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Use these online Genetics videos to study Elementary Genetics and The Genetic Material. Use the video subtitles to improve Reading and Literacy skills ... simultaneously!

Use these Biology and Genetics videos entitled Elementary Genetics and The Genetic Material to study the function of genes and the role of dominant and recessive alleles in the expression of a genetic trait; and understand that genes can be isolated and identified.

Study the basics of genetics, from Mendel's laws on the segregation of alleles to the makeup of genetic material. Use these 3 online educational video titles to learn the story of Gregor Mendel, whose experiments with garden peas led to the foundation of contemporary genetics. Study simple Mendelian genetics and probabilities; Griffith's experiments with transformation in pneumococcus; the transformation and fractionation experiments of Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty; and the labeled bacteriophage work of Hershey and Chase.

Learning Objectives:

Review the experiments conducted by Gregor Mendel that led to the formulation of Mendel's first and second laws on the independent segregation and assortment of alleles.
Understand the function of monohybrid and dihybrid crosses, and learn how the Punnett square and multiplication and addition rules are used to determine genotype probabilities.
Discuss the function of genes; explain the role of dominant and recessive alleles in the expression of a genetic trait; and understand that genes can be isolated and identified.
Survey experiments of scientists to determine the composition of genes: Griffith's experiments with transformation in pneumococcus; the transformation and fractionation experiments of Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty; and the labeled bacteriophage work of Hershey and Chase, which led to the identification of the genetic material of all cells.