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Web Quest Guide:
- .MUST DO - Go to the Gene Machine site, after reading the introductory page select the "Enough Begin!" link. Answer each of the questions about yourself and your mother and father. If you do not have the date for both of your parents fill in as much as you can.
- When you finish click on the "Show Me My Genes" link and print out the "Gene Machine Output" page and attach it to your worksheet. (easy)
- Explain how cloning works and what are some of the possible uses of cloning.
- Answer one of the blue bulleted questions in each section (2 questions total). Be sure to write the complete question and answer it fully.
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If the page does not load, just Google "How Stuff Works Cloning"
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- Choose 3 of the following:
- On your worksheet, list the name of the site. List 2 careers on your worksheet and write a few sentences about each one and explain why you might be interested in doing that as a profession after you graduate.
- On your worksheet, list the name of the site. What did you discover about how to breed black, red-eyed mice? What happens if you only breed white, red-eyed mice? Are red-eyed genes dominant, co-dominant, or recessive? How can you tell?
- On your worksheet, list the name of the site. List the recessive characteristics of the peas in the meiosis tutorial. (Hold your cursor over the image of the recessive peas.) How many times did you have to practice to get 25 recessive peas in the activity section?
- On your worksheet list the name of the site. Explain the steps you took to create a clone of a mouse and explain about the first time this experiment took place.
- On your worksheet, list the name of the site. Write down five different species and their number of chromosomes. What did you find out that you didn't know before?
- On your worksheet, list the name of this site and which movies or activities you completed. For each movie, write down 3 or 4 things you learned.
- On your worksheet, list the name of this site. Did you choose the correct culprit? Describe some of the things you learned about how to analyze DNA from doing the lab. List at least 3 different things.
- On your worksheet, list the name of this site. Do you think the characteristics listed from your DNA were correct? Why or why not? This requires more extensive writing. In one or more paragraphs, explain whether you think that parents should be able to choose the genes of their baby as long as they're willing to pay for it. Why or why not, and what changes could come about in the world if this could actually happen?
- On your worksheet, list the name of the site and some facts about 4 different chromosomes. (The main page lists the number of bases for each chromosome.) Make sure you put down the number (or letter) of the chromosome you're describing.
- On your worksheet, list the name of the site. Explain what genetic disorders are and what was the correct number of mutated cells on the Slooze Worm activity? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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- If you are finished early, explore some of the other sites!