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  • Unit 5: Heredity
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2025/2026 AP BIOLOGY
  • Home
  • Unit 1: Chemistry of Life
  • Unit 2: Cell Structure and Function
  • Unit 3: Cellular Energetics
  • Unit 4: Cell Communication and Cell Cycle
  • Unit 5: Heredity
  • Emergency Sub Plans
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    • Unit 1: Chemistry of Life
    • Unit 2: Cell Structure and Function
    • Unit 3: Cellular Energetics
    • Unit 4: Cell Communication and Cell Cycle
    • Unit 5: Heredity
    • Emergency Sub Plans

Unit 5: Heredity

Friday 12/19

  • Cell phones away in door holder, need to be on a Chromebook

UNIT 4 TEST Essay Portion

Unit 4 Multiple Choice Portion

Homework- Chapter 13: Meiosis and Sexual Life Cycles BOOK WORK  due 1/7

Chapters: 13 MEIOSIS AND SEXUAL LIFE CYCLES

Book Power Point

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Monday 1/5

Essential Understanding- 5.1 Meiosis

  1.  Introduction to Unit 5- Check Out Unit Guide 

  2. Watch video: Bozeman- Cell Cycle, Mitosis and Meiosis (video worksheet) (14 min) 

  3. Watch video: Bozeman- Haploid vs. Diploid (Video Worksheet) (9 min) 

  4. Quizlet Live- Diploid vs Haploid

  5. POGIL: Meiosis (teacher's key) 

  6. Take Progress Check 5.1 on College Board

Homework: Chapter 13: Meiosis and Sexual Life Cycles BOOK WORK  due 1/7

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Tuesday 1/6

  1.  Take Section 5.1 Quiz

Look Over and Discuss Essays from Unit 4

Question 1

Question 2

Question 3

Question 4

Question 5

Essential Understanding- 5.2 Meiosis and Genetic Diversity

  1. Activity: Exercise 3B: Simulating Meiosis- Crossing Over Bead Activity (Follow Along with Bozeman) (12 min) 

  • Bead Worksheet (Crossing-over & Chromosome Aberrations) project and do as class

  1.  Watch: Video - Bozeman: Mechanisms that Increase Genetic Variability (video worksheet) (12 min)

  2. Meiosis/Mitosis/Cell Cycle Check In (Key) - complete digitally

HWK: Chapter 13: Meiosis and Sexual Life Cycles BOOK WORK  due 1/7

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Wednesday 1/7

DUE TODAY- Chapter 13: Meiosis and Sexual Life Cycles BOOK WORK 

  1. 10 minutes in groups to complete: Meiosis/Mitosis/Cell Cycle Check In (Key) - complete digitally

  2. Look Over and Discuss Essays from Unit 4

Question 1

Question 2

Question 3

Question 4

Question 5

  1. Bozeman: AP Biology Lab 3: Mitosis and Meiosis (video worksheet) (7 min) 

  2. Lab: Investigation:  Meiosis in Sordaria

  • The Sordaria Cross (8 min)

  • Sordaria Cross Pictures

Homework: Start Completing Chapter 14: Mendel and the Gene Idea BOOK WORK  (due 1/13)

  • Chapter 14: MENDEL AND THE GENE IDEA
  • Book Power Point
  • Clicker Questions

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Thursday 1/8

Essential Understanding- 5.3 Mendelian Genetic

  1. Talk about yesterday's lab

  2. Review of Protein Synthesis (we will cover in more detail in Unit 6)

  3. VIDEO: Bozeman- Genotypes & Phenotypes (video worksheet) 13min  

  4. Go over 6 possible crosses and Hand out Review/Refresher Sheet   

  5. phenotypic and genotypic ratios flash card races

  • Genotype Card Printouts

  1. Practice Problems 1: Basic Mendelian Genetics - DO not do #6 unless we get to shortcut

Chapter 14: Mendel and the Gene Idea BOOK WORK  due 1/13

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Friday 1/9

  1. WATCH: VIDEO: Bozeman- Mendelian Genetics (video worksheet) 16min  

  2. Discuss use of Fast Plants in AP Biology Labs

  • Fast Plant Simulation Worksheet

  1. Dihybrid Cross Practice (complete on notebook paper, not printing) 

  2. WATCH: VIDEO: Bozeman- Probability in Genetics (worksheet) 11min 

  3. Practice Problems #3: Probability and Stat (Key)

  4. PRACTICE: Beyond Dihybrids- Using Statistics (Key)


SKIPPING: POGIL: The Statistics of Inheritance  (print) and make sure you're working on Chapter 14

