Standards:
SC.912.L.16.16 Describe the process of meiosis, including independent assortment and crossing over. Explain how reduction division results in the formation of haploid gametes or spores. Moderate
SC.912.L.16.17 Compare and contrast mitosis and meiosis and relate them to the processes of sexual and asexual reproduction and their consequences for genetic variation. High
SC.912.L.16.1 Use Mendel's laws of segregation and independent assortment to analyze patterns of inheritance. High
SC.912.L.16.2 Discuss observed inheritance patterns caused by various modes of inheritance, including dominant, recessive, co-dominant, sex-linked, polygenic, and multiple alleles. High
Objectives:
1. Students can explain the process of meiosis, its effect on genetic variation, and the advantages and disadvantages of sexual reproduction.
2. Students understand Mendel's laws of segregation and independent assortment.
3. Students understand the role of dominant and recessive alleles of a gene and the impact of incomplete dominance, co-dominance, sex-linked genes, multiple alleles, and polygenic traits.
4. Students can use a Punnett square to predict the probability of an organism inheriting a specific genotype and phenotype.
Essential Questions:
1. What are the advantages of sexual reproduction over asexual reproduction?
2. How do genes influence the variety of organisms that exist?
Vocabulary:
crossing over, genetic linkage, carrier, sex-linked gene, X chromosome inactivation, incomplete dominance, codominance, polygenic traits, linkage map, pedigree, karyotype
