Core Idea LS3: Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits

Book Chapter | October 2016

The heredity disciplinary core idea (DCI) is about the biological mechanisms that underlie many familiar and less familiar phenomena such as genetic disorders, genetically modified foods, gene therapy, and others.…

Baby Mice

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about heredity. The probe is designed to reveal how students think organisms inherit observable traits.