Describe different scenarios under which alleles sort into gametes during meiosis using pipe cleaners.

Describe different scenarios under which alleles sort into gametes during meiosis using pipe cleaners.

1. Talk through the phases of meiosis using pipe cleaners.
2. Explain where and how meiosis results in the shuffling of genes and increased genetic variation, and why this is evolutionarily important.
3. When given a genotype, label the genes and alleles on pipe cleaner chromosomes for independent and/or dependent assortment.
4. Show how nondisjunction in meiosis could result in offspring with Down Syndrome.
5. Draw a Punnett square based on gametes produced for any of these scenarios (independent assortment, dependent assortment, nondisjunction).