Module 6: Genetics

Assessment Anchors

• Describe and/or predict observed patterns of inheritance (dominant, recessive, co-dominance, incomplete dominance, sex-linked, polygenic, and multiple alleles)
• Describe the processes that can alter composition or number of chromosomes (crossing-over, nondisjunction, duplication, translocation, deletion, insertion, and inversion)
• Describe how the processes of transcription and translation are similar in all organisms.
• Describe the role of ribosomes, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus. and the nucleus in the production of specific types of proteins.
• Describe how genetic mutations alter the DNA sequence and may or may not affect phenotype (silent, nonsense, frame-shift)
• Explain how genetic engineering has impacted the fields of medicine, forensics, and agriculture (selective breeding, gene splicing, cloning, genetically modified organisms, gene therapy)

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