Genetics Fundamentals
Ms. Parrott explains basic vocabulary and concepts related to genetics including: DNA, chromosome, gene, allele, wild type, mutant type, dominant, recessive, genotype, phenotype, homozygous, heterozygous, …
Ms. Parrott explains basic vocabulary and concepts related to genetics including: DNA, chromosome, gene, allele, wild type, mutant type, dominant, recessive, genotype, phenotype, homozygous, heterozygous, …
In this video collaboration from Khan Academy and 23andMe, you’ll learn about the basics of cells, chromosomes, and the genes contained in your DNA. Video …
Ms. Parrott teaches about the process of meiosis – the formation of haploid gametes. Video about Genetics from Youtube
In this video collaboration from Khan Academy and 23andMe, you’ll learn about the variations in human DNA called SNPs, and how they can be used …
Ms. Parrott explains Mendelian Genetics and the conclusions Mendel came to in his study of pea plants in the 1800s. Video about Genetics from Youtube
In this video collaboration from Khan Academy and 23andMe, you’ll learn how chromosomes and genes are passed down from parent to child. Video about Genetics …
Genetics 101 (Part 3 of 5): Where do your genes come from? Read More »
Ms. Parrott teaches how to set up and use Punnet Squares to determine the likelihood that offspring of certain parental crosses will produce offspring with …
In this video collaboration from Khan Academy and 23andMe, you’ll learn how your observable traits, or phenotypes, are the result of interactions between your genes …
Genetics 101 (Part 4 of 5): What are Phenotypes? Read More »
Ms. Parrott teaches about incomplete dominance as a mode of inheritance and walks through an example about four o’clock flower color. Video about Genetics from …
In this video collaboration from Khan Academy and 23andMe, you’ll find out why women don’t have a Y chromosome. Even with no Y, women can …
Ms. Parrott teaches about codominance as a mode of inheritance using the example of sickle cell anemia. Video about Genetics from Youtube
This award-winning video collaboration from Khan Academy and 23andMe introduces human prehistory starting over 200,000 years ago. Who were our first human ancestors? Where did …
Ms. Parrott teaches about the concept of heterozygote advantage using the example of sickle cell anemia. Video about Genetics from Youtube
Second in a series of videos from Khan Academy and 23andMe, this video introduces human prehistory, this video describes how our human ancestors spread throughout …
Human Prehistory 101 (Part 1 of 3): Out of (Eastern) Africa Read More »
Ms. Parrott teaches how blood type is inherited using the concepts of codominance and multiple alleles. Video about Genetics from Youtube
Third in a series of videos from Khan Academy and 23andMe that introduces human prehistory, this video describes how early humans continued to defy the …
Human Prehistory 101 (Part 2 of 3): Weathering The Storm Read More »
Ms.Parrott teaches about what an X-linked gene is and walks you through how to determine if a gene is X-linked as well as through an …
Fourth in a series of videos from Khan Academy and 23andMe that introduces human prehistory, this video describes how agriculture changed human societies and genetics …
Human Prehistory 101 (Part 3 of 3): Agriculture Rocks Our World Read More »
Ms. Parrott teaches about what pedigrees are, how they are set up, and how to analyze them. She uses steps of the scientific method to …
Ms. Parrott teaches you how to set up, fill in, and analyze two trait crosses. Video about Genetics from Youtube