Malaria: Evolution and Sexual Reproduction
by Nathan Stumpf
This lesson involves three scenarios where you calculate the frequencies of the dominant and recessive alleles. You will compare these frequencies for the 3 scenarios and discuss how they changed. Scenario 1 represents where every child survives. Scenario 2 represents students that are homozygous recessive have sickle-cell disease and die. Scenario 3 represents the homozygous recessive kids still die and homozygous dominant individuals have a 50/50 shot of contracting malaria and dying. Students will also be using math calculations with their data.
Lesson Grade Level
10th GradeLesson Plan Link/URL
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1T3zdI5g03KIz_xo0EOsxUQL_ldLXLyqe/edit?u…
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