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Unit Learning Objectives for Unit 5 - Heredity from the AP® curriculum
Explain how meiosis results in the transmission of chromosomes from one generation to the next.
Describe similarities and/or differences between the phases and outcomes of mitosis and meiosis.
Explain how the process of meiosis generates genetic diversity.
Explain how shared, conserved, fundamental processes and features support the concept of common ancestry for all organisms.
Explain the inheritance of genes and traits as described by Mendel’s laws.
Explain deviations from Mendel’s model of the inheritance of traits.
Explain how the same genotype can result in multiple phenotypes under different environmental conditions.
Explain how chromosomal inheritance generates genetic variation in sexual reproduction.
AP Exam Exclusion Statement: The details of sexual reproduction cycles in various plants and animals are beyond the scope of the course and the AP Exam.
Textbook Resources
Textbook Resources
Chapter 10 - Full Text
10.1.ppt10.2.ppt10.3.pptChapter 10.4 Meiosis Compared to Mitosis
Chapter 10.4 Meiosis Compared to Mitosis
Learning Outcomes
Contrast changes in chromosome number, genetic variability, and number of daughter cells between meiosis and mitosis.
Distinguish the events that occur during prophase I of meiosis that do not occur during prophase of mitosis.
Compare chromosome alignment during meiosis I to mitosis
Resources
10.4.ppt10.5.pptChapter 10.6 Changes in Chromosome Number and Structure
Chapter 10.6 Changes in Chromosome Number and Structure
Learning Outcomes
Distinguish between euploidy and aneuploidy.
Explain how nondisjunction can cause monosomy and trisomy aneuploidy.
Describe human diseases caused by changes in the number of sex chromosomes.
Examine how changes in chromosome structure can lead to human diseases.
Resources
10.6.pptChapter 11 Full Text pages 187 - 204
Chapter 11.2 Mendel's Laws
Chapter 11.2 Mendel's Laws
Learning Outcomes
Explain Mendel's law of segregation.
Compare and contrast dominant alleles with recessive alleles and their relation to genotype and phenotype.
Use a Punnett square and the law of probability to predict the chances of producing gametes and offspring.
Demonstrate how a pedigree may be used to determine the model of inheritance of a genetic trait.
Resources
11.2.ppt11.3.pptChapter 11.4 Beyond Mendelian Patterns of Inheritance
Chapter 11.4 Beyond Mendelian Patterns of Inheritance
Learning Outcomes
Explain the inheritance pattern of traits when more than two alleles for the trait exist.
Contrast incomplete dominance and incomplete penetrance.
Describe the effects of pleiotropy on phenotypic traits.
Explain the concept of polygenic and multifactorial traits.
Understand how X-linked inheritance differs from autosomal inheritance.
Resources
Textbook pages 198 - 204
Outline
Slides
11.4.pptSupplemental Reading Environmental Effect on Phenotype
Supplemental Reading Environmental Effect on Phenotype
Learning Outcomes
Explain the inheritance pattern of traits when more than two alleles for the trait exist.
Contrast incomplete dominance and incomplete penetrance.
Describe the effects of pleiotropy on phenotypic traits.
Explain the concept of polygenic and multifactorial traits.
Understand how X-linked inheritance differs from autosomal inheritance.
Resources
5.5 environmental effects.pptxAssessments Unit 5
Assessments Unit 5
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