Instructional Video6:35
Bozeman Science

Genetics Preview

12th - Higher Ed
Paul Andersen previews the information in the genetics unit. He defines the central dogma of biology and explains how DNA creates an RNA transcript that is used to translate proteins. He differentiates between mitosis and meiosis. He...
Instructional Video3:07
TED-Ed

How Mendel's Pea Plants Helped Us Understand Genetics

7th - 9th Standards
A brief animation introduces heredity to your beginning biologists. They will meet Gregor Mendel's green and yellow peas, dominant and recessive traits, homozygous and heterozygous alleles, and Punnett squares. In this cartoon animation,...
Instructional Video10:55
SciShow

Great Minds: Gregor Mendel

9th - 12th
How would you feel if you made a huge scientific discovery, published it everywhere, and shared it with every scientist, only to have it ignored for 35 years because no one understood your genius? Unfortunately, Gregor Mendel died before...
Instructional Video12:34
Crash Course

Genetics and the Modern Synthesis: Crash Course History of Science #35

9th - 12th Standards
Can competing biological theories both be correct? Explore the two theories many scientists believed were opposing in a Crash Course History of Science video. The narrator covers both Darwin's and Mendel's genetics theories, the...
Instructional Video5:34
Teacher's Pet

Non-Mendelian Genetics

9th - 12th Standards
Any pattern of inheritance that does not follow Mendel's laws uses non-Mendelian inheritance. The video explains this type of genetics with many guided practice problems. It covers incomplete dominance, codominance, and sex-linked traits.
Instructional Video4:58
Curated OER

Mendelian Genetics

7th - 12th
Who is Gregor Mendel? Learn about his early career, his famous pea experiment, and the laws he created. This resource is a bit dry, so choose a specific clip or create a listening guide to engage learners.
Instructional Video4:12
FuseSchool

What Are Mendel and Genetic Crosses?

9th - 12th Standards
Darwin and others hypothesized evolution, but they never explained how it worked genetically. The video introduces Mendel and his hypothesis, which scientists have now proved. It explains how he created the hypothesis and what...
Instructional Video4:22
FuseSchool

Punnett Squares

9th - 12th Standards
Mendel discovered that you inherit each gene from either parent, but not both. The video, part of a playlist on Genetics from Fuse School, explains how this applies to solving Punnett squares. It walks through the process of solving and...
Instructional Video10:54
1
1
Crash Course

Animal Behavior

9th - 12th Standards
While a herd of cows are eating, they tend to all face the same direction. Viewers explore the world of animal behavior, looking at both morphology and physiology, with a video that focuses on the evolutionary history of learned...