Open Oregon Educational Resources
General Biology II: Survey of Molecular Life and Genetics (Mt. Hood Community College Biology 102)
What could be more real life than a biology course? Mt. Hood Community College offers a complete biology textbook with an emphasis on genetics. Topics range from DNA replication to biotechnology and inheritance patterns.
Utah Education Network (UEN)
Utah Open Textbook: 5th Grade Science
How do Earth's changes affect humans? Pupils learn about physical and chemical changes on Earth and how they lead to erosion, earthquakes, and volcanoes. Using the text, they also explore the concepts of electricity and magnetism by...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Inheritance of Mitochondrial and Chloroplast Dna
Find out about mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA, and why its inheritance does not follow Mendelian patterns.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 3.14 Non Mendelian Inheritance
Learn about some examples of inheritance that do not follow Mendelian inheritance rules.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance
Learn about Thomas Hunt Morgan's experiments with the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) as a model system.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 3.13 Sex Linked Inheritance
Learn about the traits that are linked to genes on the sex chromosomes.
National Institutes of Health
National Center for Biotechnology Information: Pedigree Analysis
This ebook discusses the topic of human pedigree analysis, a type of genetic science used to determine inherited characteristics.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: X Linked Inheritance
Find out about the chromosomal basis of sex determination, X and Y chromosomes, and X-linkage.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Polygenic Inheritance and Environmental Effects
Learn about traits that are controlled by multiple genes and/or influenced by the environment. Understand penetrance and expressivity.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 3.15 Polygenic Traits
Learn how in polygenic inheritance, a trait is controlled by more than one gene.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 3.3 Punnett Squares
See how a Punnett square is a special tool used to predict the offspring from a cross, or mating between two parents.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Interesting Aspects of Human Genetics
Provides an overview of the field of human genetics, how it began with Mendel's work, some basic genetic principles, how genetic disorders are transmitted, and how physical characteristics are inherited.
Biology Pages
Kimball's Biology Pages: Phenylketonuria (Pku)
Read about phenylketonuria and the tests used to diagnose it in those who might have inherited this recessive trait.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
This is the full text of the English novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; this classic tale tells of an orphan, Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith's apprentice and then learns...
Talk Origins Archive
The Origin of Species, Chapter 14
The entire text of Charles Darwin's book, The Origin of Species is available on this site. This link is specifically for the chapter that discusses embryology as evidence for evolution.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 13.11 Molecular Genetics Overview
Learn genetics and inheritance works on a molecular level.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 4.3 Natural Selection
Explore the theory of evolution by means of natural selection.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Cap'n Dan's Daughter by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Read the full text of the novel "Cap'n Dan's Daughter" by Joseph Crosby Lincoln about a retired sea captain and his wife and daughter who unexpectantly inherit some money.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Cast Upon the Breakers by Horatio Alger
Read the full text of the novel "Cast Upon the Breakers" by Horatio Alger. Follow the story of a educated young boy who loses his inheritance when a guardian squanders it and has to make his own way.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Uneasy Money by p.g. Wodehouse
Read the full text of the novel "Uneasy Money" by P.G. Wodehouse about a hard-up man who inherited a million pounds from someone he once helped at golf.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Adventures of Sally by p.g. Wodehouse
Read the full text of "The Adventures of Sally" by P.G. Wodehouse about a young woman who inherits a fortune at the age of 21.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read the full text of the novel "The Beautiful and the Damned" by F. Scott Fitgerald about a young couple in New York who choose not to work and spend their time socializing while waiting for an inheritance from a wealthy family member.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Big Town by Ring Lardner
Read the full text of the humorous novel "The Big Town" by Ring Lardner about a small town couple who inherit a fortune and move to New York.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Oh, Money! Money! By Eleanor H. Porter
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is Oh, Money! Money! This book was written for an adult audience in the early 1900s by Eleanor H. Porter, the author of the "Glad Books" children's series.
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