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Genetics Research:

Pedigree Analysis: A Family Tree of Traits

http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_...

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This one's a pretty good idea. His family is huge (both sides of his family have their reunion in my barn, so I know) so he should have plenty of data. I didn't know the thumb business was a Mendelian trait.

I can actually see a 5th grade teacher nixing this one because it seems to encourage drawing conclusions from research rather than a hands-on experiment.

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