Big Ideas:

Heredity

Essential Questions: How does information flow from the cell nucleus to direct the synthesis of proteins?  How can we use genetics to study inheritance?

Vocabulary: DNA, RNA, protein synthesis, genes, alleles, phenotype, genotype, homozygous, heterozygous, monohybrid, dihybrid, trihybrid, probability, testcross, co-dominance, incomplete dominance, multiple alleles, polygenetics, transposons

Month

Content

Skills

Asessment

Standards

Instructional Activities, Strategies, and Differentiation

March

Genetics

Formative:

HS-LS1-1; HS-LS1-6; HS-LS3-1,2,3

Provide Topic Reading Assignments and Vocabulary List

DNA “Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid” (Structure and Function)

Create a model of DNA to understand the structures, explain the location/functions of genes, and investigate the basic principles of protein synthesis

Deliver Information via Lecture, Discussion and Handouts

Protein Synthesis (Fundamentals of Transcription and Translation)

Extract DNA from chicken liver cells and isolating the DNA in solution for observation

Student Partipiation and Dialog

Use Technology (ie Simulations/Illustrations/Videos), Various Manipulatives and Word Play

Terminology (Gene/Allele, Heredity, Genotype/Phenotype, Dominant/

Develop an awareness of phenotypic and genotypic patterns and fractions/percentages/ratios

Study Guide Assignments

Offer Review Opportunities (Study Guides and Study Sessions)

Recessive, Homozygous/Heterozygous)

Demonstrates the meaning of various terms such as genes, genotype, phenotype, dominant and recessive

Lab Practicles and/or Projects

Supplement Topic Discussion with Labs/Projects/Demonstrations

Mendel’s Experiments and Principles (Dominance, Segregation,

Predict the genotypic and phenotypic ratios of offspring resulting from the random paring of gametes and to calculate and graph the genotypic ratio and/or phenotypic those ratios

Chapter Quizzes

and Independent Assortment)

Arrange chromosomes in declining order of size based on height and gene band patterns in order to determine a patient’s gender

Reading / Vocabulary Exam

Punnett’s Squares (Monohybrid, Dihybrid, Trihybrid Tables)

Become aware of how a pedigree is created and used for clinical studies

Use an expanded binomial to find gene frequencies for a particular trait

Summative:

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Chapter Exam

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