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Your Life Science Pacing Guide for 3-Dimensional Teaching
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Decomposition by Physarum polycephalum
Observe the phenomenon of the plasmodial form of Physarum polycephalum as it streams in search of a food source. Essential question:
What role do decomposers play in an ecosystem? View »
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Easy Variation and Natural Selection Lessons with Wisconsin Fast Plants® Seed Disks
Explore a technique that makes teaching variation and natural selection lessons with Fast Plants® easier than ever. In this activity, students examine the effects an abiotic environmental change (salinity) has on an experimental plot of Fast Plants®. Includes detailed background information and instructions. View »
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Bees at School
Bradley James, co-owner of Beepods, explains the benefits of keeping bees at school. Learn about the buzz, and why bees are the perfect organism to engage students and promote hands-on learning. View »
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Living Organism Care Guide: Caenorhabditis elegans
Get care instructions for Caenorhabditis elegans, including details on housing and feeding, information about the organism, related resources, and FAQs. View »
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Introduction to Drosophila: Phenotypes
In this lab students compare phenotypes of mutant Drosophila to wild type. The activity is intended as a student’s first experience working with Drosophila. View »
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Two-Point Linkage with Drosophila
In this lab students explore the genetic consequences of gene linkage using an F1 cross of Drosophila. View »
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Gene Interaction with Drosophila
How do genes interact in the inheritance of traits? Find out in this intriguing study of the inheritance of eye color in Drosophila. View »
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Introductory Genetics with Drosophila
Use this LabSheet with a variety of our Drosophila cultures and sets for introductory labs covering monohybrid, dihybrid, and sex-linked crosses. View »
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Genetics with Drosophila F1 Crosses
Drosophila genetics labs without the the need to select virgin female flies for crosses. We ship F1 flies so your students need only to set them up in fresh vials to produce an F2. View »
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Three-Point Linkage with Drosophila
In this lab students investigate the effects of gene linkage and crossing-over on the inheritance of three traits of Drosophila. They use the data they collect to construct a linkage map of the gene loci. View »
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Genetics with Drosophila F1 Crosses: Sex-Linkage
Drosophila genetics labs without the the need to select virgin female flies for crosses. We ship F1 flies so your students need only to set them up in fresh vials to produce an F2. View »
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