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Genetics Review Jeopardy Game
This game reviews genetics, with 25 questions of varying levels of difficulty. To access the game, open the PowerPoint attachment below; in full screen display, click on the slideshow icon on the right in the bottom bar. Clicking on a number in the game board will bring you to a question. When that question has been answered click on the yellow box in the lower right corner and you'll be brought back to the game board screen. Spaces for questions that have already been answered will now appear blank, just like on the TV show.
Two ways of organizing the Jeopardy game are recommended in the Teacher Notes available in the second attachment below.
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Introduction and Activities Listing
Intro and Biological Molecules
- Characteristics of Life
- Levels of Organization in Biology (NGSS)
- Introduction to Proteins and DNA (NGSS)
- Enzymes Help Us Digest Food (NGSS; hands-on)
- A Scientific Investigation – What types of food contain starch and protein? (NGSS; hands-on)
- Coronaviruses – Introduction (NGSS)
- Who Took Jerell’s iPod? -- An Organic Compound Mystery (hands-on)
- Is Yeast Alive? (hands-on)
- Macromolecules Jeopardy
Cell Structure and Function
- Cell Structure and Function – Major Concepts and Learning Activities
- Cells – How do they carry out the activities of life? (NGSS)
- Why do some plants grow in odd shapes? (NGSS)
- Introduction to Osmosis (NGSS; hands-on)
- Cell Membrane Structure and Function (NGSS; hands-on)
- Cell Vocabulary Review Game
Cellular Respiration and Photosynthesis
- Cellular Respiration and Photosynthesis - Key Concepts and Activities
- How do organisms use energy? (NGSS)
- Using Models to Understand Cellular Respiration (NGSS)
- Using Models to Understand Photosynthesis (NGSS)
- Photosynthesis, Cellular Respiration and Plant Growth (NGSS; hands-on)
- Food, Physical Activity, and Body Weight (NGSS)
- How do muscles get the energy they need for athletic activity? (NGSS)
- Alcoholic Fermentation in Yeast – A Bioengineering Design Challenge (NGSS; hands-on)
- Plant Growth Puzzle (NGSS)
- Where does a tree’s mass come from? (NGSS)
- Photosynthesis Investigation (NGSS; hands-on)
Cell Division
- Mitosis and the Cell Cycle (NGSS; hands-on)
- Mitosis and the Cell Cycle (NGSS)
- Meiosis and Fertilization – Understanding How Genes Are Inherited (NGSS; hands-on)
- Understanding How Genes are Inherited via Meiosis and Fertilization (NGSS)
- Comparing Mitosis and Meiosis
- What causes melanoma and other types of cancer? (NGSS)
- Mistakes in Meiosis – Down Syndrome or Embryo Death (NGSS)
- Mitosis, Meiosis and Fertilization Vocabulary Review Game
Genetics
- Genetics Concepts and Activities (NGSS)
- Genetics (NGSS; hands-on)
- Genetics Intro – Family Members (NGSS)
- Genetics Sickle Cell Anemia and Trait (NGSS)
- Genetics Probability – Sex Ratios (NGSS)
- Mistake in copying DNA & Dwarfism (NGSS)
- Soap Opera Genetics (NGSS)
- Were the babies switched? The Genetics of Blood Types (NGSS; hands-on)
- Dragon Genetics I (hands-on)
- Dragon Genetics II (hands-on)
- Learning about Genetic Disorders
- Genetics Vocabulary Review Game
- Genetics Jeopardy
Molecular Biology
- Molecular Biology: Major Concepts and Learning Activities (NGSS)
- DNA (NGSS; hands-on)
- DNA Function, Structure and Replication (NGSS)
- How Genes Can Cause Disease - Introduction to Transcription and Translation (NGSS; hands-on)
- How Genes Can Cause Disease - Understanding Transcription and Translation (NGSS)
- UV, Mutations and DNA Repair (NGSS; hands-on)
- What types of mutations cause more vs. less severe muscular dystrophy? (NGSS)
- Making Red Blood Cells (NGSS)
- Genetic Engineering Challenge – Preventing Vitamin A Deficiency (NGSS)
- Gene Editing with CRISPR-Cas – Potential Sickle Cell Anemia Cure (NGSS)
- Molecular Biology Vocabulary Review Game
Evolution
- Resources for Teaching and Learning about Evolution
- Evolution by Natural Selection (NGSS; hands-on)
- What is natural selection? (NGSS)
- Natural Selection and the Peppered Moth (NGSS)
- How have mutations and natural selection affected fur color in mice? (NGSS)
- How Whales Evolved (NGSS)
- How Eyes Evolved – Analyzing the Evidence (NGSS)
- How does evolution result in similarities and differences? (NGSS; hands-on)
- What is a species? (NGSS)
- Coronavirus Evolution and the COVID-19 Pandemic (NGSS)
- Evolution and Adaptations (NGSS)
Ecology
- Ecology Concepts and Learning Activities (NGSS)
- Exponential and Logistic Population Growth Models vs. Complex Reality (NGSS)
- Some Similarities between the Spread of Infectious Disease and Population Growth (NGSS; hands-on)
- Stability and Change in Biological Communities (NGSS)
- Food Webs, Energy Flow, Carbon Cycle and Trophic Pyramids (NGSS)
- Food Webs (NGSS)
- Carbon Cycles and Energy Flow through Ecosystems (NGSS)
- Trophic Pyramids (NGSS)
- Introduction to Global Warming (NGSS)
- Food and Climate Change – How can we feed a growing world population without increasing global warming? (NGSS)
- Coral Bleaching (NGSS)
- Global Warming (NGSS) (NGSS)
- Resources for Teaching about Climate Change
- The Ecology of Lyme Disease (NGSS)
Human Physiology and Health
- Negative Feedback, Homeostasis, and Positive Feedback, with Breathing Experiment (NGSS; hands-on)
- Homeostasis, Negative Feedback, and Positive Feedback (NGSS)
- How do food molecules reach our muscles? (NGSS)
- How do we Sense the Flavors of Food? (NGSS; hands-on)
- COVID-19 Vaccines (NGSS)
- Molecular and Evolutionary Biology of HIV/AIDS and Treatment (NGSS)
- Resources for Teaching Cancer Biology
- Carbohydrate Consumption, Athletics, Health – Using Science Process Skills
- Vitamins and Health – Why Experts Disagree
- Regulation of Human Heart Rate (hands-on)
- Should You Drink Sports Drinks? When? Why?
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Comments
Independent assortment question
This is great! Thanks for sharing this.
I noticed a minor issue with the question about independent assortment:
"The law of independent assortment describes the inheritance of genes on different chromosomes and the behavior of chromosomes during..."
The choices are meiosis I, meiosis II, mitosis or all of the above.
I would argue that the answer is meiosis 1 and meiosis 2. I think most people would say that independent assortment occurs among homologous pairs of chromosomes during meiosis 1. However, due to crossing over in meiosis 1, we see sister chromatids that are no longer identical. These sister chromatids can 'independently' assort during meiosis 2 depending on their alignment on the metaphase plate before cell division.
I edited this question to have the students select all the correct responses and I removed the 'all of the above' option.
Let me know if you agree or disagree!
Independent assortment comment
Your argument makes sense to me, but I have never heard independent assortment used the way you are proposing. So, I checked three genetics textbooks to see if perhaps I had missed something, and in all three cases their discussion of independent assortment referred exclusively to meiosis 1. So, I agree with your biological interpretation, but pedagogically the interpretation in the game and the textbooks probably is the best approach for most teachers. This is just one of many simplifications we use in teaching biology!
Thank you for the response.
Thank you for the response. The textbook I've used (Campbell's 1st Canadian Edition - 2014) actually does make this distinction:
"This law [of independent assortment ] applies only to genes (allele pairs) located on different chromosomes - that is, on chromosomes that are not homologous - or very far apart on the same chromosome." (p. 288, chap. 14- the next chapter discusses the chromosomal basis for genes on the same chromosome independently assorting)
I actually find this particular point to be a really great opportunity to have students apply their knowledge of crossing-over to figure out that we actually do see independent assortment during meiosis II. I ask my class, "can we have independent assortment during meiosis II?" and the answers are split between yes/no. This leads to a discussion. Without considering crossing over, we wouldn't see any effect of independent assortment in meiosis II. But with crossing over, you can! I like how this discussion forces the students to make connections between different topics.
I totally understand the need to simplify and while some may consider this a detail worth skipping, I think it extends the learning process to deeper levels (e.g. higher levels of Bloom's taxonomy). And of course even adding this detail is still simplifying the processes.
Thanks again for sharing your resources and getting us instructors thinking more about pedagogy!
And thank you!
Thank you for your thoughtful and informative response. This dialogue should provide a good basis for each teacher to decide the best approach for his/her students.
Ingrid
answers
Are there answers for this anywhere? A teacher left this for us to play but as a sub I have no idea what the correct answers are.
Answer key
Genetics
How to do it
Jeopardy Instructions
Please see the instructions given above. If you have any specific questions that come up when you try to implement these instructions, please let me know.
Ingrid Waldron
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this is the power point
this is the power point jeopordy ! (:
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