1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
| 1. What does phenotype mean | Observable characteristics | 2. What does recessive mean | Expressed in the offspring only when two alleles are present | 3. What is co-dominance | An individual who is heterozygous for two codominant alleles will express the phenotypes associated with both alleles | 4. The correct name for sex cells | gametes | 5. Why do punnet squares only allow us to predict outcomes | Random fusion of gametes | 6. Name 2 conditions that must be met in order for the Hardy-Weinberg principle to be used | No mutations, mating is random, large population, no flow of alleles, no selection | 7. What is sex linkage | Alleles that are carried on the X or Y chromosome | 8. What is the formula for the Hardy Weinberg principle when referring to genotypes | P2+2pq+q2=1 | 9. What is speciation | the formation of new and distinct species in the course of evolution | 10. What type of selection would cause a reduction in standard deviation | Stabilising | 11. What is the name for the position of a gene on a chromosome | Locus | 12. What is the probability of producing square sponge offspring rather than red squirrel offspring if a single gene determines it and square sponge is recessive to red squirrel, when the parents are heterozygous and homozygous recessive | 50% |
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What is the probability of producing square sponge offspring rather than red squirrel offspring if a single gene determines it and square sponge is recessive to red squirrel, when the parents are heterozygous and homozygous recessive&choe=UTF-8
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