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. Portions of DNA that determine traits | Genes | 2. Specific characteristics that vary from one individual to another | Traits | 3. The passing of traits to offspring | Heredity | 4. The different forms of a gene | Alleles | 5. Having the same structure features and pattern of genes | Homologous Chromosomes | 6. Cell division that produces four new haploid cells called gametes | Meiosis | 7. A specific band located on the chromosomes | LociWhen genes at the same loci have different alleles for the same characteristic | 8. Scientific name for sperm and egg | Gametes | 9. Having half the number of chromosomes (23) as the parent cell | Haploid cells | 10. When homologous chromosomes cross over during replication and swap sections of DNA | Crossing Over | 11. When homologous chromosomes separate independently and randomly passed on to gametes | The Law of Independent Assortment | 12. The combination of alleles (ex: RR, Rr, BB, etc) | Genotype | 13. The physical expression on an organism | Phenotype | 14. Having the same allele at the same locus on both members of a pair of homologous chromosomes | Purebred | 15. The offspring of genetically dissimilar parents | Hybrid | 16. An allele that is expressed in an organism's phenotype | Dominant gene | 17. An allele that is present in the genotype, but not expressed in an organism | Recessive gene | 18. Having one dominant and one recessive allele (ex: Tt, Bb, Gg, etc) | Heterozygous | 19. Having the same alleles (ex: RR, tt, rr, BB, etc.) | Homozygous | 20. Having two of the same dominant alleles | Homozygous dominant | 21. Having two of the same recessive alleles | Homozygous recessive | 22. A model used to predict the probability of an offspring's traits | Punnett square | 23. This process occurs when the sperm penetrates the egg | Fertilization | 24. The name of the cell once fertilization occurs | Zygote | 25. The alleles that determine a male offspring | XY | 26. The alleles that determine a female offspring | XX |
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