2024/2025 AP BIOLOGY - Unit 5: Heredity

DISCUSSION- Discuss Pedigrees
CLASS FUN: Create a Pedigree for you or a family you know (can be from a TV show)
PRACTICE: Practice Pedigrees (do this is pencil)

2) Blue People

Homework: Chapter 14: Mendel and the Gene Idea BOOK WORK due tomorrow

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Friday 1/17

Turn in Chapter 14: Mendel and the Gene Idea BOOK WORK

1) Take Progress Check 5.3 (Key) and Progress Check 5.2 on College Board (Key)

2) Practice Problems #4: Pedigrees

Homework will be to Take Section 5.2 and 5.3 Quiz

3) MULTIPLE ALLELES, POLYGENETICS, INCOMPLETE DOMINANCE, CODOMINANCE, Sex Linked

Review Terms
WATCH: Bozeman: Advanced Genetics (12 min) (Worksheet)
WATCH: Bozeman- Chromosomal Genetics (15 min) and take notes (Worksheet)

4) OVERVIEW PRACTICE: Putting it all Together- Beyond Mendel Biology Corner Practice- Non-mendelian, Multiple Alleles, Polygenic (Teacher Key)

Essential Understanding- 5.4 Non-Mendelian Genetics

5) SEX DETERMINATION

Sex Determination- WOW INTERESTING!- Listen/Watch and Take Notes 10 min

Homework: Dig deeper on ONE thing you found interesting ... research and be ready to report out after final exam break

Start Working on Ch 15 BOOK WORK (due 1/31)

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Monday 1/20- MLK Day: No School

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FINAL EXAMS

Tuesday, January 21:

7:45 to 9:15 - English

9:35 to 11:05 - Social Studies

Wednesday, January 22:

7:45 to 9:15 - Math

9:35 to 11:05 - Science

Thursday, January 23:

7:45 to 9:15 - Makeup Exams

9:35 to 11:05 - World Language

Friday, January 24: NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS (Teacher Inservice)

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Monday 1/27

Essential Understanding- 5.4 Non-Mendelian Genetics

Report Out on Sex Determination Research

Extra Practice Polygenic, Codominance, and Incomplete Dominance (do as a class, not printing)

LINKED GENES

2) Watch: Video- Bozeman: Genetic Recombination and Gene Mapping (worksheet) (10 min)

3) Gene Mapping and Recombination Frequency Practice Problems (20 min)

Gene Mapping Worksheet (key)

Chapter 15: THE CHROMOSOMAL BASIS OF INHERITANCE BOOK WORK (due 1/31)

Book Power PointClicker Questions

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Tuesday 1/28

SEX-LINKED

1) Sex Linked Traits Introduction

2) PRACTICE: Sex Linked Genes Practice (key front, key back)

3) PRACTICE: The Genetics of Blood Disorders –genetics problems that relate to specific disorders: sickle cell anemia, hemophilia, and Von Willebrand disease. (teacher key)

4) Start: Fruit Fly Lab

Old Version: Fruit Fly Lab

video: How to use FlyNap to anesthetize Drosophila melanogaster

Remember: Ch 15 BOOK WORK work due 1/31

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Wednesday 1/29

Announced Quiz: Polygenics and Gene Mapping (teacher key for #2)

FRUIT FLIES!!!!

1) Finish: Fruit Fly Lab

2) If you finish then work on Chapter 15 BOOK WORK

HWK) finish Activity 1, 2 and 3 of Fruit Fly Lab and also: Chapter 15 BOOK WORK due Friday 1/31)

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Thursday 1/30

(CALL AND ORDER Fast Gels and Transformation Lab for Unit 6)

1) REDO EXTRA CREDIT QUESTION; Review Quiz from yesterday
2) Check Activity 1-3 on Fruit Fly Lab

Complete lab TOGETHER

3) Practice Problems #2: Beyond the Basics

NON-NUCLEAR INHERITANCE

4) Non-Nuclear Inheritance Video (6 min)

5) Bozeman: Endosymbiosis (worksheet) (7 min)

Essential Understanding- 5.5 Environmental Effects on Phenotype

Epigenetics- How can Outside Factors Affect the Expression of Genes?

6) WATCH: VIDEO: Bozeman- Epigenetics (Nature vs. Nurture) (10 min) (worksheet)

7) WATCH: Clip (2 min)

8) SIMULATION: Play (Simulation)

HWK: 5.4 and 5.5 Progress Check (5.4 and 5.5 Quiz will be combined)

HWK) Chapter 15 BOOK WORK due Friday 1/31

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Friday 1/31

Turn in Chapter 15 BOOK WORK

1) Section 5.4 and 5.5 Quiz

After quiz, work on Human Chromosomal Disorders (complete on Schoology)

2) Phenotypic Plasticity

Watch: AP Biology Topic 5.5 Environmental Effects on Phenotype (11 min)

3) Research: Phenotypic Plasticity (complete digitally) in groups

Essential Understanding- 5.6 Chromosomal Inheritance

4) WATCH: Bozeman: Chromosomal Inheritance (worksheet) (11 min)

5) Take 5.6 Progress Check

Hwk: STUDY and finish Chapter 15 BOOK WORK (due Monday)

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Monday 2/3

1) 10 minutes to complete Human Chromosomal Disorders

2) Discuss:

- segregation, independent assortment of chromosomes, and fertilization result in genetic variation in populations
- pattern of transmission of genes from parent to offspring
- human genetic disorders
  - nondisjunction- mutations occurs during meiosis; fails to separate properly during anaphase
  - mutated alleles- a change in the DNA sequence within a specific gene that leads to altered protein structure; examples: sickle cell anemia, cystic fibrosis, Huntington's disease
- Mitosis and Meiosis
  - differences in mitosis and meiosis
  - differences in meiosis/gamete production between male and females

2) Take 5.6 Quiz

3) WATCH: VIDEO: Bozeman- Unit 5 Review- Genetics (worksheet) (20 min)

4) Take Unit 5 Progress Check

5) STUDY

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Tuesday 2/4

UNIT 5 EXAM- ESSAY PORTION

HWK: Chapter 16: The Molecular Basis of Inheritance BOOK WORK (Due 2/11)

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Wednesday 2/5

UNIT 5 EXAM- MULTIPLE CHOICE PORTION

Make Agar Plate for tomorrow

HWK: Chapter 16: The Molecular Basis of Inheritance BOOK WORK (Due 2/11)

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