How Does Ancestry Testing Work?

This lesson was created by the Personal Genetics Education Project, and paired with a clip from The Gene.

This lesson explores the science of genetic ancestry testing as well as the impacts direct-to-consumer ancestry tests can have on people’s understanding of their familial and cultural identity.

**Suitable for use in the classroom and as a distance-learning assignment**

Interested in learning more? Visit pgEd’s companion lesson on Ancestry Testing in the Genomic Age for a deeper dive into the exciting and complicated layers that ancestry testing can add to people’s concepts of identity and history.