State Standards: Reproduction and Heredity Standard #7: Recognize that every organism requires a set of instructions that specifies its traits. These instructions are stored in the organism’s chromosomes. Heredity is the passage of these instructions from one generation to another. Standard # 8: Recognize that hereditary information is contained in genes located in the chromosomes of each cell. A human cell contains about 30,000 different genes on 23 different chromosomes.
Major Learning Targets:
I can calculate probability of a trait if you know the alleles of the parents in a fraction or percentage
I can list all the possible gene combinations of an offspring using the parent’s alleles for a single gene trait
I can show what trait will be expressed given the combination of alleles for a given offspring
I can explain how this information is used in modern genetics and medicine
Important Concepts:
Scientists can use a parent’s genes to predict certain traits of the offspring. This can be beneficial in the case of genetic diseases
Understand how traits can skip generations
Know that an recessive traits are only expressed when two recessive alleles are combined
Genetic probabilities are applied to solve real life problems
Important Skills:
Be able to construct Punnett squares for a variety of scenarios
Be able to interpret the results of your Punnett squares
Be able to express probability in a percent or ratio
Assessments and Projects in Addition to Weekly Test:
Sponge Bob genetics Problems- Math and science integration
Reproduction and Heredity
Standard #7: Recognize that every organism requires a set of instructions that specifies its traits. These instructions are stored in the organism’s chromosomes. Heredity is the passage of these instructions from one generation to another.
Standard # 8: Recognize that hereditary information is contained in genes located in the chromosomes of each cell. A human cell contains about 30,000 different genes on 23 different chromosomes.
Major Learning Targets:
Important Concepts:
Important Skills:
Assessments and Projects in Addition to Weekly Test:
Resources:
Prentice Hall Life Science
Chapter 4
Sec 2 Probability and Heredity pg 118-123
Discovery Ed Punnet Square clips
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