My students often fail to make broad connections between meiosis and genetics, so I created this in an effort to really break these ideas down. These 5 pages outline what a chromosome is, how genes and their specific alleles are inherited, how variation is created between siblings via crossing over and independent assortment, how traits are expressed and what happens when things go wrong (nondisjunction). You can assign this as homework, go over it as a whole class, or have students work with