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Study Guide for Genetics Unit:
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Vocabulary:
Characteristic
Gene
Genetics
Heredity
Inherited
Trait
Offspring
Asexual
Cell
Clone
Egg cell
Fertilization
Mutation
Nucleus
Sexual reproduction
Sperm cell
Cell division
Gamete
Haploid
Diploid
Mitosis
Meiosis
Ratio
Hypothesis
Allele
Dominant
Probability
Random
Recessive
Fraction
Characteristic
Trait
Genotype
Phenotype
Homozygous
Heterozygous
Punnett square
Chromosome
DNA
Nature vs Nurture
Diversity
CoDominance
Incomplete Dominance
Sex Determination
Carrier
Pedigree
Blood Types
DNA fingerprinting
Ethics
Act 54 Investigating human traits
Proper bar graph set up- what is required for a bar graph?
Inherited vs acquired trait
What is heredity?
What is a trait? Examples?
What is the difference between trait and characteristic?
Act55 plants have genes too
Why use plants, fruit flys- not people to study genetics?
How do we study genetics? Different methods?
Act.56 joe’s dilemma
Genetic Disease vs Infectious disease
Marfan syndrome
What are some Advantages and disadvantages or trade-offs of knowing that you
have genetic disease/genetic testing?
Activity 57 Reproduction (3 level reading guide)
What is a Hypothesis?
How do we use models?
Be able to identify Ratios and what they mean
What is Sexual vs Asexual reproduction?
- Venn diagram, Advantage/Disadvantages, examples
What is cloning?
What is a Mutation? Are they good or bad?
Activity 59- Gene Combo
Coin toss model- what does it simulate?
Ratio worksheet
Characteristic, trait, allele
Activity 60- Mendel- First Geneticist
Who is Gregor Mendel? What did he do? What did he discover/find?
dominant vs recessive
Activity 61- Gene Squares
Be able to complete a Punnett square
Know differences between:
Genotype vs phenotype
Homozygous vs heterozygous
Be able to describe outcomes of Punnett square using ratios and probabilities
Review Genetics practice ws
Act 63- Show me the Genes
mitosis vs meiosis, chromosomes, genes, alleles, sex cells
what is the difference between a sex cell and a regular human cell?
number of chromosomes in a human cell, in a human sex cell
**Drawing from person to dna with genes, chromosomes and alleles in the middle
Where are the chromosomes found in a cell?
Review Bikini Bottom worksheets
Mutations
Activity 65 Breeding Critters, more traits
See notes- exceptions to simple dominance
What is the difference between Incomplete dominance vs co-dominance and
examples of each?
How do you determine Sex of an organism?
Environmental effect examples?
Multiple alleles
Activity 62- Analyzing Genetic Data
Activity 66- Patterns in Pedigrees
What is a Carrier for a genetic trait?
Pedigrees- be able to read, create and understand one
Activity 64- Nature and Nurture
Spectrum
Affects on traits
Activity67- What would you do?
Advantages and disadvantages to genetic testing
Activity 68- searching for the lost children
Be able to create punnett squares for blood groups
Which blood type is recessive?
Which blood types are co-dominant?
You will complete a pedigree for blood types.
ABO blood groups and Rh+ and - and possible offspring’s blood types
What is recessive and what is codominant for blood types and Rh
Activity 69-Evidence from DNA
DNA uses, advantages/disadvantages for filing DNA information
dna fingerprinting Process, darker areas, placement, how it works, enzyme
Why are some bands darker? What does this represent?
Are the bands further away from the starting point smaller or bigger?
What can a trait be determined by?
What is DNA fingerprinting used for?
Why should we store dna information? Advantages, disadvantages?
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