Download Unit 2 – Genetics Content Map

TCSS Biology Genetics Content Map
Unit Essential Question: What makes organisms unique?
GPS Standard(s):
SB2. Students will analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations.
A. Distinguish between DNA and RNA.
B. Explain the role of DNA in storing and transmitting cellular information.
C. Using Mendel’s laws, explain the role of meiosis in reproductive variability.
D. Describe the relationships between changes in DNA and potential appearance of new traits including:
-Alternating during replication
-Insertions
-High energy radiation (x-rays and ultraviolet)
-Deletions
-Substitutions
-Mutagenic factors that can alter DNA
-Chemical
E. Compare the advantages of sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction in different situations.
F. Examine the use of DNA technology in forensics, medicine, and agriculture.
Concept 1
Concept 2
Concept 3
Chapter 12.1, 12.2
Chapter 12.3
Chapter 9.1, 9.2, 10.1
GPS: 2B
GPS:2A, 2B
GPS: 2E, 2C
DNA Structure & DNA Replication
DNA, RNA, & Protein Synthesis
Asexual vs. Sexual Reproduction
Lesson Essential Question:
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
What is the basic structure of a DNA molecule?
What are the similarities and differences
between DNA and RNA?
How does the structure of DNA contribute to
the transmission of genetic information?
How is DNA used to create proteins?
Why is DNA replication necessary?
Why is RNA essential to protein synthesis?
What are the steps in the DNA replication
process?
What is the Central Dogma of Biology?
What controls the rate of cellular reproduction?
What are the advantages of asexual
reproduction?
What are the advantages of sexual
reproduction?
What are the steps of protein synthesis and
where do they take place?
Vocabulary 1:
Base Pair/Nitrogenous Base, DNA, Nucleotide,
Deoxyribose, Phosphate, Adenine, Thymine,
Guanine, Cytosine, Hydrogen Bonds, Semi-
Vocabulary 2:
Ribose, Uracil, messenger RNA, transfer RNA,
ribosomal RNA, Anticodon, Codon, Protein
Synthesis, Transcription, Translation, RNA
Vocabulary 3:
Somatic Cells, Cell Cycle, Daughter Cells,
Diploid (2n), Gametes, Haploid (n),
Homologous Chromosomes, Interphase,
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Conservative Replication, Ligase, Helicase,
DNA Polymerase, Codon, Chargaff’s Rule
Concept 4
Chapter 10.2, 11.1 & 11.2
GPS: 2C
Mendelian Genetics
Lesson Essential Question:
Polymerase, Ribosome, Central Dogma
Concept 5
Chapter 11.3, 12.4
GPS: 2D, 2E
Mutations (Chromosomal and Point)
Lesson Essential Questions:
How do Mendel’s Laws explain the role of
meiosis in reproductive variability?
What problems can result, when there is an
abnormal change in DNA?
What other patterns contribute to genetic
variation?
What problems can result when there is a
malfunction in DNA transmission?
Vocabulary 5:
Dominant, Recessive, Genotype, Phenotype,
Allele, Gregor Mendel, Homozygous,
Heterozygous, Purebred, Hybrid, Monohybrid,
Dihybrid, Punnett Square, Gamete, Law of
Dominance, Law of Independent Assortment,
Law of Segregation, Incomplete Dominance,
Codominance, Pedigree, Blood Types, Multiple
Allele, Sex Linked Traits
Vocabulary 4:
Deletion, Insertion, Mutagens, Mutation,
Nondisjunction, Replication, Substitution,
Trisomy, Point Mutation, Monosomy,
Karyotype, Frameshift
Meiosis, Mitosis, Cytokinesis, Prophase,
Metaphase, Telophase, Anaphase, Chromatid,
Chromosome, Crossing Over, Genetic
Variability
Concept 6
Chapter 13.2, 13.3
GPS: 2F
DNA Technology
Lesson Essential Question:
How is DNA technology used in forensics,
medicine, and agriculture?
Vocabulary 6:
Cloning, Engineering, Gel Electrophoresis,
Gene Therapy, Transgenic Organisms,
Recombinant DNA, Restriction Enzymes,
Genetically Modified Organisms, DNA
Fingerprinting, Bioethics, Genome, Polymerase
Chain Reaction
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