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Learning Area: Biotechnology (Second Quarter) Key Stage: Grade 8

Facilitators:

Most Essential Learning

Specific Objectives EASY AVERAGE DIFFICULT
Competencies
Differentiate traditional 1. define biotechnology (Analyze)
biotechnology from modern A. Which of the following
biotechnology statements best describes
biotechnology?
a. Biotechnology is the study
of life and its processes.
b. Biotechnology is the use of
living organisms or
compounds from living
organisms to produce
products that are useful to
man.
c. Biotechnology is the use of
living things to be
processed in the
laboratories to make new
products.
d. Biotechnology is the use of
techniques to manipulate
all living things in
producing valuable
products.
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2. identify the different branches (Remembering)

of biotechnology A. It is the branch of
biotechnology which
encompasses processes in the
marine and aquatic
environments such as
controlling the proliferation of
noxious water-borne
organisms.
a. Blue Biotechnology
b. Gray Biotechnology
c. Green Biotechnology
d. Red Biotechnology

B. The white or gray

biotechnology
involves_____________
a. in agriculture and
processes as to the
development of pest-
resistant grains and
accelerated evolution of
disease-resistant animals.
b. all medical procedures
such as utilizing
organisms to produce
novel drugs.
c. various industrial
processes such as the
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production of new
chemicals or the
development of new fuels
for vehicles.
d. various techniques in
controlling the spreading
of diseases in bodies of
water.
3. trace the historical events that (Remembering)
paved way to the development A. In 1928, he discovered
of Biotechnology as a branch penicillin by accident when
of Biology fungus, Penicillium notatum
had contaminated a culture of
Staphylococcus bacteria.
a. A. Justin
b. Alexander Fleming
c. Gregor Mendel
d. Louis Pasteur
B. They were the first to apply
direct fermentation in
producing beers.
a. Babylonians and
Sumerians
b. Egyptians
c. Greeks
d. Romans
4. differentiate traditional
biotechnology from modern
(Applying)
A. Which is the correct
arrangement of the historical
events that paved the way in
the development of
biotechnology? (oldest to the
most recent)
a. Domestication-
Vaccination-
Pasteurization-Cloning
b. Vaccination-
Pasteurization-Cloning-
Domestication
c. Domestication-
Pasteurization-Cloning-
Vaccination
d. Cloning-Pasteurization-
Vaccination-
Domestication
(Analyze) SOLO Framework
A. Which of the following can A. Aling Maria wants to produce
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biotechnology be considered as an example
of modern biotechnology?
a. Brewing beers
b. Making cheese from
carabao’s milk
c. Selective breeding of
plants and animals
d. Inserting a gene from
one organism to a
bacterial DNA.
Code and Meaning:
a. Unistructural (1point) Your
b. Relational (3points) Your
“kesong puti’ from carabao’s
milk, unluckily there is no
supply of milk from their
farm, can Aling Maria used
the commercialized milk?
a. Yes, the commercialized
milk could produce curds
too.
b. No, carabao’s milk has the
property to produce lactic
acids that will help to
ferment it and produce the”
kesong puti”.
c. Yes, the commercialized
milk has good bacteria.
d. Maybe because milk is one
of the ingredients used in
making “kesong puti”.
response has the idea about
the process of how kesong
puti will be produced
(curdling)
response is correct because of
the idea that fermentation uses
microorganism’s activity that

5. familiarize oneself with the key (Understanding)
personalities involved in the
propagation of the field of
Biotechnology
B. The double helix structure of
Discuss techniques or practices 1. chronologically arrange the
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will produce desirable change
in food. and make a new
product.
c. Unistructural (1point) Your
response has the idea which
relate the role of bacteria in
fermentation.
d. Unistructural (1point) Your
response says that to make
kesong puti there must be
milk.
A. Herbert Boyer: ________-
Edward Jenner: smallpox
vaccine
a. in vitro recombination
b. insulin
c. pasteurization
d. selection
the DNA (Deoxyribonucleic
Acid) was proposed by
_______
a. Ian Wilmut
b. James Watson
c. Karl Ereky
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used in traditional
biotechnology (cheese, soy
sauce, vinegar making, nata de
coco, etc.)
Identify commonly used
microbes in biotechnology
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steps/ processes involved in
cheese and soy sauce making
2. perform the preliminary
processes needed in preparing
homemade white cheese or
“kesong puti” and soy sauce
making
3. perform activities which show
similar process in making cheese
and soy sauce; and
4. appreciate the importance of
fermentation in food technology
by writing an essay about its
significance.
5. identify alcoholic fermentation
and its process used in traditional
biotechnology;
6.  perform a simple method of
alcoholic fermentation in making
vinegar, nata de coco, and some
other examples; and
7. value the importance of
alcoholic fermentation on the food
and beverages industry.
1. identify the parts of bacterial,
yeast, and bacteriophages cells
2. describe the function of the
parts of bacterial, yeast, and
bacteriophages cells
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3. explain the role of bacteria,

yeasts, and bacteriophages in
Biotechnology
4. appreciate the importance of
microorganisms in our lives
Analyze the vital role of DNA, 1. identify the results of the
RNA and proteins in the different experiments that led
transmission of hereditary to the discovery of the role
traits and structure of DNA
2. describe the structure of the
nucleic acid
3. perform a simple DNA
extraction method using
household materials.
4. describe how DNA is packed
inside the nucleus in the form
of chromosome
5. appreciate the role of the
DNA in the transmission of
hereditary traits.
6. describe the process of DNA
replication
7. identify each type of RNA and
compare it with DNA
8. simulate protein synthesis;
and
9. appreciate the preciseness of
cellular activities particularly
DNA replication

Explain how mutation in DNA
affects an individual
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10. protein synthesis in
maintaining the unique
characteristic of every
organism.
1. describe the different types of
mutation;
2. identify the causes of mutation
3. describe the different
chromosomal aberrations and
some genetic disorders;
4. appreciate the importance of
determining how mutations
affect an organism.
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