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Family Matters
A brown panganog has given birth to twins: one yellow and one brown. What is it that makes offspring look like their parents, and why aren't all siblings identical to one another? Join Cherie as she dives deeper into genetic inheritance.
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Feeding the Population
Councilwoman Nasim has a conundrum on her hands: a settlement near Espeth has undergone a food shortage! Help Botanist Zed figure out how to breed his tuffet plants so that they can be used to ensure that Espeth never undergoes a food shortage.
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In Your Blood
Arthur joined the track team recently, but had to quit abruptly due to sudden pains in his joints. He wants to figure out what might be causing these pains and finds out that he is a carrier for sickle cell, which runs in his biological family. This storyline addresses the reasons why some diseases seem to affect certain races or ethnicities more than others.
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Sandbox: Drakon Breeding
Students help increase a species' biodiversity through breeding.
The drakon population has been suffering and needs revival.
Tyto Academy students therefore help breed more biodiversity into the drakons genetic pool. After breeding, they are released into the wild to improve their survival rates.
Over 10,000,000,000,000,000 possible phenotypes
Especially with variable expressivity, the possibilities are nearly endless!
The drakons have many, complex genotypes and phenotypes. We start with simple dominant and recessive alleles, then as they level up unlocks so much more: mutations, environmentally impacted genes, polygenetic inheritance, incomplete and co-dominance, and more!
Experiment with species reproduction
Drakons have asexual and sexual capabilities; track with a pedigree system.
Drakons can reproduce sexually or asexually so that students can experiment and understand the outcomes of the different types of reproduction. A pedigree system helps students keep track of reproduction lines over time.
Suggested activities teachers can use
Use our set of suggested activities to help ensure students achieve learning outcomes.
Start with simple activities like the one at right, "Create This Drakon," where players will be asked to create a drakon (one of the required genotypes of recessive) based on breeding from their collection. This then builds up to explore types of reproduction, creating identical drakons, setting their own breeding goals, and an activity to explore probability.
NGSS Standards
Overview
Here’s a quick overview of how the Modules available in Tyto Online map to the Next Generation Science Standards.
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