INHERITANCE
Around the World with Brassicas - (80K PDF file) Explore in depth the six most important species of Brassica, and what role they each play in feeding our world's population.
Answer that question by taking a trip to your local supermarket and purchasing vegetables such as Chinese cabbage, turnips and Pak choi (celery cabbage). By comparing these with the Rapid Cycling plants (Rbr) and breeding the vegetables with each other, learn what the interesting connection is between these very different looking vegetables.
Explore what it means to be in a family. Do the seeds in one pod have the same mother and father?
What are some of the reasons for plant's biological variations? Explore these variations using your own Fast Plants data and a frequency histogram.
Why do plants have hair on various parts of their anatomy? This is a question whose answer many scientists are still unsure of. Through observing and counting the hairs on their Fast Plants, students will learn more about variation and inheritance, and perhaps raise interesting hypotheses of their own about this trait's underlying purpose.
Published as a Carolina Tips article, this activity will guide students and teachers through the art of selection, hypothesize on the mode of inheritance and measure gain from selection using a easily observable trait on Fast Plants, hairs.
Current research around the questions how are hairs on Fast Plants Inherited. What if you cross a hairless Fast Plant with a hairy Fast Plant? Will the F1 be hairy or hairless? What about the F2?
An Introduction to quantitative variation and Fast Plants. Explore the concepts of heretability, continuous variation, and response to selection with the hairs on Fast Plants.
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