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Genetics becomes clearer when you can interact with it.

Guided lessons, virtual experiments, simulations, and analysis tools designed to help students move from foundational notation to modern genetic mapping.

🪰 Classical genetics📊 Data analysis🌾 Quantitative genetics
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A learning path, not just a toolbox

Students can follow this route from basic genetic language to increasingly complex analysis.

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Learning library

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Search by topic or use the categories. Each card identifies what kind of experience it offers.

Guided lesson

Quantitative Genetics: Wheat Stem Solidness

Explore variation, ANOVA, heritability, and response to selection through a wheat-breeding story.

30–40 min
Guided explainer

Ancestry Decoder

A simple interactive guide to what genomic ancestry estimates mean, how reference populations shape them, and what these tests cannot tell you.

10–15 min
Practice

Drosophila Notation Trainer

Practise wild-type, mutant, dominant, autosomal, and sex-linked notation.

10–20 min
Trainer

Punnett Square Trainer

Build gametes, complete crosses, and interpret expected genotype and phenotype ratios.

15–25 min
Guided tutorial

Fork-Line Probability Tutorial

Break complex multi-gene crosses into simple probability branches, multiply along paths, and combine outcomes without building a giant Punnett square.

15–25 min
Practice

Practice Genetics Tool

Strengthen foundational genetics reasoning before moving into advanced analyses.

Self-paced
Simulation

Drosophila Eye Pigment Pathway Simulator

Explore pigment pathways, TLC profiles, eye colour determination, and epistasis.

20–30 min
Experiment

Drosophila Real-Time Cross Simulator

Run persistent F₁ and F₂ crosses, observe development, and score offspring.

Multi-session
Analyzer

Monohybrid Inheritance Analyzer

Analyze one gene at a time and infer dominance, recessiveness, and inheritance mode.

15–20 min
Analyzer

Dihybrid Inheritance Analyzer

Use two-gene phenotype tables while reasoning through each trait independently.

20–30 min
Analyzer

Sex-Linked Inheritance Analyzer

Compare reciprocal crosses and identify sex-biased phenotypic patterns.

15–25 min
χ² analysis

Dihybrid Cross and χ² Test

Test whether observed data fit the expected 9:3:3:1 Mendelian ratio.

20–30 min
χ² analysis

Test-Cross and χ² Test

Evaluate 1:1:1:1 expectations and estimate recombination frequency.

20–30 min
Generator

Drosophila Population and χ² Simulator

Generate fly populations, perform crosses, and test independent assortment.

25–40 min
Simulation

Drosophila Cross Simulator

Generate populations, select parents, cross generations, and compare phenotypes.

20–30 min
Guided tutorial · Start here

Learn Three-Point Mapping

Work through parental and DCO classes, identify the middle gene, select interval recombinants, calculate map distances, and understand coefficient of coincidence and interference.

Step-by-step lesson
Mapping

Three-Point Mapping in Drosophila

Infer gene order, map distance, double crossovers, and interference from observed data.

30–45 min
Generator

Three-Point Linkage Mapping Generator

Generate randomized three-gene linkage datasets across several organisms.

25–40 min
Modern mapping

GWAS Mapping Generator

Map a simulated trait using SNP association and Manhattan-plot reasoning.

30–45 min
Simulation

Population Genetics Generator

Explore Hardy–Weinberg expectations, selection, drift, bottlenecks, and allele-frequency change.

25–40 min
Virtual lab

PCR Simulator

Upload DNA sequences, test primers, predict products, and analyze gel results.

25–40 min
Gene regulation

lac Operon Simulator

Build haploid and partial-diploid genotypes, switch lactose conditions, and explore how regulatory mutations reshape expression through cis–trans interactions.

20–35 min

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