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Heredity and inherited traits.
Study inherited traits in your own family!
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Heredity and inherited traits.
Using your own family as a genetics dataset creates deeply personal engagement with inheritance concepts. Students who study their own traits in a Punnett framework understand the probabilistic nature of genetics — that they were not inevitable but one of many possible outcomes.
1. List 5 traits: earlobe type tongue roll eye color. 2. Survey family. 3. Create family trait chart. 4. Identify dominant.