Change Over Time, Inheritance, and Genetics

Warm-ups

5/8 - Summarize these note questions for Great Transitions: The Origin of Birds (2015) 18:59 - hhmi.org

5/9 - Answer the following questions from the 7 minute video - Cladograms - Bozeman Science.

1. What is a Cladogram?

2. What is an outgroup?

3. What is a common ancestor?

4. What is Ockham's Razor/Parsimony?

5/13 - From the video clip Things You May Not Know About Evolution, list 4 things you did not know. (Mole Rats 2:40)

5/15 - Build 10 rungs of a DNA Molecule at Build a DNA Molecule - learn.genetics.utah.edu . Write down the 10 letter pairs you match as you make the rungs of DNA.

5/16 - For the following DNA strands, what nitrogen bases would pair to form the other strand of DNA?

1. CCGATAGGT

2. GTCGACTAG

3. TAACTGCAG

5/17 - From the video segments Kinesin protein walking on microtubule - youtube.com A Day in the Life of a Motor Protein - youtube.com answer the following.

What does a motor protein do?

What are the following in a nerve cell?

• Axon

• Cytoskeleton

• Microtubules

• Synapse

5/20 - From the website National Cancer Institute: Common Cancer Types - cancer.gov:

1. List at least 4 common types of cancer.

2. Research one of the common cancer types to find out: what is it, where does it occur, what increases the chances of getting it, and how common is it?

5/21 - For the following DNA strands, what nitrogen bases would pair to form the other strand of DNA?

1. TTAGCGTAC

2. GACGTCATG

3. GTACGCTAA

5/22 - What concerns do you have after watching the Trailer for Gattaca?

5/23 - For the following DNA strands, what nitrogen bases would pair to form the other strand of DNA?

1. ATAGGCCAG

2. GCGGAATTC

3. TAGGACTAT

6/3 - Look at the Observable Human Characteristics - learn.genetics.utah.edu to find some genetic traits you may have.

6/4 - Use the RNA: The Versatile Molecule - learn.genetics.utah.edu interactive to compare RNA to DNA on a Venn diagram.

6/5- Watching the video Amoeba Sisters - Protein Synthesis, describe how a cell goes from DNA to protein in 5 or 6 steps.

- For the following DNA strands, what nitrogen bases would pair to form an RNA copy? (remember RNA has Uracil instead of Thymine)

1. GGCTATCCA

2. CAGCTGATC

3. ATTGACGTC

- 4 Questions about RNAi. (2005) 15 mins - pbs.org

- Answer the following questions after watching Cloning ethics still murky 20 years after Dolly - youtube.com .

1. What are some of the concerns that have been raised by cloning?

2. How has overall public opinion changed over time?

3. What is your opinion about human clones?

- Using Journey into Human DNA - pbs.org interactive, summarize what you see in each of the 15 zooms.

- Summarize one of the sections from: Eugenics Interactive - www.dnai.org/e/

- Research some genetic testing options. (Search Terms: Genetic Testing, DNA Ancestry, Genetic Genealogy)

• 1. 1. What are some of the kits you can buy?

     2. What is the primary purpose of each?

     3. Would you want to get your genome tested with one of these kits? Why or why not?

- What do you know about Genetic Testing? What opinions do you have about it?

- From the video: Finding Home: A Sea Turtle's Life Cycle Explained (also The Survival of the Sea Turtle - Ted Ed, Sea Turtles: The Lost Years )

What is the life cycle of a sea turtle?

- Why might the Cavendish Bananas we eat go extinct? How has artificial selection produced this problem? What are possible solutions?

- If you were to breed an pet, what would it be and what traits would it have?

- Do you think hybrid animals should be considered a new species?

- Look at the different beak structures on IS page 51. Match the finch to the type of food you think it eats by information in the names and beak structure: