英語表現演習4 (土): Beginning understanding genetics・遺伝学の初めて理解

Hello!

How are you? Today, to go with our first reading, here is a short and funny, but informative animated video, about genetics (遺伝学). 

While you may understand the basic building blocks of genetics, this video may show it in a simple yet effective way. 

NEW - homework

Here is your homework for next week (10/6): 

1. Textbook pg. 9 exercises
2. Mendel's pea plants animated video note-taking and short explanation writing 

Preparation for video:
Watch this video and take some notes. Watch it as many times as you need. What might be the most important points the video makes? 

Now - imagine that you have to explain about genetics to someone who doesn't know much about it. Based on this video, how would you explain what Mendel's pea plants experiment was about? What kinds of things would you say? 

You can use easy English for this - in fact, the easier, the better! Have fun with this! Write out a simple, easy-English explanation about genetics - or about this experiment shown in the video - in your notebooks. Find one (1) graph or illustration - any kind of visual aid is okay - and download it into your smartphones or print it out. 

Next week in class, we will then do quick, mini-"presentations" with our written explanations and the graphs or illustrations, about basic genetics or Mendel's pea plant experiment from the video. 

I hope you enjoy this. See you next week!

Image: Screenshot of illustration by Tocharianne (PNG version), WhiteTimberwolf (SVG version) - PNG version, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26965863

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