Special Episode: Evolution and Genetics
The Science of Everything Podcast
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Teaching Genetics at a High School Level?
The natural focus of trying to teach teenagers about genetics is to get the punnet square and understand how that works. But I think very rapidly we need to move on to much more complex traits and talk about where does variation come from? And that's drawing on complicated pathways from variation in alleles to variation in phenotypes, but also much, much more emphasis on the role of environmental variation interacting with genetic variation.
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