University of Utah: Learning Center: Learn Genetics: Using Karyotypes to Predict

Watch this seven-part video series, and find out how people are researching their ancestry using a combination of genetic and traditional genealogy.

Find out how epigenetic tags that tell genes whether to turn on or off in their lifetime, act as a cellular memory.

Find out how tiny variations in DNA can help scientists predict humans' response to drugs or to disease risk.

Play the role of a mother rat and lick your pup to see how your nurturing behavior shapes his epigenome. This interactive helps students visualize the nature vs. nurture debate.

In this interactive simulation, discover how a mutated protein can affect normal cell division.

Even in species that look alike to us, individuals have variations in their DNA. Learn why this is important. [3:47]

Practice the steps of cloning in this interactive animation. Using what you know about somatic cell nuclear transfer, your mission is to create a genetically identical clone of Mimi, a brown female mouse. You'll answer a few questions at...

A three-day unit introduces heredity by helping students identify their own genetic traits and then leading them in an exploration of generational traits and variation. Find printable worksheets, data tables, and graphs, as well as...

Cell phones to crowdsource vibrations to warn of incoming earthquakes? Detectors to register high levels of radon-thoron isotopes? After detailing the factors that make earthquakes so difficult to predict, the narrator of a fascinating...

Find out how scientists read human chromosomes using three features: size, banding pattern, and centromere position.