Abstract: More and more colleges have recognized the importance of bilingual teaching in improvement students’ capa-bility to integrate the specialized knowledge with the foreign language. Bilingual teaching courses have been designed to enhance the innovation of high education and improve the culture quality of students. Genetics is one of the most important courses for undergraduate students majored in the region of life sciences. However, in the case of genetics, the advisable model to carry out bilingual teaching and the matter of great concern are ambiguous and need evidence accumulated by more teaching experiments. The classic papers in genetics are valuable resources to the bilingual teaching of genetics. This paper analyzed the role of classic papers in the bilingual teaching of genetics and discussed the methods for improving the bilingual teaching of genetics.