PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Mendel's Laws of Genetic Inheritance
This interactive activity, adapted from the Dolan DNA Learning Center, uses Punnett squares to illustrate Mendel's laws of inheritance and how a particular gene combination results in a 3-to-1 ratio of dominant-to-recessive traits.
eSchool Today
E School Today: Your Cool Tips on Genetics
Explains basic genetics concepts, including genes, DNA, chromosomes, sex chromosomes, how traits are inherited, genetic variation, cloning, and stem cells.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Patterns of Inheritance
Students learn about patterns of inheritance including genotype and phenotype, and then learn about the inheritance of autosomal dominant and recessive and sex-linked genetic disorders.
California State University
Csu Chico: Population Genetics
This is a group of Mendelian Genetics exercises that are designed to show the evolution of a trait within a population. The site covers instruction in calculating genotypic and allelic frequencies, determining dominance, the...
Estrella Mountain Community College
Estrella Mountian College: Introduction to Genetics
This site explains genetic beliefs before and after Mendel, and also includes a section on Mendel himself and his experiments, entitled, "The Monk and his Peas".
Other
Suny: Biology: Pedigree Analysis
Pedigree inheritance is a method of examining inherited traits. Learn how to use this method and develop conclusions through these examples.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Biology: Genetics
Through informational text, interactive activities, practice problems, and video clips, students analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations.
Estrella Mountain Community College
Online Biology Book: Introduction to Genetics
This college-level biology reference book introduces the study of heredity and genetics using diagrams and descriptive illustrations.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Mendelian Inheritance
Students use this article to identify how probability is used to predict outcomes of genetic crosses.
University of Utah
University of Utah: learn.genetics: Finding a Gene on the Chromosome Map
Play the role of a scientist and piece together the genetic puzzle to determine the gene responsible for a disorder.
Palomar Community College District
Waynes Word: Multiple Gene (Polygenic) Inheritance
Explains and gives examples of polygenic inheritance.
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.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Human Inheritance
This illustrated article describes the difference between a genetic trait and a genetic disease/disorder.
PBS
Pbs: Our Genes, Our Choices
Student teams research human behavior and explore whether traits are inherited only by genetic inheritance or if environmental factors can play a role as well.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Variations on Mendel's Laws (Overview)
Article reviews Mendel's basic model of inheritance then provides an overview of variations on Mendel's laws, including multiple alleles, incomplete dominance, co-dominance, pleiotropy, lethal alleles, sex linkage, genetic interactions,...
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: Inheritance of Hemophilia
This site explains the X-linked inheritance of Hemophilia and includes a diagram.
University of Utah
University of Utah: Learning Center: The Epigenome Learns From Its Experiences
Find out how epigenetic tags that tell genes whether to turn on or off in their lifetime, act as a cellular memory.