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Nature or nurture?
How do organisms inherit traits for their parents?
What traits are inheritable - physical, intelligence,behavior?
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Student Learning Map
- Topic:Genetics
- Subject(s):Science
- Days:17
- Grade(s):10
Key Learning:
Genetics is the study of inheritance.
Genes are inherited from parents.
Not all genes are expressed.
DNA and RNA are essential for transmission of genetic information.
Unit Essential Question(s):
Lesson Essential Question(s):What are the basic concepts of genetics?
How are meiosis and mitosis different? (A)Lesson Essential Question(s):Why is DNA called the molecule of heredity?
What do your DNA/Genes have to do with birth defects,viral diseases,cancer, aging,genetic engineering, and criminal investigations?
How does DNA "hold" information? (A)Lesson Essential Question(s):Distinguish between DNA and RNA.
What steps are involved in protein synthesis?
How does DNA code for protein? (A)Vocabulary:Heredity, genetics, trait, gamete, pollination, fertilization, hybrid, allele, dominant, recessive, law of segregation, phenotype, genotype, homozygous, heterozygous, law of independent assortment, crossion over, meiosis, diploid, haploid, homologous chromosomes, sperm, egg, zygote, sexual reproduction, genetic recombination, nondisjunction
Vocabulary:DNA replication, double helix, nitrogen base, codon, chromosomal mutations, mutagen, mutation, point mutation
Concept: Lesson Essential Question(s):Why do you look like that?
How are traits inherited?
How can a human trait be determined by a simple dominant allele?
How do internal and external environments affect gene expression? (A)Lesson Essential Question(s):How has genetic technology changed the world around us?
Why are plant and animal breeding important to humans? (A)Lesson Essential Question(s):Vocabulary:karyotype, carrier, fetus, pedigree, autosome, codominant alleles, incomplete dominance, multiple alleles, polygenic inheritance, sex chromosome, sex-linked trait
Vocabulary:inbreeding, clone, test cross, genetic engineering, recombinant DNA, restriction enzyme, gene therapy, human genome, linkage map
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