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Genetics Learning Targets
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Describe the results of Mendel’s experiments
Explain what characteristics of pea plants Mendel
studied and what he discovered.
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Identify what controls the inheritance of traits in
organisms.
Define probability and describe how it helps explain
the results of genetic crosses.
Distinguish between the notations AA, Aa, and aa in
terms of dominant, recessive, heterozygous and
homozygous alleles.
Create a Punnett square that shows the possible gene
combinations for common genetic alleles.
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Explain the chromosome theory of inheritance.
Explain what chromosomes are contained in sex
cells, and how their number is different form
chromosomes in body cells.
Describe how chromosomes are involved in
inherited characteristics.
Identify the purpose of meiosis.
Explain the relationship between chromosomes and
genes.
Explain what forms the genetic code.
Draw a section of DNA. Correctly placing
phosphate, sugar and nitrogenous bases in a double
helix.
Describe how a cell produces proteins.
Distinguish between the bases found in RNA and
bases found in DNA.
Identify the role of mRNA and tRNA in the creation
of proteins.
Identify how mutations can affect an organism.
Identify some patterns of inheritance in humans.
Describe the purpose of the sex chromosomes.
Identify two major causes of genetic disorders in
humans.
Explain how geneticists trace the inheritance of
traits.
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