The Green Gene Quest: Biology Genetics Assessment Pack!

Grow your own biology experiment!

This genetics task requires year 10 science students to grow their own plants just like Mendel, in order to map genes and investigate hereditary traits.

This complete set of resources for this assignment include:

- Task sheet

- Rubric (editable)

- Assignment scaffold (editable)

- Draft checklist (editable)

- PowerPoint walkthrough (editable)

Please Note: This assignment requires your school to buy plant seeds (brassica rapa). These cost approximately $1 per 100 seeds.

Australian Curriculum Achievement Standards Addressed:

• Students explain the processes that underpin heredity and evolution.
• They analyse how the models and theories they use have developed over time and discuss the factors that prompted their review.
• Students develop questions and hypotheses and independently design and improve appropriate methods of investigation, including field work and laboratory experimentation.
• They explain how they have considered reliability, safety, fairness and ethical actions in their methods and identify where digital technologies can be used to enhance the quality of data.
• When analysing data, selecting evidence and developing and justifying conclusions, they identify alternative explanations for findings and explain any sources of uncertainty.