OBJECTIVE: Students will explore the transimission of a single sex-linked trait in order to explain why x-linked diseases have a higher occurence in males than females.
WARM-UP: Explain how, using a Punnett Square, two brown rabbits could produce white offspring.
VOCABULARY:
1) incomplete dominance
2) trait
3) inheritance
4) codominance
4) multiple alleles
CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Are Traits Inherited? p. 262
3) Sex-linked traits review
4) Punnett Square practice
5) Closure
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Section 11-2 Assessment p. 269
HOMEWORK DUE:
Section 11-1 Assessment p. 266
Friday, March 12, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
March 10 (A Day) and March 11 (B Day)
OBJECTIVE: Students will perform an activity in order to predict how traits will be inherited.
WARM-UP: What does it mean to be a "carrier" of a gene?
VOCABULARY:
1) incomplete dominance
2) sex-linked traits
3) hybrid
4) purebred
CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Review Punnett Squares
3) Discussion of scenario
4) Activity
5) Closure
HOMEWORK DUE:
Notes on Section 11-5
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Section assessment p. 266
WARM-UP: What does it mean to be a "carrier" of a gene?
VOCABULARY:
1) incomplete dominance
2) sex-linked traits
3) hybrid
4) purebred
CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Review Punnett Squares
3) Discussion of scenario
4) Activity
5) Closure
HOMEWORK DUE:
Notes on Section 11-5
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Section assessment p. 266
Monday, March 08, 2010
March 8 (A Day) and March 9 (B Day)
OBJECTIVE:
1) Students will discuss the show "Faces of America" in order to learn how to distinguish between phenotype and genotype.
2) Students will explore the principles of probability in order to predict what traits will be expressed in hypothetical offspring.
VOCABULARY:
1) Recessive
2) Dominant
3) Probability
4) Heterozygous
5) Homozygous
CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Discussion of Faces of America
3) Punnett Square Activity
4) Closure
HOMEWORK DUE:
None
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read and take notes on Section 12-1
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None
1) Students will discuss the show "Faces of America" in order to learn how to distinguish between phenotype and genotype.
2) Students will explore the principles of probability in order to predict what traits will be expressed in hypothetical offspring.
VOCABULARY:
1) Recessive
2) Dominant
3) Probability
4) Heterozygous
5) Homozygous
CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Discussion of Faces of America
3) Punnett Square Activity
4) Closure
HOMEWORK DUE:
None
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read and take notes on Section 12-1
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
March 4 (A Day) and March 5 (B Day)
OBJECTIVE: Students will explore the principles of probability in order to predict the outcomes of genetic crosses.
WARM-UP: Describe one way that a phenotype can differ from a genotype.
VOCABULARY:
1) phenotype
2) genotype
3) Punnett Square
4) Gregor Mendel
5) offspring
CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Discussion of genetics terms and Punnett Squares
3) Sponge Bob Punnett Square activity (handouts)
4) Closure
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK: Go to this website www.mdk12.org/assessments/high_school/index_d.html and take the 2009 practice tests for Skills and Processes. Print out your results to turn in. You do not need to do the BCRs.
HOMEWORK DUE:
11-3 Notes
WARM-UP: Describe one way that a phenotype can differ from a genotype.
VOCABULARY:
1) phenotype
2) genotype
3) Punnett Square
4) Gregor Mendel
5) offspring
CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Discussion of genetics terms and Punnett Squares
3) Sponge Bob Punnett Square activity (handouts)
4) Closure
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK: Go to this website www.mdk12.org/assessments/high_school/index_d.html and take the 2009 practice tests for Skills and Processes. Print out your results to turn in. You do not need to do the BCRs.
HOMEWORK DUE:
11-3 Notes
March 2 (A Day) and March 3 (B Day)
OBJECTIVE: Students will take a test in order to gauge progress towards success on the HSA.
WARM-UP: None
VOCABULARY: None
CLASSWORK:
1) Test
HOMEWORK DUE:
None
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read and take notes on 11-3
ANNOUNCEMENTS: None
WARM-UP: None
VOCABULARY: None
CLASSWORK:
1) Test
HOMEWORK DUE:
None
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read and take notes on 11-3
ANNOUNCEMENTS: None
Monday, March 01, 2010
January 26 (A Day) and March 1 (B Day)
OBJECTIVE: Students will review Unit 7 in order to prepare for the test next class.
WARM-UP: N/A
VOCABULARY: N/A
CLASSWORK:
1) Review Sheet
2) Closure
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Study for test
HOMEWORK DUE:
none
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
none
WARM-UP: N/A
VOCABULARY: N/A
CLASSWORK:
1) Review Sheet
2) Closure
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Study for test
HOMEWORK DUE:
none
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
none
February 24 (A Day) and February 25 (B Day)
OBJECTIVE: Students will compare mitosis and meiosis in order to describe how gametes are formed.
WARM-UP: How many chromosomes will be in a gamete of an organism that has 53 chromosomes in its skin cell?
VOCABULARY:
1) nondisjunction
2) recombination
3) independent assortment
4) genotype
5) phenotype
CLASSWORK:
1) Review Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Activity
3) Closure
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
none
HOMEWORK DUE:
Section Assessment
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
none
WARM-UP: How many chromosomes will be in a gamete of an organism that has 53 chromosomes in its skin cell?
VOCABULARY:
1) nondisjunction
2) recombination
3) independent assortment
4) genotype
5) phenotype
CLASSWORK:
1) Review Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Activity
3) Closure
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
none
HOMEWORK DUE:
Section Assessment
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
none
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