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S7L3      Genetics   

Selective & Artifical Breeding
Lab Aids
StemScopes: 
Genetics and Probability
GSE Science Standard S7L3. 
Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to explain how organisms reproduce either sexually or asexually and transfer genetic information to determine the traits of their offspring.
a. Construct an explanation supported with scientific evidence of the role of genes and chromosomes in the process of inheriting a specific trait.
b. Develop and use a model to describe how asexual reproduction can result in offspring with identical genetic information while sexual reproduction results in genetic variation. (Clarification statement: Models could include, but are not limited to, the use of monohybrid Punnett squares to demonstrate the heritability of genes and the resulting genetic variation, identification of heterozygous and homozygous, and comparison of genotype vs. phenotype.)
c. Ask questions to gather and synthesize information about the ways humans influence the inheritance of desired traits in organisms through selective breeding. (Clarification statement: The element is specifically in reference to artificial selection and the ways in which it is fundamentally different than natural selection.)

GSE Math ​MGSE7
MGSE7.SP.6 Approximate the probability of a chance event by collecting data on the chance process that produces it and observing its long-run relative frequency. Predict the approximate relative frequency given the probability.  For example, when rolling a number cube 600 times, predict that a 3 or 6 would be rolled roughly 200 times, but probably not exactly 200 times.
MGSE7.SP.7 Develop a probability model and use it to find probabilities of events. Compare experimental and theoretical probabilities of events.  If the probabilities are not close, explain possible sources of the discrepancy.

Unit Resources from a variety of genetic resources.  Sources are indicated within each resource.
  1. NC State genetics unit - Exploring Genetics is an excellent resource with Science and Math genetic activities
  2. Poker Chip Genetics student resource  and Answer Key
  3. Plant Genetics. & Plants have genes too activity from LabAids 
  4. Modeling Mendel - NC state
  5. Blood typing - resource from Greg Ford and Sherrice Henderson
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  • CowanScience
  • Earth Systems
    • Space
    • Unit 1 Systems and Cycles
  • Honors Biology
    • Basics of Biology
    • SB1 - Biochemistry
    • SB1 Cells
    • Photosynthesis & Respiration
    • SB 2 Cell Reproduction
    • SB 2 DNA and Protein Synthesis
    • SB3: Genetics
    • SB4 Domains of Life
    • SB5 - Ecology
    • SB6: Evolution
    • Viruses
    • EOC Milestone
  • AP Biology
    • AP Test Resources
  • MSP - PBL
    • Biology >
      • EOC Milestone
      • EOC Milestone
      • SB4 Domains of Life
      • SB3 Energy Transformation
      • Basics of Biology
      • SB1 Cells
      • SB 2 DNA and Protein Synthesis
      • EOC Milestone
      • SB1 - Biochemistry
      • SB2 Genetics
      • EOC Milestone
      • SB 2 Cell Reproduction
      • SB2 Genetics >
        • SB2 Genetics
    • 6th Grade MSP >
      • 6SE1 Space
      • 6SE2 - Sun, Earth, Moon
      • S6E3 - Water
      • 6SE4 - Weather and Climate
      • S6E5 Geosphere
      • S6E5d, e, h Erosion
    • Seventh Grade >
      • S7L1 Classification
      • S7L5 - Evolution & fossils
      • S7L3 Genetics
      • S7L4 Ecology