Unit 4: Meiosis & Genetics
Weekly Syllabus
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Learning Targets
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Learning Target 24 - I can describe the process of meiosis and explain its role in genetic inheritance.
Learning Target 25 - I can compare and contrast meiosis and mitosis.
Learning Target 26 - I can identify and describe errors that may occur during meiosis and explain the ramifications of this for an organism.
Learning Target 27 - I can summarize the work of Gregor Mendel and the genetic principles that arose from that work.
Learning Target 28 - I can explain inheritance patterns that do not follow Mendel's Laws.
Answers to Various Assignments
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Punnett Square Packet - Use this to check your work on all of the different inheritance pattern problems.
Mendel's Ratios and Homologous Chromosomes - Use this to check your work on the Mendel's Pea Plant Experiments & Alleles WS.
Pedigree Problems - Use this to check your work on the Pedigree Problems WS that is separate from the larger Punnett Square Packet.
Mendel's Rule Breakers Problems - Use this to check your work on many of the inheritance patterns that do not follow Mendel's laws/principles.
Polygenics, Epigenetics, and Epistasis - Use this to check your work on the Polygenics, Epigenetics, and Epistasis Practice Problems
Linked Genes Practice Problems - Use this to check your work on the Linked Genes Practice Problems
Cell Cycle Presentation - Use for Meiosis
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Genetics Presentation
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Useful Links
Here are links to various resources that may help you understand the topics discussed during this unit. If the links are no longer valid, please let me know so that I can update them. Thank you !
Bozeman Science - Mendelian Genetics
Bozeman Science - Linked Genes, Polygenics, Sex-Linked Genes