How are the terms related?

Your dragon pages are looking awesome! Today, you did self-evaluations on the baby dragon pages. These should be turned in (final beautiful draft quality) by class on Thursday.

How are all the genetic vocabulary words related? This blog post is due in a completed rough draft on Thursday.

Blog Post: Tying together key vocabulary Name: _____________
You are doing a great job in the genetic labs! The following terms have been our key vocabulary while in the labs:

DNA Chromosome Gene Allele Phenotype Genotype Dominant Recessive homozygous heterozygous

Make a sketch that includes as many words as you can...

Task: Blog post that includes:

1. Your diagram
2. A paragraph or three that describes describes the relationship of the key vocabulary words listed on this page and in your diagram. Use your baby dragon as a focus point in your writing. You know its genotype and phenotype and how the dragon received these traits. As you write, be specific. Focus on a few genes and explain these terms.

Baby Dragons

You will figure out many of the traits of your dragon, but will it be a boy or a girl? What happens with other organisms?

Bringing your dragon to life - what is its genotype and the phenotype associated with it? Please create a page to honor this baby:

Baby dragon possibilities

Dragons! Dragons! Dragons! What traits could be passed to your baby dragon?

Objective: I can predict what traits will be passed to the offspring from its parents.

Warm-Up:
Please get out your parent dragon pages and share them with a neighbor. Give each other a compliment on each page.

Review of cell division processes:



Predicting future traits...


For next class: Please complete the crosses for the dragon traits.

Parent Dragons

Today is the day that each person finds out their dragon parents. We will create the wands showing the dragon phenotype and then you will have time to create pages for these parents.

Dragon Page - For next class, look over this assignment (given to you in class) and write down any questions that you have or items that you need more information about. Your questions will be the explanation of the assignment.

Today, we also took a short assessment regarding key vocabulary. Please continue to review these words!

Dragon Traits

How many different types of dragons to you believe have existed through the ages? What did these dragons look like? What physical features make it easy to identify a type of dragon?

Today, you will begin looking at the features of dragons to prepare for their breeding. A few objectives:

Content - Associate key vocabulary of unit to various dragons. 

Language - Describe physical features of dragons

Key Vocabulary:

• Heredity

• Genetics

• Genes

• Trait

• Alleles

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• Dominant Trait

• Recessive Trait

• Offspring

• DNA

• Chromosome

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

We will spend some time going over these words. On Monday, there will be a quick check-in to see what ideas you have picked up and what words you still need to work on learning.

Support Reading: Cells & Heredity p. 101-107

A few online resources:

Practice Vocabulary

1. Memory Game
2. Dominoes: Check your understanding of genetic vocabulary
3. Variation and Traits

Review

1. Review the basic ideas of heredity.

Happy New Year!

Welcome back to AST! I hope that everyone had a restful and enjoyable break. I'm excited about the new semester and look forward to great discussions about ideas between now and June. Today, we are going to spend some time with the following:

• plotting / examining seasonal data. What happened over the first semester?
• beginning an inquiry. Where does a plant add length?
• discussing mitosis. Remember those flip books you made? What is the purpose of mitosis? What would happen if an organism could only divide cells through mitosis?

For next class, please prepare a procedure and data table for this investigation.