Sample Exercises

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• Fruit Fly Exercises
• Yeast Exercise
• Mendel's Peas Exercises
• Cow Exercise

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Fruit Fly Exercises

All fruit fly exercises:

Fruit Fly Tutorial 1

Fruit Fly Exercise 1 - Level 1

Fruit Fly Exercise 1 - Level 2

Fruit Fly Exercise 2 - Level 1

Fruit Fly Exercise 2 - Level 2

Fruit Fly Exercise 3

Fruit Fly Exercise 4

Fruit Fly Exercise 5

Fruit Fly Exercise 6

Fruit Fly Exercise 7 - Level 1

Fruit Fly Exercise 7 - Level 2

Fruit Fly Exercise 8

Fruit Fly Exercise 9

The fruit fly exercises are grouped by either genetics concept or genetics tools:

• Genetics Concepts
• Genetics Tools

The following exercises are grouped by genetics concept:

Tutorial/Guided Exercise

Fruit Fly Tutorial 1

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Genotype/Phenotype Relationship

Fruit Fly Exercise 1 - Level 1

Fruit Fly Exercise 1 - Level 2

Fruit Fly Exercise 3

Fruit Fly Exercise 5

Fruit Fly Exercise 7 - Level 1

Fruit Fly Exercise 7 - Level 2

Fruit Fly Exercise 8

Fruit Fly Exercise 9

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Dominant vs. Recessive Phenotypes

Fruit Fly Exercise 1 - Level 1

Fruit Fly Exercise 1 - Level 2

Fruit Fly Exercise 2 - Level 1

Fruit Fly Exercise 2 - Level 2

Fruit Fly Exercise 3

Fruit Fly Exercise 4

Fruit Fly Exercise 5

Fruit Fly Exercise 7 - Level 1

Fruit Fly Exercise 7 - Level 2

Fruit Fly Exercise 8

Fruit Fly Exercise 9

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Modes of Inheritance

Fruit Fly Exercise 2 - Level 1

Fruit Fly Exercise 2 - Level 2

Fruit Fly Exercise 3

Fruit Fly Exercise 4

Fruit Fly Exercise 8

Fruit Fly Exercise 9

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Complementation

Fruit Fly Exercise 2 - Level 1

Fruit Fly Exercise 2 - Level 2

Fruit Fly Exercise 4

Fruit Fly Exercise 6

Fruit Fly Exercise 7 - Level 1

Fruit Fly Exercise 7 - Level 2

Fruit Fly Exercise 9

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Linkage

Fruit Fly Exercise 2 - Level 2

Fruit Fly Exercise 5

Fruit Fly Exercise 7 - Level 1

Fruit Fly Exercise 7 - Level 2

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Epistasis

Fruit Fly Exercise 6

Fruit Fly Exercise 7 - Level 2

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The following exercises are grouped by genetics tools:

Chi-Square Test

Fruit Fly Exercise 1 - Level 2

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Punnett Squares

Fruit Fly Exercise 1 - Level1

Fruit Fly Exercise 1 - Level 2

Fruit Fly Exercise 8

Fruit Fly Exercise 9

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Yeast Exercise

The yeast exercise addresses the following genetics concepts:

Dominant vs. recessive phenotypes, complementation

Yeast Exercise 1

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Mendel's Peas Exercises

All peas exercises:

Mendel's Peas Guided Exercise

Worksheet: Meiosis and Mendel’s Law of Segregation

Mendel's Peas Exercise 1 - Part 1

Mendel's Peas Exercise 1 - Part 2

Mendel's Peas Exercise 1 - Part 3

Mendel's Peas Exercise 2

Mendel's Peas Exercise 3

Mendel's Peas Exercise 4 - Part 1

Mendel's Peas Exercise 4 - Part 2

The peas exercises are grouped by either genetics concept or genetics tools:

• Genetics Concepts
• Genetics Tools
  

The following exercises are grouped by genetics concept:

Tutorial/Guided Exercises

Mendel's Peas Guided Exercise

Worksheet: Meiosis and Mendel’s Law of Segregation

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Genotype/Phenotype Relationship

Mendel's Peas Exercise 1 - Part 1

Mendel's Peas Exercise 1 - Part 2

Mendel's Peas Exercise 1 - Part 3

Mendel's Peas Exercise 4 - Part 1

Mendel's Peas Exercise 4 - Part 2

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True-Breeding Organisms

Mendel's Peas Exercise 1 - Part 1

Mendel's Peas Exercise 1 - Part 2

Mendel's Peas Exercise 1 - Part 3

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Dominant vs. Recessive Phenotypes

Mendel's Peas Exercise 1 - Part 2

Mendel's Peas Exercise 2

Mendel's Peas Exercise 3

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Modes of Inheritance

Mendel's Peas Exercise 2

Mendel's Peas Exercise 3

Mendel's Peas Exercise 4 - Part 1

Mendel's Peas Exercise 4 - Part 2

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Experimental Variability

Mendel's Peas Exercise 2

Mendel's Peas Exercise 3

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The following exercises are grouped by genetics tools:

Punnett Squares

Mendel's Peas Exercise 1 - Part 2 (one-gene)

Mendel's Peas Exercise 2 (one-gene)

Mendel's Peas Exercise 3 (one- & two-gene)

Mendel's Peas Exercise 4 - Part 1 (one-gene)

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Chi-Square Test

Mendel's Peas Exercise 2

Mendel's Peas Exercise 3

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Cow Exercise

The cow exercise addresses the following genetics concepts:

Genotype/phenotype relationship, dominant vs. recessive phenotypes, andmodes of inheritance

Cow Exercise 1

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