Hearne ISD
Science
Course: Biology
Unit: Mutations, Genetics, Genetic Engineering, and Evolution
TEKS/Prerequisites
Assessment
Guiding
Questions/
Specificity
Designated Six Weeks: Fourth Six Weeks
Days to teach: 27 Days
Vocabulary
Instructional
Strategies/ELPS
Unit Topic: Mutations
6E Identify and illustrate changes in
DNA and evaluate the significance
of these changes.
(EOC Readiness Standard)
D. Molecular Genetics and
Heredity
2. Know modifications to Mendel’s
Laws.
(College and Career Readiness
Standards)
Resources/
Weblinks
Days to Teach: 5 Days
How do changes in
DNA affect the
resulting protein?
What are the
implications of
these changes?
Specificity:
Emphasize:
Duplication,
Insertion,
Translocation, and
Inversion,
A mutation
caused by a piece
of DNA breaking
away from its
chromosome and
becoming
attached to a
nonhomologous
chromosome is
called
a.deletion
b.duplication
c.inversion
d.translocation
Point mutation,
Deletion,
Insertion,
Frame shift
Mutation
Activities
Mutations Activity:
http://www.biologyjunc
tion.com/Monstrous%2
0Mutations.doc
ELPS/Strategies
http://ritter.tea.state.t
x.us/rules/tac/chapter
074/ch074a.html
3E Manipulative
2G Questioning
Answers
Text: Biology, Holt, 201 5
http://www.biologyjuncti o
n.com/Monstrous%20Mut
tions.doc
6E – DNA Mutations Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
fstlgoynlk&edufilter=_2nXFUMa
1_cnY78uKT5qQ
APPS: TASA Bio – Posts/Materia
Mutations Activity
=
Revised Spring 2014
Hearne ISD
Science
Course: Biology
Unit: Mutations, Genetics, Genetic Engineering, and Evolution
TEKS/Prerequisites
Assessment
Guiding
Questions/
Specificity
Designated Six Weeks: Fourth Six Weeks
Days to teach: 27 Days
Vocabulary
Instructional
Strategies/ELPS
Unit Topic: Genetics
6F Predict possible outcomes of
various genetic combinations
such as monohybrid crosses,
dihybrid crosses and non
Mendelian inheritance
(EOC Readiness Standard)
D. Molecular Genetics and
Heredity
1. Understand Mendel’s Laws
of Inheritance
2. Know modifications of
Mendel’s laws.
(College and Career
Readiness Standards)
Days to Teach: 8 Days
How do the results
of dihybrid crosses
express themselves
in living
organisms?
If an individual
possesses two
recessive alleles
for the same trait,
the individual is
said to be
a. homozygous
for the trait.
b. haploid for the
trait
c. heterozygous
for the trait.
d. mutated.
Punnett Square,
Mendelian
Genetics,
monohybrid and
dihybrid crosses,
recessive,
dominant, traits,
alleles
Activities
Oompah Loompah
Genetics:
ELPS/Strategies
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rul
es/tac/chapter074/ch074a.ht
ml
1A
KWL
Analogy
Perceptive
Based Activities
Punnett Squares II
Using the Scientific
Method with Genetics:
http://www.biologyju
nction.com/scientific
%20method%20&%2
Revised Spring 2014
Resources/
Weblinks
6F – Dihybrid Crosses
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/
atch?v=ob9mgWhZRaY
Hearne ISD
Science
Course: Biology
Unit: Mutations, Genetics, Genetic Engineering, and Evolution
TEKS/Prerequisites
Assessment
Guiding
Questions/
Specificity
Designated Six Weeks: Fourth Six Weeks
Days to teach: 27 Days
Vocabulary
Instructional
Strategies/ELPS
Resources/
Weblinks
0genetics.htm
ELPS/Strategies
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rul
es/tac/chapter074/ch074a.ht
ml
2D Graphic Organizer
1C Self Assess of think
pair share
4F
Unit Topic: Genetic Engineering
6H Describe how techniques
such as DNA fingerprinting,
genetic modifications and
chromosomal analysis are
used to study the genome of
organisms.
(EOC Supporting Standard)
Classification and Taxonomy
1. Know ways in which living things
can be classified based on each
organism’s internal and external
structure, development, and
relatedness of DNA sequences.
(College and Career
Readiness Standards)
Revised Spring 2014
Days to Teach: 4 Days
How can genetic
disorder be detected
using different
techniques?
