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Classroom Genetics with Wisconsin Fast Plants®

To Know a Plant, Grow a Plant

Plant a seed

In the mind and with the hand

Use the five senses

To engage and understand.

To investigate: observe,

Measure, analyze, and describe,

Harvest a Fast Plant seed

And make science come alive.

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Fast Plants® Relatives

Family Brassicaceae

Wisconsin Fast Plants®

• An entire life cycle in about 40 days

• Ideal for inquiry-based science investigations and for plant biology studies

• Flower 14–18 daysafter planting the seeds

Flower Structure of Brassica rapa

Pollination with Bee-Stick

Seed to Seed in 45 Days!

Ecological Relationships

• Quad

• Place wicks in quad

• Lay down paper before filling quads with soil

• Pre-wet soil

• Pack soil “medium firm”

• Fill ¾ full

Planting Wisconsin Fast Plants® (part 1)

Wicks

• Add 2–3 fertilizer pellets per cell

• Add more soil, then . . .

• Press potting mix in each cell before adding seeds

• Add 2–3 seeds per cell

• Cover lightly with potting mix

Planting Wisconsin Fast Plants® (part 2)

Mendelian Genetics with Brassica rapa

• A genetically controlled mating systemprevents self-fertilization

• Ideal for studies on the nature and inheritance of variation

• Distinctive mutant phenotypes

Readily Observable Phenotypes

(left to right) Rosette, dwarf, elongated, internode

Anthocyaninless (anl)

Yellow-green leaf (ygr1)

Monohybrid Crosses

ANL/ANLanl/anl(hairless)

Purple pigment is dominant to nonpurplepigmentation

(ANL) (anl)

P1 Generation

F1 Generation

Parent and F1 Generation

Observe parent and F1-generation petri dishes and hypothesize what the F2-generation phenotypes will be.

F2 Generation

Count the phenotypes.# of Purple _______# of Green _______

Did you hypothesize correctly?

F2 Generation

NonPurple Purple

A Tool for Inquiry in Mendelian Genetics

Observe P1- and F1-generation petri dishes and hypothesize what the F2-generation phenotypes will be.

P1 F1

Phenotype? Phenotype?

Now observe phenotypes of the F2

plates.

Rosette-Dwarf x Non-Purple Stem

A Tool for Inquiry in Mendelian Genetics

F2 Phenotypes

9:3:3:1

Normal Height Purple StemNormal Height Green StemDwarf Purple StemDwarf Green Stem

ros/ros

Rosette-Dwarf (15 days old)

• Gibberellin-deficient mutant

• Compact due to shortened internodes

• Attains normal height after application of 100 ppm gibberellicacid

• Flowers in 18 days

Phenotype Due to a Recessive Gene

Rosette-Dwarf x Non-Purple Stem

• F1 has normal height and purple pigment

• Genotype is ros/ROSanl/ANL

• Vehicle to study dihybrid genetics

Rosette-Dwarf x Non-Purple Stem

Rosette-Dwarf x Non-Purple Stem

• Mendel’s law of segregation and law of independent assortment

• Inheritance of 2 traits

• How genotypes influence phenotypes

• Scientific inquiry, including interpretation of evidence

Objectives for Application

Resources from Carolina

Wisconsin Fast Plants®

72-Hour Genetics Kit

3, 2, 1—Countdown to

Genetics

Monohybrid Cross Dihybrid Cross

Resources from Carolina

More Wisconsin Fast Plants® genetics kits:

• AP® Biology Alternative Lab 7: Genetics of Plants Kit (catalog no. 746537)

• Wisconsin Fast Plants® Dihybrid Genetics Kit (catalog no. 158772)

• Wisconsin Fast Plants® Genetics of Hairy Plants Kit (catalog no. 158785)

Resources from Carolina

Wisconsin Fast Plants® videos from Carolina:Go to Carolina.comTeacher ResourcesEducational Videos

More online resources:www.fastplants.org

Carolina Free Resources

Carolina offers many free resources to help support teachers.

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