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Week #18

Modern Genetics

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✅ Student To Do List #18

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  • 📗 Read Pages 192 - 198
  • Watch: “What Are Genes?” (4:25)
  • Watch: “What Are SNPs?” (2:00)
  • TEAM TIME: Gummy Bear LAB
  • Turn in Gummy 🐻 Bear LAB (Due on Tue)
  • 📗 Read Pages 199 - 203
  • Complete 🥼DEMO #18
  • 🧑🏻‍💻 Begin January Genetics WebQuest
    • Due next Tue
  • 📗 Read Pages 205 - 210
  • 🔦 Explore → Johns Hopkins
  • Watch: What are phenotypes?”(2:03)
  • 🎬 Ghost in Your Genes Film.
  • Continue work on 🧑🏻‍💻WebQuest

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Week #18 - Modern Genetics

Lesson Plan Breakdown

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Lesson #1

Lesson #2

Lesson #3

1. 📗Read Pgs 192-198

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2. “What are Genes?”

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3. “What are SNPs?”

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4. 🫛 Mendel’s Limits

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5. 🧸Finish Gummy Bear LAB

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1. 📗Read Pgs 199-203

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2. “Where do your genes come from?”

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3. 🥼 DEMO #18 - LAB Tour.

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4. “The genes…can’t live without.”

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5. 🔦 Johns Hopkins

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6. 🧑🏻‍💻Start Jan Genetics WebQuest.

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1. 📗Read Pgs 205-210

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2. “What are phenotypes?”

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3. Ghost in your genes

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🟢 = Start of a New Science Lesson

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Happy New Year 🥳 → TEAM TIME

Work together to complete all 3 pages. ☸️ Use your Codon Wheel for pages 1 & 2.

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This is for review, it is not graded.

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Read Pages

192 - 198

Lesson #1

Starts Here!

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Review Part 1

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“What Are Genes?”

(4:25) by 23andMe

A gene is a piece of DNA that contains code (for mRNA ; traits) and most humans have approximately 20,000 - 25,000 genes per body cell.

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Review Part 2

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“What Are SNPs?”

(2:00) by 23andMe

A SNP is a Single Nucleotide Polymorphism. They are important because they serve as genetic markers and help us understand individual variations.

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→ Genomic variant at a single base position

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🫛 Mendel’s Limits

  • Mendel’s experiments with pea plants looked at one gene for one trait.
    • This pattern of inheritance is called Mendelian.
      • Some examples: Cheek dimples, face freckles & cleft chins
      • Tom Brady→

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Mendel's work has limits because it primarily focused on simple traits controlled by single genes with clear dominant and recessive relationships.

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Polygenic Traits

  • Most human traits are polygenic, which means they are controlled by multiple genes.
    • This leads to a wide array of phenotypes.
    • Simple Punnett squares don’t work for polygenic traits.
      • EX: Human height & eye color.

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TEAM TIME

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After reading,

work on Gummy Bear LAB

  • Finish Punnett Squares
  • Then, Work on CER
  • LAB Due on Tue

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Read Pages

199 - 203

Lesson #2

Starts Here!

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Review

Part 3

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“Where do your genes come from?”

(4:21) by 23andMe

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DEMO #18

LAB tour

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Alex Dainis

Palm Springs 2023

Science Conference

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Science communicator Alex Dainis makes videos that teach about lab spaces, equipment & phenomena (and so much more).

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🔦 Spotlight: Johns Hopkins

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“The overarching goal of the Department of Genetic Medicine is to integrate genetics into all of medicine”

Baltimore, MD, USA

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BEGIN

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January Genetics

WebQuest

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Refer to GC for instructions.

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“The Genes You Do Not Get From Your Parents (but…”

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(5:03)

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by TED Ed

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October 2021

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Read Pages

205 - 210

Lesson #3

Starts Here!

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Review

Part 4

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“What are phenotypes?”

(2:03) by 23andMe

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Watch & Work

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While watching this film in class, you may continue working on your 🧑🏻‍💻WebQuest and/or

Cheat Sheet.

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CONTINUE

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January Genetics

WebQuest

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Refer to GC for instructions.