Rapid-Growing Wisconsin Fast Plants® Make Classroom Genetics Studies Possible! Wisconsin Fast Plants® are a wonderful model plant genetics organism for the classroom. The plants have several traits that make them attractive: A wide variety of mutant seed is available They are closely related to many food crops produced in the United States, making them especially relevant They cannot self-pollinate, so it is easy to carry out controlled crosses in the classroom The yhave clearly visible mutations; stem color, plant height, and more They have a 35- to 40- day life cycle that lets you start with F1 seed and carry it to the F2 generation in a short time span

FREE - 3,2,1 Countdown to Genetics Student Guide We now offer a free digital student guide intended for use with the 3,2,1 Countdown to Genetics Kit.

Grade 8-College. For a class of 30 students. Why just tell students about genetics when they can learn the basic principles of Mendelian genetics and the concepts of inheritance by observing real plants? Students examine 3-day-old plants to study 2 phenotypes allowing you to do 1 assessment of their understanding. Using petri dishes and filter papers, students sow seeds for 3-day-old P1- and F1-generation plants. They make observations and form a hypothesis about the phenotype of the F2 generation. They then sow the F2 seeds to test the hypothesis.

All kit activities can be completed in just 3 class periods—and everything is included except a light source. (We recommend the #158994 Plant Light House™.)