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. body cell that makes up all tissues & organs | somatic cell | 2. sex cell like egg and sperm2 | gamete2 | 3. chromosomes that have the same length, appearance & copy of genes3 | homologous chromosomes3 | 4. chromosomes 1-22 with the same genes for characteristics not related to sexual development4 | autosomes4 | 5. chromosomes that directly control the development of sexual characteristics, X & Y5 | sex chromosomes5 | 6. a cell or organism that has 2 copies of each chromosome, one from each parent-46 in humans6 | diploid6 | 7. a cell that has only one copy of each chromosome7 | haploid7 | 8. form of nuclear division that dives a diploid cell into haploid cells8 | meiosis8 | 9. cell with little more than DNA in females that is eventually broken down and absorbed - doesn't become an ovum9 | polar body9 | 10. law that states alleles are separated during gamete formation10 | law of segregation | 11. law that states 2 or more characteristics are inherited independently from one another11 | law of independent assortment11 | 12. process by which diploid cells undergo cell division to form mature haploid gametes12 | gametogenesis12 | 13. distinguishing quality or characteristic inherited from your parent13 | trait13 | 14. Organism that has only dominant OR recessive alleles (P generation)14 | purebred14 | 15. a piece of DNA that provides a set of instructions to a cell that make a certain protein15 | gene15 | 16. one of 2 or more alternative forms of a gene found at the same place on a chromosome16 | allele16 | 17. an individual inherits the same allele for a particular gene from both parents (TT or tt)17 | homozygous17 | 18. an individual inherits 2 different alleles for a particular gene that appear at the same locus of sister chromatids18 | heterozygous18 | 19. collection of all of an organism's genetic information - the genes19 | genotype19 | 20. the physical characteristic of an individual20 | phenotype20 | 21. exchange of chromosome segments between homologous c'somes during prophase I of meiosis I - creates a recombinant21 | crossing over21 | 22. cross between organisms that involves only one pair of contrasting traits22 | monohybrid22 | 23. cross between an organism with an unknown genotype and an organism with a homozygous recessive genotype to identify the unknown genotype23 | testcross23 |
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