Topics in this unit include:

-genes

-gene expression

    -dominant recessive

    -incomplete dominance

    -sex-linked genes

    -co-dominance

-genetic disorders

-pedigrees

Essential Questions

• 1. How do the events of meiosis contribute to the person’s genotype?

  2. How does a person’s genotype give rise to their phenotype?

  3. How will different patterns of inheritance influence the phenotype of an individual?

  4. How can you use a Punnett square to predict the phenotypes and genotypes of the offspring or parents?

  5. How can you use a pedigree to track disorders through generations of a family?

  6. How does the environment affect gene expression?

  7. Why can actual results of a genetic cross differ from what is expected?

  8. How can blood type be predicted using genes?

  9. How can someone’s blood type affect which blood types are safe to transfuse?

  10. How can blood type testing be done in a lab?

Learning Targets

Learning Target #1:  We will  determine the relationship between genotype and phenotype.

Learning Target #2:  We will compare the different types of genotypes.

Learning Target #3:  We will  relate the events of meiosis to an organism’s genotype.

Learning Target #4:  We will apply the law of dominance to genetic scenarios.

Learning Target #5:  We will use punnett squares to predict the phenotypes and genotypes of offspring using the law of dominance.

Learning Target #6:  We will use punnett squares to predict the phenotypes and genotypes of offspring using codominance.

Learning Target #7:  We will use punnett squares to predict the phenotypes and genotypes of offspring using incomplete dominance.

Learning Target #8:  We will use punnett squares to predict the phenotypes and genotypes of offspring using blood typing.

Learning Target #9:  We will use punnett squares to predict the phenotypes and genotypes of offspring using sex-linked inheritance.

Learning Target #10:  We will analyze and identify examples of pleiotropy, linked genes, and polygenics.

Learning Target #11:  We will use punnett squares to predict the phenotypes and genotypes of offspring in a dihybrid cross.

Learning Target #12:  We will determine genotypes and patterns of inheritance on pedigrees.

Learning Target #13:  We will use punnett squares to predict the phenotypes and genotypes of offspring using blood typing.

Learning Target #14:  We will analyze real life versus expected results.

Learning Target #15:  We will determine which blood to donate based on blood type.

Learning Target #16:  We will identify the blood type of a person based on immune system results and explain why it occurs.