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Big Idea:
Big Idea:
Student Expectations:
Student Expectations:
Main Ideas
Main Ideas
Big Idea 3: Information - Living systems store, retrieve, transmit and respond to information essential to life processes.
Big Idea 4: System - Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions possess complex properties
Enduring Understanding
Enduring Understanding
3.C: The processing of genetic information is imperfect and is a source of genetic variation.
Essential Knowledge
Essential Knowledge
3.C.3: Viral replication results in genetic variation, and viral infection can introduce genetic variation into the hosts.
Student Learning Targets:
Student Learning Targets:
Viruses & Bacteria
- The components of a virus.
- The difference between lytic and lysogenic cycles.
DNA Technology and Genomics
- The terminology of biotechnology.
- The steps in gene cloning with special attention to the biotechnology tools that make cloning possible.
- The key ideas that make PCR possible.
- How gel electrophoresis can be used to separate DNA fragments or protein molecules.
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
- How do viruses differ from bacteria?
- Why are viruses considered not living?
- What is PCR & Gel Electrophoresis?
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