Students learn about biomedical engineering while designing, building and testing prototype surgical tools to treat cancer. Students also learn that if cancer cells are not removed quickly enough during testing, a cancerous tumor may grow exponentially and become more challenging to eliminate. Students practice iterative design as they improve their surgical tools during the activity.

Evaluate student ability to complete and analyze a dihybrid cross using a black rhino case study.

In this 16 minute video, Paul Andersen explains simple Mendelian genetics. He begins with a brief introduction of Gregor Mendel and his laws of segregation and independent assortment. He then presents a number of simple genetics problems along with their answers.

Also included are a concept map, slideshow, worksheet and full transcript of the video.

Transcript added from YouTube subtitles. You can use this to write your own worksheet or quiz.

Paul Andersen (of BozemanScience.com) explains how natural selection is a major mechanism in evolution. Also included in this resource are links to worksheets and a full transcript of the video.

Transcript added from YouTube subtitles. You can use this to write your own worksheet or quiz.

Students will take a nature walk and use their phone to document three different patterns on inheritance (Mendelian, Codominance, and Incomplete dominance). Students will then list all possible genotype combinations for the organisms they documented on their nature walk. Modification- students can use pictures from the internet if they cannot go outdoors.