Unit 8: Genetics and Heredity
Essential Question 1: How are traits passed from one generation to the next?
Essential Question 2: How does genotype affect phenotype?
Homework
Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.
Richard Feynman( 1918 – 1988) an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum electrodynamics and particle theory.
Class Notes in pdf
- Genetics and Heredity Notes - download
Study Guides: One page to Rule them all
Labs . Diagrams . Other Stuff
- Genetics Word Problems
- Blank punnett square work sheet
- It isn't easy being green lab
- Lab report Rubric
- Eye Color in Babies Game
Questions of the week:
Extra Work makes your Alleles Dominant
Each set of questions is a separate assignment. You must complete all of the questions in each set for credit but you can do as many or as few sets as you like.
- Genetics Problems - View
- Extra Bonus Tutorial Questions
CONTENT KNOWLEDGE OBJECTIVES
Initial Understanding:
- Discuss Mendel’s experiments and his results.
- Discuss the development of the chromosome theory of heredity.
Developing an Interpretation:
- Explain the three principles of genetics Mendel obtained through his experiments.
- Explain how the expression of a pair of genes may be influenced by other genes as well as by the environment.
Making Connections:
- Solve genetic problems using Punnett squares.
- Apply the rules of probability to solve genetic problems.
- Demonstrate the inheritance of traits resulting from incomplete dominance, codominance and multiple alleles.
- Apply the laws of probability to solve genetics problems involving sex linked traits.
Taking a Critical Stance:
- Defend the role of genetics in creating variation in a species.
- Research and develop a project that describes a human genetic disorder and explains mode of inheritance, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment.