Name: _________________________________________________ Period: ________
By the end of this unit you will be able to:
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Explain Mendel’s breeding experiments, features of pea
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plants and ratios in Mendel’s results
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Compare and contrast homozygous dominant, homozygous
recessive and heterozygous
Use a Punnett square to predict the outcome of offspring
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Understand and describe different forms of heredity
based on the traits of the parents
such as polygenic inheritance, incomplete dominance,
Explain how random segregation of alleles is important in
multiple alleles and codominance.
genetic variety
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Video: Greatest Discoveries in Genetics w/notes
Finish Video
Lecture: Mendel, Monohybrid crosses, generations, dominance Genotypes, Phenotypes, and alleles
Worksheet: Mendelian Genetics Review
Notecard Game
Lecture: Monohybrid Cross/Punnett squares
Walk about: Punnett Square Problems
Worksheet: Punnett Square Review
LAB: Predicting Genetics
Lecture: Dihybrid Crosses (2 trait Punnett squares)
Worksheet: Dihybrid Crosses
LAB: Corn Dihybrid Genetics
Worksheet: Study Guide Genetics
BIG QUIZ: Mendelian Genetics
Lecture: determining gender & sex linked trait
LAB: Determining Gender
Lecture: Pedigrees and sex-linked traits
Worksheet: Pedigree Practice
Walkabout: Pedigrees
LAB: Creating a pedigree
Lecture: Incomplete Dominance, Codominance
Practice: Incomplete Dominance and Codominance
BIG QUIZ: Pedigrees and inheritance
Lecture: Multiple Alleles and Polygenic Inheritance
Worksheet: Multiple Alleles and Polygenic Inheritance
Worksheet: Test review
25minutes of work time/review time
All Assignments Due
Video: Lorenzo’s Oil
Vocabulary:
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Trait
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Genotype
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Pedigree
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Generation
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Phenotype
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Sex-linked trait
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Hybrid
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Homozygous
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Polygenic inheritance
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Allele
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Heterozygous
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Multiple alleles
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Dominant
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Punnett Square
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Incomplete dominance
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Recessive
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Probability
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Codominance
12-1: Origins of Hereditary Science
Mendel’s Breeding Experiments:
Features of Pea Plants
Mendel’s First Experiments
Ratios in Mendel’s Results
12-2: Mendel’s Theory
Explaining Mendel’s Results:
Alleles:
Dominant and Recessive:
Random Segregation:
Genotypes and Phenotypes:
Homozygous and Heterozygous:
Mendel’s Second Experiments:
12-3: Modeling Mendel’s Laws
Punnett Squares:
Probability:
Dihybrid Cross:
Probability:
Pedigrees: Normal Dominance
Pedigree: Sex Linked Dominance
Polygenic Inheritance:
Incomplete Dominance:
Multiple Alleles:
Codominance:
Genes affected by environment and Genes linked within chromosomes: