Gene Pool and Natural Selection—Super Value Kit

Name: Gene Pool and Natural Selection—Super Value Kit
Brand: By: Jeannette Miller, Schalmont High School, Schenectady, NY
SKU: FB1568
Price: 49.95 USD
Availability: InStock

By: Jeannette Miller, Schalmont High School, Schenectady, NY

Gene Pool and Natural Selection Activity Kit for Biology and Life Science

Item #: FB1568

Price: $49.95

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With the Gene Pool and Natural Selection Activity Kit for biology and life science, simulate a gene pool using different colored pop beads to represent alleles for a genetic trait in a population.

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Students will simulate a gene pool using different colored pop beads to represent alleles for a genetic trait in a population. Comparisons will then be made between the resulting frequency of alleles in the population with and without selection pressure. The change in the makeup of the gene pool with selection pressure will become obvious as students collect their personal data. The Hardy-Weinberg principle can be utilized to calculate the shifts in the gene pool for the population over time. The hands-on manipulation of this laboratory will provide students with a concrete memory of the concepts of paired alleles, random chance and selection pressure. The kit includes more than 1,500 pop beads and detailed teaching strategies.

Super Value Kit is complete for 30 students working in pairs. All materials are reusable.

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Materials Included in Kit:
Cup, polystyrene, 8 oz, 15
Pop beads, red, pkg 900
Pop beads, white, pkg 600

Correlation to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)^†

Science & Engineering Practices

Analyzing and interpreting data
Developing and using models

Disciplinary Core Ideas

MS-LS1.B: Growth and Development of Organisms
MS-LS3.A: Inheritance of Traits
HS-LS3.B: Variation of Traits

Crosscutting Concepts

Scale, proportion, and quantity
Cause and effect

Performance Expectations

MS-LS3-2. Develop and use a model to describe why asexual reproduction results in offspring with identical genetic information and sexual reproduction results in offspring with genetic variation.
HS-LS3-3. Apply concepts of statistics and probability to explain the variation and distribution of expressed traits in a population.