1. Home
  2. Material Detail: Pick the Risk: The Polygenic Pedigree Challenge

Material Detail

Pick the Risk: The Polygenic Pedigree Challenge

Pick the Risk: The Polygenic Pedigree Challenge

In this activity, learners are challenged to track and record the passage of colored pom poms (representing genes) through generations of a family using a pedigree. Learners discover that common chronic diseases (such as heart disease) run in families and are caused by the combined action of multiple genes.

Keywords:
Human Genetics, Biological Science, NSDL, Probability, Heart Disease, Conducting Investigations, Medicine, Health/Medicine, Pedigree, General, Health and Nutrition, Data Representation, Heredity and Genetics, Data Analysis, Science and Society, Life Science, Chronic Diseases, Polygenic, Communicating Results, Mathematics, Data Collection, Gathering Data, Life Sciences, DNA Structure and Function, Human Body, Data Analysis and Probability, Inherited Trait, Genetics, Patterns of Heredity, Education, Formulating Explanations
Disciplines:
Go to Material 
Bookmark / Add to Course ePortfolio
Create a Learning Exercise
Add Accessibility Information
Rate
Add a Comment

Quality

More about this material

Material Type:
Simulation
Date Added to MERLOT:
July 27, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:
March 3, 2019
Authors:

Submitter:
Barbra Bied Sperling
Hispanic Serving Institution
Primary Audience:
Middle School, High School
Technical Format:
Website
Mobile Compatibility:
Not specified at this time
Language:
English
Cost Involved:
No
Source Code Available:
No
Accessibility Information Available:
No
Creative Commons:
Unknown

Browse...

Disciplines with similar materials as Pick the Risk: The Polygenic Pedigree Challenge
People who viewed this also viewed
Other materials like Pick the Risk: The Polygenic Pedigree Challenge

Comments

Log in to participate in the discussions or sign up if you are not already a MERLOT member.