QR Challenge: Genetics Scavenger Hunt
Teacher Notes
A. Prior to the lesson:
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
- Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
- Bring these devices into the lesson.
3. Print out the QR codes.
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
B. The lesson:
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!
C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Questions / Answers (teacher reference)
Question | Answer |
| 1. The _______________is the expression of a trait which it determined by the _______________which is a combination of alleles. | phenotype/genotype
|
2. Different versions of genes are called_____________. | alleles
| 3. A disorder, such as cystic fibrosis, is known as _____________, if the child must receive an allele for the disease from each parent in order to have the disorder. | recessive
| 4. The passing of traits from parent to offspring is ______________. | heredity
| 5. When an organism has identical alleles for a trait. | homozygous
| 6. How many chromosomes are present in a human cell? | 46
| 7. These are made up of DNA and are passed from parent to offspring. | genes
| 8. This is where genes are located | chromosomes
| 9. The probability that two heterozygous parents will have children with the recessive trait | 25%
| 10. Genotype Tt is =____________ | heterozygous or hybrid
| 11. This shows the possibilities of genotypes from a parental generation | punnett Square
| 12. DNA__________Chromosomes | genes
| 13. DNA, Genes, _____________ | chromosomes
| 14. TT=______ | pure bread or homozygous
| 15. This is when the heterozygous genotype expresses a different phenotype than the dominant phenotype. | incomplete Dominance
| 16. This is when the heterozygous genotype expresses a mixture of the two dominant genotypes. | Codominance |
Genetics Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The-_______________is-the-expression-of-a-trait-which-it-determined-by-the-_______________which-is-a-combination-of-alleles.
Question 1 (of 16)
Genetics Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Different-versions-of-genes-are-called_____________.
Question 2 (of 16)
Genetics Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A-disorder,-such-as-cystic-fibrosis,-is-known-as-_____________,-if-the-child-must-receive-an-allele-for-the-disease-from-each-parent-in-order-to-have-the-disorder.
Question 3 (of 16)
Genetics Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The-passing-of-traits-from-parent-to-offspring-is-______________.
Question 4 (of 16)
Genetics Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=When-an-organism-has-identical-alleles-for-a-trait.
Question 5 (of 16)
Genetics Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How-many-chromosomes-are-present-in-a-human-cell?
Question 6 (of 16)
Genetics Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=These-are-made-up-of-DNA-and-are-passed-from-parent-to-offspring.
Question 7 (of 16)
Genetics Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This-is-where-genes-are-located
Question 8 (of 16)
Genetics Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The-probability-that-two-heterozygous-parents-will-have-children-with-the-recessive-trait
Question 9 (of 16)
Genetics Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Genotype-Tt-is-=____________
Question 10 (of 16)
Genetics Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This-shows-the-possibilities-of-genotypes-from-a-parental-generation
Question 11 (of 16)
Genetics Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=DNA__________Chromosomes
Question 12 (of 16)
Genetics Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=DNA,-Genes,-_____________
Question 13 (of 16)
Genetics Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=TT=______
Question 14 (of 16)
Genetics Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This-is-when-the-heterozygous-genotype-expresses-a-different-phenotype-than-the-dominant-phenotype.
Question 15 (of 16)
Genetics Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This-is-when-the-heterozygous-genotype-expresses-a-mixture-of-the-two-dominant-genotypes.
Question 16 (of 16)
