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