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Generations of Traits

In this hands-on activity students track and record the passage of colored pom-pom ï¿½traitsï¿½ through three generations of gingerbread people. Students observe that traits are passed from parents to offspring, and that siblings each receive a different combination of traits from their parents.

Keywords:: Social Sciences, Human Genetics, Inherited, Biological Science, NSDL, Families, Probability, Heredity, Conducting Investigations, Health/Medicine, General, Data Representation, Sexual or Asexual Reproduction Is Necessary for Continuity So That Genetic Information Is Transferre, Heredity and Genetics, Data Analysis, Science and Society, Data and Information, Life Science, Parents, Communicating Results, Inherited Traits, Mathematics, Anthropology, Gingerbread, Data Collection, Traits, Gathering Data, General Science, Life Sciences, Data Analysis and Probability, Genetics, Patterns of Heredity, Education, Formulating Explanations