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Genetics Cross Lab — Fruit Fly
Design two parent fruit flies across four real, documented Drosophila traits, breed them, and analyse the resulting phenotype ratios with a built-in chi-square hypothesis test. Models true X-linked inheritance. First module of a planned multi-species genetics cross lab.
Years 9–12Guided investigation
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