2016 Sense Publishers. All rights reserved. This PBL will challenge students to recognize implications of Mendelian inheritance and population genetics over a span of eight class periods. Students will research common mammalian traits and inheritance patterns and as a class will decide on traits to study in the classs population of flying hamsters. They will construct 3D models - from potatoes and other items - of their own flying hamsters based on randomly selected genotypes. Their task will then be to maximize reproductive success in their selection of a mate from the population of flying hamsters in the class after a disaster strikes and the hamsters are left stranded in a novel environment.