UNIT
OBJECTIVES
¨ DEFINE CORE TERMINOLOGY.
¨ DESCRIBE THE EXPERIMENTS OF GREGOR MENDEL.
¨ UNDERSTAND HOW SEGREGATION OF ALLELES
OCCURS.
¨ CONDUCT MONOHYBRID, DIHYBRID CROSSES.
¨ EXPLAIN HOW PROBABILITY WORKS, IN RELATION
TO GENETICS.
¨ EXPLAIN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DNA,
CHROMOSOMES AND GENES.
¨ DESCRIBE THE CHROMOSOMAL THEORY OF
HEREDITY.
¨ EXPLAIN HOW GENE LINKAGE, AND CROSSING OVER
AFFECT INHERITED TRAITS.
¨ DESCRIBE THE SEX DETERMINATION IN HUMANS.
¨ EXPLAIN HOW HUMAN HEREDITY DIFFERS FROM
MENDEL’S WORK.
¨ UNDERSTAND HOW MUTATIONS WORK.
¨ UNDERSTAND THE TYPES OF INCOMPLETE DOMINANCE.
¨ PREDICT, USING PUNNET SQUARES, HOW SAMPLE
TRAITS ARE INHERITED.
¨ DISTINGUISH BETWEEN AUTOSOMES AND SEX
CHROMOSOMES.
¨ UNDERSTAND HOW MULTIPLE ALLELES WORK USING
BLOOD TYPE AS THE EXAMPLE.
¨ EXPLAIN THE GENETIC REASONS FOR SOME OF THE
MAJOR GENETIC DISORDERS FOUND IN HUMANS.
¨ CONDUCT A LITERATURE SEARCH ON ONE GENETIC
DISORDER. OBTAIN ARTICLES PERTAINING TO THE DISORDER AND WRITE A SUMMARY OF
YOUR RESEARCH.
¨ DISCUSS SOME OF THE ISSUES INVOLVING GENETIC
ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY.
TEXT RESOURCES: PARTS OF CHAPTERS ELEVEN THROUGH FOURTEEN