Unit 7: Genetics & Heredity
Standards:
BIO 3.2.2 Predict offspring ratios based on a variety of inheritance patterns (including dominance, co-dominance, incomplete dominance, multiple alleles, and sex-linked traits).
BIO 3.2.3 Explain how the environment can influence the expression of genetic traits.
Essential Questions:
- How did Mendel's experiments contribute to the Principles of Heredity? How are these principles used to predict specific traits generation after generation?
- What common diseases are caused by inherited genes and which are mutations unique to those individuals?
- Are there any traits that are only found on the X chromosome?
- How is a trait traced through multiple generations?
- If dominant/recessive genes control flower color, then why are there so many colorful varieties?
- What determines skin, eye, and hair color? Why do these traits have a broad spectrum of varieties?
BIO 3.2.2 Predict offspring ratios based on a variety of inheritance patterns (including dominance, co-dominance, incomplete dominance, multiple alleles, and sex-linked traits).
BIO 3.2.3 Explain how the environment can influence the expression of genetic traits.
Essential Questions:
- How did Mendel's experiments contribute to the Principles of Heredity? How are these principles used to predict specific traits generation after generation?
- What common diseases are caused by inherited genes and which are mutations unique to those individuals?
- Are there any traits that are only found on the X chromosome?
- How is a trait traced through multiple generations?
- If dominant/recessive genes control flower color, then why are there so many colorful varieties?
- What determines skin, eye, and hair color? Why do these traits have a broad spectrum of varieties?
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