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Will My Kid Be OK? A classroom activity about genetic counseling

This is a classroom activity for Introductory General Biology students in which students assume the role of a genetic counselor. Working in groups students consider the probability of the clients' child inheriting a particular genetic trait.

Keywords:: genetics, genetic counseling, pedigree charts

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Science and Technology / Biology / Genetics

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Material Type:: Assignment
Date Added to MERLOT:: July 29, 2022
Date Modified in MERLOT:: August 27, 2023
Author:: Melissa Graham
Submitter:: Melissa Graham

Primary Audience:: College Lower Division
Technical Format:: Document (e.g. Word), Video, Website
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Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International