Problem Sets & Tutorials

Monohybrid Cross Learn about the basic principles that govern Mendelian inheritance in plants and animals. Dihybrid Cross Investigate the principles that govern inheritance of different traits in a dihybrid cross. Sex-linked Inheritance 1 Understand the principles that govern inheritance of genes on sex chromosomes. Sex-linked Inheritance 2 Explore sex-linked inheritance with a special twist--crossing over between two traits.

WWW Resources

MendelWeb is an educational resource for teachers and students interested in the origins of classical genetics, introductory data analysis, elementary plant science, and the history and literature of science.

Electronic Scholarly Publishing (ESP) This site is dedicated to the electronic publishing of scientific and other scholarly materials. Of particular interest are the history of science, genetics, computational biology, and genome research.

Virtual FlyLab allows you play the role of a research geneticist. It is an educational application where students learn the principles of genetic inheritance by mating virtual fruit flies and analyzing the resultant offspring. Important Notice! Virtual FlyLab will go offline permanently on September 1, 2000.