Chromosome Connections Kit

Grades 6-12. What is the difference between chromoromes at microscopic scale and at a molecular scale? Do your students have a hard time understanding the difference? Enhance your classroom exploration of cell cycle, cell division and genetics with this hands-on, handy kit. Each kit serves 2-4 students.

Students can manipulate the colorful foam pieces in the kit to:

• Model chromosomes structure and anatomy
• Construct Punnett squares to connect inheritance of traits to chromosomes at the molecular level
• Compare and contrast mitosis and meiosis
• Model mechanisms that contribute to genetic variation
• Model chromosomal aberrations such as nondisjunctions, translocations, inversions, deletions, and duplications