Transcript Essential Standard: 1.1 Understanding the relationship between

Essential Standard: 3.2 Understand how the
environment, and/or the interaction of alleles,
influences the expression of genetic traits.
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Clarifying Objective:
3.2.1 Explain the role
of meiosis in sexual
reproduction and
genetic variation.
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Objective Goal: SWBAT
identify meiosis as a
method of sexual
reproduction within cells
that increases the genetic
variation of a population
Date: Monday, September 24, 2012
Concept #1: Meiosis
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Learning Essential
Question:
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How does meiosis
compare to mitosis?
How does meiosis
lead to independent
assortment and
genetic diversity?
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Vocabulary:
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Crossing over
Fertilization
Independent
assortment
Meiosis
Nondisjunction
Random assortment
Sexual reproduction
Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Concept #2: Genetic Variation
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Learning Essential
Question:
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What sources lead to
genetic variation in
sexually reproducing
organisms?
Vocabulary:
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Gene mutation
Genetic diversity
Genetic variation
Essential Standard: 3.2 Understand how the
environment, and/or the interaction of alleles,
influences the expression of genetic traits.
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Clarifying Objective:
3.2.2 Predict offspring
ratios based on a
variety of inheritance
patterns
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Objective Goal: SWBAT
understand and predict
offspring based on
different inheritance
patterns.
Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Concept #1: Mendelian Inheritance
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Learning Essential
Question:
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Who is Mendel and
what are his laws?
How are genotypic
and phenotypic ratios
determined?
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Vocabulary:
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Mendel
Alleles
Phenotype
Genotype
Date: Thursday, September 27, 2012
Concept #2: Genetic Expression
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Learning Essential
Question:
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How are genes
expressed?
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Vocabulary:
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Dominant allele
Recessive allele
Homozygous
Heterozygous
Date: Friday, September 28, 2012
Concept #3: Punnett Squares
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Learning Essential
Question:
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How are genotypic
and phenotypic ratios
determined by using
Punnett squares?
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Vocabulary:
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Punnet Squares
Genotypic ratios
Phenotypic ratios
Date: Monday, October 1, 2012
Concept #4: Pedigrees
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Learning Essential
Question:
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How can pedigrees be
used to identify the
genotypes?
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Vocabulary:
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Pedigrees
Carrier
Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Concept #5: Complex Inheritance
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Learning Essential
Question:
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What are the alternate
ways in which traits
cane be inherited?
How can parentage be
determined based on
blood type?
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Vocabulary:
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Incomplete dominance
Co-dominance
Multiple alleles
Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Concept #6: Complex Inheritance
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Learning Essential
Question:
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How can sex-linked
traits be interpreted
using Punnett
squares? Pedigrees?
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Vocabulary:
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Polygenic Inheritance
Sex linked inheritance
Essential Standard: 3.2 Understand how the
environment, and/or the interaction of alleles,
influences the expression of genetic traits.
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Clarifying Objective:
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3.2.2 Predict offspring
ratios based on
inheritance patterns
3.2.3 Explain how the
environment can
influence the
expression of genetic
traits.
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Objective Goal: SWBAT
understand how the
environment influences
genetic traits.
Date: Thursday, October 4, 2012
Concept #1: Karyotype
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Learning Essential
Question:
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What is a karyotype?
How is it used?
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Vocabulary:
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Karyotype
Date: Friday, October 5, 2012
Concept #2: Human Karyotypes
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Learning Essential
Question:
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How are karyotypes
used to identify gender
and certain
chromosomal
abnormalities?
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Vocabulary:
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Down syndrome
Amniocentesis