Asking Questions in Biology

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 26.06.08

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Background Knowledge & Content
  4. Reginald Punnett And The Punnett Square
  5. Ptolemy Marriages
  6. Cousin Marriages
  7. Native American Clan System
  8. Teaching Strategies
  9. Punnet Square
  10. Classroom Activities
  11. Annotated Bibliography
  12. Appendix On Implementing State And Diné Standards
  13. Notes

Mendel/Punnett, Close Marriages and Clans (K’é)

Jolene Smith

Published September 2026

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Annotated Bibliography

Ager, Sheila L. “The Power of Excess: Royal Incest and the Ptolemaic Dynasty.” Anthropologica 48, no. 2 (2006): 165–186. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/2410.

Bittles, Alan H., and Michele L. Black. "Consanguineous Marriage and Human Evolution." Annual Review of Anthropology 39 (2010): 193–207. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.012809.105051.

Brechtel, Marcia. Bringing It All Together: Language and Literacy in the Multilingual Classroom. San Diego, CA: Dominie Press, 2001.

De Castro M. Johann Grego Mendel: paragon of experimental science. Mol Genet Genomic Med. 2016 Jan 8; 4(1): 3-38. Doi: 10.1002/mgg3.199, PMID: 26788542

Edwards, A. W. F. 2012. "Reginald Crundall Punnett: First Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics, Cambridge, 1912." Genetics 192 (1): 1–3.

Edwards, Ross. 2016. "The Study of Genetics: A Historical Perspective." iScientist. https://journals.mcmaster.ca/iscientist/article/view/1146/1002.

Kaut, Charles R. “The Clan System as an Epiphenomenal Element of Western Apache Social Organization.” Ethnology 13, no. 1 (January 1974): 45–70.

Mendel, Gregor. 1901. "Experiments in Plant Hybridization." In The Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society 26: 3–32. Translated by William Bateson.

Punnett, Reginald Crundall. 2026. In Encyclopædia Britannica. Accessed July 13, 2026. Encyclopædia Britannica Biography of Reginald Punnett.

Schwarzbach, Erik, Petr Smykal, Ondrej Dostal, Michaela Jarkovska, and Simona Valova. “Gregor J. Mendel-genetics founding father.” (2014): 43-51

Zhang, Hui, Wen Chen, and Kun Sun. "Mendelism: New insights from Gregor Mendel's lectures in Brno." Genetics 207, no. 1 (2017): 1-8. Genetics

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