Monday (11/4): Introduction to first inheritance pattern: Complete dominance/recessive. Practiced inheritance vocabulary: Gene, Allele, Genotype, Phenotype, Homozygous, Heterozygous. Practice with Punnett squares. Handouts: Albino Genetics, Inheritance Patterns Notes #1.
Tuesday (11/5): Introduce family pedigree and reviewed Huntington's disease (Dominant example) and Cystic Fibrosis (Recessive example). Practice reading and analysing pedigrees for dominant and recessive traits. Handouts: Unfortunate Family Pedigree, Blank Pedigrees, Pedigree Analysis.
Wednesday (11/6): Finish up Complete Dominance/recessive inheritance pattern. Introduction to Incomplete Dominance Pattern. Create a baby lab. Handouts: Create a Baby lab
Thursday (11/7): Introduction to blood types and multiple alleles. Completed 'were the babies switched?' worksheet. Extra time: reviewed for quiz.
Friday (11/8): Took Quiz 1. See Mr. deVos if you have not taken it to schedule a time.
Tuesday (11/12): Discussed blood transfusion. Completed blood typing lab to solve paternity issue. Discussed + and - blood types.
Wednesday (11/13): Finished discussing blood types. Genotyped blood types in unfortunate family pedigree. Reviewed concept: Dominance/recessiveness does not affect how common a trait is. Began sex linked trait discussion and hemophilia.
Tuesday (11/5): Introduce family pedigree and reviewed Huntington's disease (Dominant example) and Cystic Fibrosis (Recessive example). Practice reading and analysing pedigrees for dominant and recessive traits. Handouts: Unfortunate Family Pedigree, Blank Pedigrees, Pedigree Analysis.
Wednesday (11/6): Finish up Complete Dominance/recessive inheritance pattern. Introduction to Incomplete Dominance Pattern. Create a baby lab. Handouts: Create a Baby lab
Thursday (11/7): Introduction to blood types and multiple alleles. Completed 'were the babies switched?' worksheet. Extra time: reviewed for quiz.
Friday (11/8): Took Quiz 1. See Mr. deVos if you have not taken it to schedule a time.
Tuesday (11/12): Discussed blood transfusion. Completed blood typing lab to solve paternity issue. Discussed + and - blood types.
Wednesday (11/13): Finished discussing blood types. Genotyped blood types in unfortunate family pedigree. Reviewed concept: Dominance/recessiveness does not affect how common a trait is. Began sex linked trait discussion and hemophilia.