Overall Expectations of Genetic Processes Unit
1.evaluate the importance of some recent contributions to our knowledge of genetic processes, and analyse social and ethical implications of genetic and genomic research.
2. investigate genetic processes, including those that occur during meiosis, and analyse data to solve basic genetics problems involving monohybrid and dihybrid crosses. 3.demonstrate an understanding of concepts, processes, and technologies related to the transmission of hereditary characteristics. |
Specific Expectations of Genetic Processes Unit to be Covered:
D1.1 analyse, on the basis of research, some of the social and ethical implications of research in genetics and genomics
D1.2 evaluate, on the basis of research, the importance of some recent contributions to knowledge, techniques, and technologies related to genetic processes
D2.1 use appropriate terminology related to genetic processes
D2.3 use the Punnett square method to solve basic genetics problems involving monohybrid crosses, incomplete dominance, codominance, dihybrid crosses, and sex-linked genes
D2.4 investigate, through laboratory inquiry or computer simulation, monohybrid and dihybrid crosses, and use the Punnett square method and probability rules to analyse the qualitative and quantitative data and determine the parent genotype
D3.3 explain the concepts of genotype, phenotype, dominance and recessiveness according to Mendelian laws of inheritance
D1.2 evaluate, on the basis of research, the importance of some recent contributions to knowledge, techniques, and technologies related to genetic processes
D2.1 use appropriate terminology related to genetic processes
D2.3 use the Punnett square method to solve basic genetics problems involving monohybrid crosses, incomplete dominance, codominance, dihybrid crosses, and sex-linked genes
D2.4 investigate, through laboratory inquiry or computer simulation, monohybrid and dihybrid crosses, and use the Punnett square method and probability rules to analyse the qualitative and quantitative data and determine the parent genotype
D3.3 explain the concepts of genotype, phenotype, dominance and recessiveness according to Mendelian laws of inheritance
Big Ideas in Mendelian Genetics:There are predictable patterns in the transmission of genetic information for parents to offspring.
We can use monohybrid and dihybrid crosses to visually demonstrate and predict the probability of the inheritance of specific traits by an offspring. |
Guiding Questions for Mendelian Genetics:Can we predict patterns in inheritance of traits from parents to offspring?
What are the laws that accompany inheritance patterns? What methods can we use to demonstrate patterns in inheritance? |
Genetic Disorders Outline:
This unit can be broken down into four topics as listed below. These topics can be used as a framework to develop comprehensive lessons around them as demonstrated using the sub-tabs. For a detailed guide of what each topic entails and lesson ideas, please refer to the sub-tabs within this section
- Basic Genetics
- Patterns of Inheritance
- Monohybrid Cross
- Dihybrid Cross