They place small drops of different food coloring ("water-based paint")...