Genetic engineering
refers to the process of
a. creating new DNA
molecules from
nucleotide sequences.
b. rearranging
nucleotides in a gene of
an organism so that new
traits appear in the
development of an
embryo.
c. moving genes from a
chromosome of one
organism to a
chromosome of a
different organism.
d. building a new
species by combining
genes of different
organisms.
Karyotype,
DNA fingerprint,
genetic
engineering,
genetic
modification,
genome.
Activities
Human Genome
Human Genome Activity:
APPS: TASA Bio – Posts/Materia
ELPS/Strategies
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rul
es/tac/chapter074/ch074a.ht
ml
2F
3E
Advance Organizers
Partner Reading
Hearne ISD
Science
Course: Biology
Unit: Mutations, Genetics, Genetic Engineering, and Evolution
TEKS/Prerequisites
Assessment
Guiding
Questions/
Specificity
Designated Six Weeks: Fourth Six Weeks
Days to teach: 27 Days
Vocabulary
Instructional
Strategies/ELPS
Unit Topic: Evolution
7A Analyze and evaluate how
evidence of common ancestry
among groups is provided by the
fossil records, biogeography,
homologies, including anatomical,
molecular and developmental.
(EOC Readiness Standard)
7B Analyze and evaluate scientific
explanations concerning any data of
sudden appearance, stasis, &
sequential nature of groups in the
fossil record.
EOC Supporting Standard)
(College and Career Readiness
Standards)
7C Analyze and evaluate how
natural selection produces change in
populations, not individuals.
(EOC Supporting Standard)
(College and Career Readiness
Standards)
7D Analyze and evaluate how the
elements of natural selection including
inherited variation, the potential of a
population to produce more offspring
that can survive, and a finite supply of
environmental resources, results in
differential reproductive success
(EOC Supporting Standard)
(College and Career Readiness
Standards)
Revised Spring 2014
Resources/
Weblinks
Days to Teach: 10 Days
What is the
difference between
homologous and
analogous
structures?
What are some of
the reasons for the
differences between
organisms?
What are some of
the results of
natural selection?
What are the
different reasons
species are
successful today?
Natural selection
generates
a. changes in the
environment.
b. plants and
animals to
produce more
offspring than can
survive.
c. changes in the
frequency of
certain alleles in a
population
d. All of the
above
Homologous
structure
analogous structure
embryology
vestigial structure
fossil record
natural selection
population
evolution
Identify which of the
following is a vestigial
structure?
a. the human tailbone
b. the bill of a finch
c. flower color
d. fossil cast
Activities
Peppered Moth
Simulation
http://biologycorner.c
om/worksheets/peppe
rmoth_paper.html
ELPS/Strategies
http://ritter.tea.state.t
x.us/rules/tac/chapter
074/ch074a.html
3E Question
Answer
4G World
Knowledge
Inherited
variations
reproduction
adaptation
diversity
Activities
Modeling Natural
Selection
http://www.biologyc
orner.com/worksheet
s/naturalselection.ht
ml
ELPS/Strategies
7A – Evidence of Common
Ancestry Video:
http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.
hp?video_id=270756
Hearne ISD
Science
Course: Biology
Unit: Mutations, Genetics, Genetic Engineering, and Evolution
TEKS/Prerequisites
Assessment
Guiding
Questions/
Specificity
7E Analyze and evaluate the
relationship of natural selection to
adaptation and to the development
of diversity in and among species.
(EOC Readiness Standard)
(College and Career Readiness
Standards)
7F Analyze and evaluate the effect
of other evolutionary mechanisms,
including genetic drift, gene flow,
mutation and recombination.
(EOC Supporting Standard)
C. Evolution and Population
1. Know multiple categories of
evidence for evolutionary change and
how this evidence is used to infer
evolutionary relationships among
organisms.
2. Recognize variations in populations
sizes, including extinction, and describe
mechanisms and conditions.
(College and Career Readiness
Standards)
Revised Spring 2014
What are the effects
of other
evolutionary
mechanisms on
today’s species?
Designated Six Weeks: Fourth Six Weeks
Days to teach: 27 Days
Vocabulary
Instructional
Strategies/ELPS
genetic drift
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rul
es/tac/chapter074/ch074a.ht
ml
gene flow
3E
Manipulatives 2I
Question Answer
mutation
Resources/
Weblinks
Guppy Similation
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/
volution/sex/guppy/ed_po
.html
Guppy Simulation Worksheet
recombination
Sex and Guppy Computer
Simulation
http://www.biologycorner
com/worksheets/guppy.ht
ml
7E – Natural Selection
Video:
http://www.educreations.c
om/lesson/view/b-7-enaturalselection/2386469/?s=oN
VrO&ref=appemail