Unit 3 - Genetics & Meiosis

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Unit Outcomes

  • Understand the main genetics vocabulary

  • Understand how to make and read a Pedigree as well as determine what type of inheritance a pedigree is showing

  • Understand Incomplete Dominance, Co-Dominance, sex linked traits, multiple alleles and polygeneic inheritance

  • Understand how the environment can influence genetic traits

  • Know how to use a Punnett Square to predict the ratio of traits past on to offspring.

  • Understand how to conduct a Karyotype and what types of diseases can occur due to chromosome number issues

  • Understand how chromosomes can mutate (Duplication, Deletion, Inversion, Translocation)

  • Understand Genetic Diversity and it's importance

  • Be able to use and calculate using a chi Square analysis