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Heredity Activity for Diane, Judith, Susan's DNA Inquiry Lesson

Awonderful activity with both qualitative and quantitative components.

Prentice-Hall Life Science text for Middle School, 2008, Chapter 3, pages 82-83.

The activity explores dominant and recessive traits as a way of determining the uniqueness of different combinations of inherited trarits.

The activity can be confined to the students in the class or can be extended to include the families of each student.

At the conclusion of the activity, students can post their results and compare them to the total results posted to the site.

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