Description
Practice genetics vocabulary with this no prep self-checking activity that’s perfect for middle schoolers! Students need to answer 15 questions about Mendel and genetics. As they answer questions correctly, they are given options to choose the features of Rosalind and Chuck, two budgies that will appear with the characteristics your students choose. Finally, students name the baby bird and get to see its characteristics.
There are dozens of possible combinations and your kids will love playing with the options!
Budgies are small parrots and are one of the most popular pet birds. Occasional breeding by their owners has built a impressive amateur database of budgie genetics and creates a great hook for middle school science teachers to engage students in the study of genetics. Traits such as feather color, wing color, and cheek color are easily observable traits that are inherited by simple dominance.
Includes questions such as:
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Pea pods can be green or yellow. Crossing a true breeding green with a true breeding yellow results in all green. This means green is the __ trait. (dominant)
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In pea plants, 75% of the offspring of two hybrids had round seeds and 25% had wrinkled seeds. What kind of seed is dominant? (round)
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Purple flowers are dominant over white flowers. What is the phenotype of a plant with the genotype pp? (white)
Includes answer key.
Easy to use – you’ll be purchasing a PDF with a forced copy link to Google Sheets. Share with your students, allowing each of them to make a copy.
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