In this unit students will...
- Discuss the relationship between DNA, genes, amino acids, and proteins
- Explain the processes of transcription and translation
- Create a model of a polypeptide chain after transcribing a gene
- Identify various types of mutations and predict how each type will impact the subsequent protein
- Draw connections between meiosis, DNA replication, transcription/translation, and genetics
- Perform a monohybrid and dihybrid cross to predict the expected ratios of offspring produced by two individuals
- Identify inheritance patterns that fall outside of simple Mendelian inheritance patterns
- Incomplete dominance
- Codominance
- Multiple alleles
- Sex(X)-linked
- Apply the rule of multiplication and addition to solve advanced genetics problems
- Construct a pedigree to display the inheritance pattern of a particular trait within their family
- Analyze pedigree data in order to identify the type of inheritance pattern that is being tracked
- Predict the genotypes of individuals from a pedigree and apply to genetics problems
- Apply the chi-square test to a data set to determine whether or not observed ratios of offspring are statistically different from the expected ratios