Heredity

Year of Production: 2012

Running Time: 10:17 min

Created by Crash Course Biology

Hank and his brother John discuss heredity via the gross example of relative ear wax moistness.

How Mendel's pea plants helped us understand genetics

by Hortensia Jiménez Díaz

Published 2013

Running time: 3:06 min

Each father and mother pass down traits to their children, who inherit combinations of their dominant or recessive alleles. But how do we know so much about genetics today? Hortensia Jiménez Díaz explains how studying pea plants revealed why you may have blue eyes.

Monohybrids and the Punnett Square Guinea Pigs

Year of production: 2014

Running Time: 6:27 min

Created by the Amoeba Sisters

Learn how to use a Punnett square to solve a Mendelian monohybrid cross with one of the Amoeba Sister's favorite classroom pets: hairless guinea pigs. Yes, they are as awesome as they sound.

Dihybrid Crosses and a Cat Called "Moo"

Year of production: 2015

Running Time: 8:31 min

Created by the Amoeba Sisters

Learn the steps to completing a dihybrid cross! This video will show how to set up everyone's favorite 16 square Punnett square. This video uses vocabulary that was previously defined in the Amoeba Sisters Monohybrid Crosses video.

Punnett Squares and Sex-Linked Traits

Year of production: 2015

Running Time: 6:14 min

Created by the Amoeba sisters

Explore inheritance when carried on the X chromosome with the Amoeba Sisters!