1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
1. 1. What is the part of a cell where DNA is found? | The nucleus | 2. 2. Which human cells only contain 23 chromosomes? | The human sex cells | 3. 3. Which of these female cells contains only one X chromosome? skin cell / liver cell / egg cell / nerve cell | Egg cell | 4. 4. Is cloning humans legal or illegal in Europe? | Illegal | 5. 5. What are the different forms of the same gene called? | Alleles | 6. 6. Name one symptom of cyctic fibrosis | Thick mucus etc. | 7. 7. What is the name given to an allele that is hidden or covered up by another one? | Recessive | 8. 8. Are clones produced by sexual or asexual reproduction? | Asexual reproduction | 9. 9. If a person with the alleles Rr is crossed with another with the alleles RR, which of these will not be produced? RR / Rr / rr | rr | 10. 10. What is an everyday word for 'human offspring'? | Baby | 11. 11. Would a person with two X chromosomes be male or female? | Female | 12. 12. Is a person's height an example of genetic variation, environmental variation or both? | Both | 13. 13. Cystic fibrosis is a recessive gene. If two cystic fibrosis carriers (Cc) decide to have children, what is the % chance of having a child with cystic fibrosis? 25% / 50% / 75% | 25% | 14. 14. What is the biological word when a male and female sex cell join together? | Fertilisation | 15. 15. What does DNA stand for? | Deoxyribonucleic acid | 16. 16. Give another word for a physical characteristic. For example, eye colour or nose shape | Phenotype | 17. 17. Another name for unspecialised cells, which have the ability to become any other cell | Stem cells | 18. 18. What is the genetic term for two alleles which are the same? | Homozygous | 19. 19. Name a body part made of a structural protein | Bones, Ears, Tendons, Hair, Nails, Muscle. | 20. 20. What is the genetic term for two alleles which are different? | Heterozygous | 21. 21. What is the name given to controversial issues that surround life, death or societies views on them? | Ethical issues | 22. 22. If 'B' is the allele for black hair and 'b' is the allele for brown hair, what colour hair would a person with 'bb' have? | Brown | 23. 23. Which of these allele pairs would NOT cause Huntington's disease? HH / Hh / hh | hh | 24. 24. Put these in the correct order of development: Embryo / Fetus / Zygote | Zygote / Embryo / Zygote | 25. 25. What are the two main groups of proteins? | Functional and structural | 26. 26. What do genes instruct cells to make? | Proteins | 27. 27. What was the name of the world's first cloned animal? | Dolly the sheep | 28. 28. How many chromosomes does a human sperm cell contain? | 23 |
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