Acquired and Inherited Traits | English
Channel: IISER Pune Science Activity Centre
Date: 24/09/2021

In this video, students and teachers can understand the basics of heredity and variations. By watching this video, students will differentiate between inherited and acquired traits. They will also identify and make a list of inherited and acquired traits in themselves and their friends. They will identify and analyze the most and least common inherited traits seen in a population of their own classes. In this video, they will learn that acquired traits can be developed and learned when they grow. They learn to make the trait tree. Importantly, by doing various activities mentioned in this video, they will understand the importance of observations, experimentation, and data analysis.

Link for the text lesson plan: https://drive.google.com/file/d/150EANV8AEJgwtYFdPk3XUmqSu80vOUKO/view?usp=sharing

This video is produced under IISER Pune – Tata Technologies “STEP for STEM” Project.

Team: Prof. Harinath Chakrapani, Dr Sourabh Dube, Dr Aparna Deshpande, Shubhangi Wankhede, Ashok Rupner, Dr Neeraja Dashaputre, Dr Chaitanya Mungi, Ankish Tirpude, Shraddha Bhurkunde, Dinesh Turkar, Pradnya Pujari, Sakhee Bhure, Dr Apurva Barve, Dr Asim Auti, Shanti Pise, Rohit Piwal and Science media centre team of IISER Pune.