Brer Rabbit, Rare Rabbit: Directional Selection, Allele Frequencies and Evolution

Overview

Secondary School

Biology

ICT, Sustainability

German, English, French, Romanian, Polish, Hungarian

This simulation activity is aimed at students age 16 – 18 studying Advanced Level Biology. It is designed to help them understand core principles related to the study of allele frequency in a gene pool such as the inheritance of dominant and recessive alleles in monohybrid Mendelian crosses, the Hardy-Weinberg Principle or the evolution as a change in allele frequencies in a population over a period of time.

Authors: Philipp Gebhardt (GER), Richard Spencer (UK)

The EMBLog portal The EMBLog portal

The activity can be accessed online on the EMBLog teachers‘ portal hosted by the European Learning Laboratory for the Life Sciences at the EMBL. The program to carry out the activity has been developed using Flash-based SAP Xcelsius software.

Via http://emblog.embl.de/ells/stie/you will get to the EMBLog teachers’ portal (you have to register to access the content).

Teaching Materials