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Inheritance Introducing Genetics Dr Gail Davies London IDEAS Education Similarities and Differences • Genetics is about similarities and differences • Look at your neighbour what do they have the same as you and what is different? • Think about how your family look. – Are you more like them than your neighbour? Why? DNA and Genes • DNA – Deoxyribonucleic Acid – Instructions – Language • Genes – Specific instructions – Words Knitting Patterns Lego Hand clasping is your left or right thumb on top? Geneticons • • • • Alien population game Create Geneticons Have babies Migrate Creating a Set of Geneticons • Characteristics – – – – – Body shape How they move Eyes Nose colour Male or female • Each characteristic has 6 possible options • Roll a die to see which gene your Geneticon has inherited • Make a minimum of 4 Geneticons each Geneticon Dating Agency • Love is in the air – Each Geneticon has found a partner – It is time to have babies • Flip a coin to see if the baby inherits Mum or Dad’s gene – Heads it gets Mum’s gene – Tails it gets Dad’s gene Genesville Mayor Announces Baby Competition Calling all proud parents Do you have the cutest baby? Do you have the ugliest baby? Get your entry forms and enter now Genesville Baby Competition Entry Form Ugly Baby Cute Baby Please copy your Geneticon baby entry here Please copy your Geneticon baby entry here Name of Baby Name of Baby Genesville Overcrowded • Time to move on • Which region are your Geneticons going to? Did Your Geneticons Survive? • How well suited were your Geneticons to their new surroundings? – Give yourself 5 points for every Geneticon that survived – Give yourself 2 points for every advantageous feature your Geneticon has – Remember a dead Geneticon can’t have any points • What do you think would happen if your surviving Geneticons had babies?