Instructional Video3:07
TED-Ed

How Mendel's Pea Plants Helped Us Understand Genetics

7th - 9th Standards
A brief animation introduces heredity to your beginning biologists. They will meet Gregor Mendel's green and yellow peas, dominant and recessive traits, homozygous and heterozygous alleles, and Punnett squares. In this cartoon animation,...
Instructional Video16:04
Curated OER

Mendelian Genetics and Inheritance

7th - 12th
Introduce your biologists to Gregor Mendel, the man responsible for Mendelian genetics. The resource explains the experiment that made him famous and sparked interest in genetics everywhere. Also take a closer look at Huntington's...
Instructional Video6:36
Curated OER

Genetics - Introduction

7th - 12th
Explore genetics with Mr. Anderson! In this introduction, he discusses which topics he'll cover in subsequent sections. From DNA to RNA and cell cycle to mitosis and meiosis, Mr. Anderson provides a quick introduction to future videos.
Instructional Video4:58
Curated OER

Mendelian Genetics

7th - 12th
Who is Gregor Mendel? Learn about his early career, his famous pea experiment, and the laws he created. This resource is a bit dry, so choose a specific clip or create a listening guide to engage learners.
Instructional Video6:37
Curated OER

Genetics and The Structure of DNA - Part 2/2

7th - 12th
How is DNA structured? Composed of deoxyribose, phosphate, and bases, DNA seems so simple, yet it determines so much of who we are. Give your class a better understanding of their genetic makeup with this video. Part two of two.