QR Challenge: Genetics Quiz

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

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.

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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!

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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.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. What is the name chromosome you receive from your father?	'y'
2. What is a pedigree chart used for?	to describe phenotypes
3. What is the human sex cell called?	gametes
4. How do humans reproduce?	sexually
5. What are two types of asexual reproduction?	binary fission, fragmentation, and budding
6. What is happening when pollen from one plant is put into another?	cross pollination
7. What is a punnet square used for?	predict an outcome of a particular cross or breeding experiment
8. When two identical alleles for a trait are in an organism, the organism is said to be ____________?	homozygous
9. The passing of physical characteristics from parent to offspring is __________.	heredity
10. What is having neither a dominant or recessive trait called?	Codominance
11. When an organism has two different alleles for a trait they are said to be ________________.	heterozygous
12. When the Dominant Allele is Green Pod Color and the Recessive Allele is a Pinched Pod Shape is it possible for an organism to have both of the traits?	yes
13. In pea plants, the dominant trait for Seed Color is Yellow. What is the Recessive trait?	green, anything but yellow
14. If a pea plant has a gray seed coat color, is that the pea plants phenotype of genotype?	phenotype
15. When a capital letter is used, what kind of allele is being represented?	dominant allele
16. Mendel wondered why different pea plants had _________ ____________?	different
17. A Punnett Square shows all the possible combinations of what?	alleles
18. The stage of the cell cycle during which the cells nucleus divides into two new nuclei and one copy of the DNA is distributed into each daughter cell is called what?	mitosis
19. A rod-shaped cellular structure made of condensed chromatin; contains DNA, which carries the genetic information that controls inherited characteristics such as eye color and blood type is called what?	chromosome
20. A segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait	gene
21. The process of selecting a few organisms with desired traits to serve as parents of the next generation is called what?	selective breeding

 

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