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Meiosis and Genetics Essential Questions
These are the main questions that you need to be focusing on and thinking about as you go through your resources. To
fully explain the answers to these questions you will probably need closer to a paragraph than a single sentence.
Science Writing Standard 2b. Write informative/explanatory texts that develop the topic with relevant, well-chosen facts, definitions,
concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
The highlighted sections need to be done by the end of class. If you finish these in class, then continue working on this assignment,
but you will not have any additional homework.
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How do organisms inherit traits from their parents?
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How do scientists predict which genes an organism will inherit?
3.
What is a gene?
4.
How is asexual reproduction different from sexual reproduction?
5.
How does sexual reproduction lead to species diversity?
Meiosis and Heredity Introduction
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Mitosis
Asexual
Reproduction
Sexual
Reproduction
Meiosis
Heredity
Trait
Homozygous
Heterozygous
Dominant
Recessive
Incomplete
Dominance
Phenotype
Genotype
Punnett Square
Location
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SOURCES THAT YOU MUST CHECK OUT
Title: What is Heredity Tour of the Basics
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/traits/
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Title: What is a Trait Tour of the Basics
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/traits/
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VIDEOS THAT YOU CAN CHOOSE. YOU MUST CHOOSE THREE RESOURCES.
Heredity Brainpop username: cgadmin password: brainpop
http://www.brainpop.com/health/geneticsgrowthanddevelopment/heredity/
Genetics Brainpop username: cgadmin password: brainpop
http://www.brainpop.com/science/cellularlifeandgenetics/genetics/
Asexual Reproduction Brainpop username: cgadmin password: brainpop
http://www.brainpop.com/science/cellularlifeandgenetics/asexualreproduction/
Any Quality Discovery Education Videos from the Explain or Explore Tabs on the GENETICS UNIT.
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