DISCIPLINE: BIOLOGY

UNIT CONTENT: GENETICS

ATL: Information literacy skill and communication skill

Essential Question: How does biological information pass from one generation to another?

Learning Objectives
 Compare meiosis and mitosis in terms of their purpose and their end product.
 Understand that meiosis results in infinite genetic variety in gametes through crossing over and
independent assortment.
 Define genetics
 Determine how information pass from parents to their offspring
 Calculate and predict the genotypic and phenotypic ratio of offspring of monohybrid and dihybrid
crosses.
 State Mendel’s laws of genetics.
 Describe Mendel’s experiment using the pea plant.

ASSIGNMENT FOR UNIT 7:

UNIT VOCABULARY: You are responsible for knowing these definitions by the end of the unit DUE
AFTER EASTER HOLIDAY.
WORD DEFINITION

Meiosis

Homologous

Crossing over

Diploid

Haploid

Gamete

Fertilization

Zygote

Genetics
Trait

Gene

Allele

Dominant

Recessive

Homozygous

Heterozygous

Phenotype

Genotype

Punnett Square

Probability

Independent Assortment

Co-Dominance

Filial generation

Test cross

Back cross