Cross-Curricular Connections

“The Gene Scene” explains how traits are passed on from parents to their children. Click on the link below to complete a Virtual Lab activity about heredity, the process of passing traits from generation to generation.

http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/007877800x/student_view0/unit1/chapter5/virtual_lab.html

DNA testing reveals where your ancestors came from. Click on the link below to read about these tests and about the way that some people are often surprised about where their ancestors are from.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1079508,00.html