This experiment allows a ‘breeding’ experiment to be carried out in a single lesson. It is infinitely adaptable - you can give the parents whatever characteristics you like, and manipulate them to give classic ratios of phenotypes in the offspring, show mono and dihybrid inheritance, sex linkage, codominance and the variation produced by the whole genome. A good activity to do near the holidays in SBI3U genetics unit.

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