Galva High School and Stark County High School
Integrated Science Curriculum
Year 3: Theme - Grand DesignsVI. Cellular Reproduction and Heredity Unit
A. Laws of Heredity
B. Meiosis
- Mendel
- Lecture: Mendel (GB, p. 260)
- MiniLab: "Looking at pollen" (GB, p. 43)
- Monohybrid crosses
- Rule of dominance
- Law of segregation
- Phenotypes and genotypes
- Internet BioLab: "How can phenotypes and genotypes of plants . . ." (GB, p. 47)
- Lab 10-2: "What phenotypic ratio is seen in a dihybrid cross?" (GB, pp. 71-74)
- Dihybrid crosses
- Law of independent assortment
- Investigation 10-1: "Dihybrid cross studies" (HBJ Bio, pp. 51-52)
- Punnett squares and Probability
- Activity 6-A: "Laws of probability" (SFB Lab, pp. 41-44)
- Acitvity 7-A: "A study in population genetics (SFB Lab, pp. 53-56)
- Activity: Chromosomes & genetics (HBJ Bio, pp. 35-36)
- Activity: Fundamentals of genetics (HBJ Bio, pp. 31-32)
C. DNA and genes
- Genes, chromosomes and numbers
- (GB, p. 270)
- Investigation 11-2: "Investigating human chromosomes" (HBJ Bio, pp. 55-57)
- Lab 11-1: "Chromosome extraction and analysis" (GB Lab, pp. 75-78)
- Phases of meiosis
- Lab 10-1: "Observation of meiosis" (GB, p. 69)
- MiniLab: "Modeling crossing over" (GB, p. 45)
- Genetic variation
- Mistakes in meiosis
- (GB, p. 280)
- (GB, p. 282)
D. Patterns of heredity
- DNA: The molecule of heredity
- DNA structure
- DNA structure (GB, p. 289)
- Demo: DNA isolation (Flinn Fax, Vol. 01-2, Biology Edition)
- Investigation 12-1: "DNA model" (HBJ Bio, p. 59)
- DNA replication
- From DNA to protein
- RNA structure
- Transcription
- Investigate BioLab: "RNA transcription" (GB, pp. 53-56)
- Genetic code
- (GB, p. 297)
- Translation
- MiniLab 11-1: "Transcribe & translate" (GB, pp. 49-50)
- Lab 13-2: "DNA sequencing" (GB Lab, pp. 95-98)
- Genetic changes
- Mutations in DNA
- Genetic Code
- (GB, p.297)
- Translation
- MiniLab 11-2: "Gene mutations and proteins" (GB, p. 51)
- Chromosomal mutations
- (GB, p. 305)
- (GB, p. 306)
- Causes of mutations
- Lab 11-2: "Isolating mutants" (GB Lab, pp. 79-82)
E. Genetic technology
- Inheritance of human traits
- Making a pedigree
- (GB, p. 316)
- (GB, p. 317)
- MiniLab 12-1: "Illustrating a pedigree" (GB, p. 57)
- Activity 7-B: "Using pedigrees to study human traits" (SF Bio, pp. 57-60)
- Activity: "Interpreting pedigrees" (HBJ Bio, pp. 42-43)
- Activity 17A: "An inherited trait" (Science Probe)
- Recessive heredity
- Dominance in heredity
- MiniLab 12-2: "Detecting colors and patterns in eyes" (GB, p. 58)
- Heredity follows different rules
- Complex patterns of inheritance
- (GB, p. 324)
- Environmental influences
- Complex inheritance
- Incomplete dominance
- Lab 12-1: "Determination of genotypes from phenotypes . . ." (GB, pp. 83-86)
- Codominance
- Multiple alleles
- (GB, p. 332)
- (GB, p. 333)
- Lab: "ABO/Rh simulated blood typing kit" (Flinn BioFax, cat. no. FB1225)
- Sex-linked traits
- Investigation 13-2: "A human pedigree" (HBJ Bio, pp. 65-68)
- Polygenic inheritance
- Changes in chromosomal numbers
- Lab 12-2: (GB, p. 87)
- (GB, p. 336)
- Cytoplasmic inheritance
- BioLab: "What is the pattern of cytoplasmic inheritance?" (GB, pp. 59-60)
F. Performance assessment: "Genetic diseases"
- Applied genetics
- Selective breeding
- Detecting genotypes
- (GB, p. 347)
- Lab 13-1: "Making test crosses" (GB Lab, p. 91-94)
- Recombinant DNA technology
- Genetic engineering
- (GB, p. 351)
- Investigate BioLab: "Modeling recombinant DNA" (GB, pp. 65-66)
- Lab: "Paper genetic engineering"
- Applications of DNA technology
- (GB, p. 355)
- (GB, p. 362)
- MiniLab 13-1: "Matching restriction enzymes to . . ." (GB, pp. 61-62)
- Human genome
- Mapping and sequencing the human genome
- (GB, p. 358)
- MiniLab 13-2: "Storing the human genome" (GB, pp. 63-64)
- Applications of human genome project
- Lab 13-2: (GB, p. 95)
- (GB, p. 361)