Plant Genetics & Heredity
📋 What it is
Plants inherit traits through genes; breeders select desirable traits over generations.
🗣️ Coach says
Plants pass traits to offspring through genes, just like animals. Farmers and gardeners use this: by choosing which plants to breed, they select for traits like sweeter fruit or drought resistance. Over generations, that selection reshapes a crop — heredity, guided by human choice.
🧠 Memory hook
Plants inherit traits by genes; breeders SELECT good traits over generations.
😂 Giggle
My garden's doing well — you could say things are looking up.
Especially the sunflowers.
😲 Whoa!
Wild corn was once a scrawny grass with tiny cobs — thousands of years of selective breeding turned it into the plump corn we eat today.
✅ Quick check: How do plant breeders get sweeter or hardier crops?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
They select plants with the desired traits to breed, so those traits become more common over generations.
Selective breeding favours desirable heritable traits across generations.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Compare a wild berry to a store one. The bigger, sweeter store berry is generations of selective breeding.