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Pedigrees & Inheritance Patterns

by Anonymous

When neither parent shows a trait but a child does, that trait is recessive.

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About this app

Pedigrees and Inheritance Patterns is an interactive biology learning app about reading family diagrams and identifying inheritance patterns. It guides learners through pedigree symbols, dominant and recessive traits, and X-linked inheritance using step-by-step missions and adjustable family examples.

Use cases

  • High school biology students studying heredity
  • Teachers introducing pedigree analysis
  • Learners practicing dominant and recessive trait identification
  • Students exploring X-linked inheritance and carrier status

Features

  • Explains male, female, and affected-person pedigree symbols
  • Interactive missions for finding parents, affected individuals, and generations
  • Multiple family cases for distinguishing dominant from recessive inheritance
  • Verdict buttons for classifying inheritance patterns
  • Adjustable father and mother genotypes in X-linked inheritance examples
  • Shows affected sons, daughters, and carriers in family diagrams