HWK: Complete: Practice Problems #3: Probability and Stat (Key) and complete the font of: Beyond Dihybrids- Using Statistics (Key) 

also- be working on: Chapter 14: Mendel and the Gene Idea BOOK WORK  due 1/13

"What's my Grade?" Calculator

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Monday 1/12

Homework Check

  1. Finish: Beyond Dihybrids- Using Statistics (Key) 

  2. Varsity Tutors Practice Problems

  3. PEDIGREES.

  • 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) 

  1. DIDN'T Get TO: Blue People

  • Read Blue People Article

  • SKIPPED: Blue People Genetics 

  • The Fugates Explained (6 min) 

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

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Tuesday 1/13

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

  1. Discuss the The Fugates 

  2. Practice Problems #4: Pedigrees

Essential Understanding- 5.4 Non-Mendelian Genetics

  1. MULTIPLE ALLELES, POLYGENETICS, INCOMPLETE DOMINANCE, CODOMINANCE, Sex Linked

  • Review Terms

  • WATCH: Bozeman: Advanced Genetics (12 min) (Worksheet) 

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

  1. Take Progress Check 5.3 and Progress Check 5.2 on College Board

Homework: Start Working on Ch 15 BOOK WORK (due 1/27) and complete: Putting it all Together- Beyond Mendel Biology Corner Practice- Non-mendelian, Multiple Alleles, Polygenic (Teacher Key)

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Wednesday 1/14

  1. Take Section 5.2 and 5.3 Quiz

Essential Understanding- 5.4 Non-Mendelian Genetics

  1. WATCH: Bozeman- Chromosomal Genetics (15 min) and take notes (Worksheet)  

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

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

LINKED GENES

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

  2. Gene Mapping and Recombination Frequency Practice Problems (20 min)

  • Gene Mapping Worksheet (key)

SEX DETERMINATION

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

  2.  Dig deeper on ONE thing you found interesting ... research and be ready to report out tomorrow Report Out on Sex Determination Research

Chapter 15: THE CHROMOSOMAL BASIS OF INHERITANCE BOOK WORK  (due 1/27)

Book Power PointClicker Questions

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Thursday 1/15 (substitute) 

SEX DETERMINATION

  1. Report Out on Sex Determination Research from yesterday with your friends

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. Watch: How to use FlyNap to anesthetize Drosophila melanogaster

  5. Start: Fruit Fly Lab

Remember: Ch 15 BOOK WORK work due 1/27

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Friday 1/16 (Substitute)

FRUIT FLIES!!!!

  1.  Finish: Fruit Fly Lab

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

HWK)  finish Fruit Fly Lab and also: Chapter 15 BOOK WORK due Tuesday 1/27

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Monday 1/19 (MLK Day) 

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FINAL EXAMS!

Tuesday 1/20-engligh, social studies

Wednesday 1/21- science and math

Thursday 1/22-makeup

Friday- 23- no kids

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Monday 1/26 

  1.  Cheek in on how the Fruit Fly Lab went, turn in if you're ready (you can also submit tomorrow) 

  2. Review Gene Mapping

  • there will be a quiz tomorrow (you will also have a CollegeBoard quiz... so 2 quizzes in one day)

  1. Practice Problems #2: Beyond the Basics  

NON-NUCLEAR INHERITANCE

  1. Non-Nuclear Inheritance Video (6 min)

  2. Bozeman: Endosymbiosis (worksheet) (7 min)  

Essential Understanding- 5.5 Environmental Effects on Phenotype

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

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

  1. WATCH: Clip (2 min) 

  2. 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 tomorrow

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Tuesday 1/27

Turn in Chapter 15 BOOK WORK  

  1.  Announced Quiz: Polygenics and Gene Mapping (teacher key)

  2. Section 5.4 and 5.5 Quiz

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

  1. Phenotypic Plasticity

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

  1. Research: Phenotypic Plasticity  (complete digitally) in groups

  2. WATCH: Bozeman: Chromosomal Inheritance (worksheet) (11 min)  

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Wednesday 1/28

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

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

4) Take Unit 5 Progress Check

5) STUDY

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Thursday 1/29

UNIT 5 EXAM-  ESSAY PORTION 

HWK: Chapter 16: The Molecular Basis of Inheritance BOOK WORK (Due __)

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Friday 1/30

UNIT 5 EXAM-  MULTIPLE CHOICE PORTION 

Make Agar Plates for Monday

HWK: Chapter 16: The Molecular Basis of Inheritance BOOK WORK (Due __)

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