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Summary:
Prunessa is trying to understand the inheritance pattern of colors in brightwits. Help her by breeding splotchy brightwits and answering her questions.
Recommendations:
This quest introduces codominance as an inheritance pattern. It has the players discover the pattern before actually discussing it and giving it a name. It is a good quest to do before the discussion of codominance.
Learning Objectives:
- Players will codominant traits
- Players will be able breed for a specific trait using the codominant inheritance pattern
Connecting Questions:
- What was different about this cross as compared to the previous two?
- In the game, the genotypes are denoted with capital letters – discuss how dominant and codominant traits are denoted differently
- Have students try to come up with, or discuss different examples of codominance
- What happens if you breed together two organisms that both display codominant traits? Discuss offspring rations from codominant crosses.
Additional Resources:
These resources can give additional practice with complex inheritance patterns: