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Heredity StudyJam

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Title:

Heredity StudyJam

URL:

https://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/human-body/heredity.htm

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Type:

Audio/Video

Overview:

Ever wondered how you ended up with your eye color? The answer is all about heredity.

Heredity is the passing of traits, or features, from parents to offspring through genes. Genes, which are found inside cells, are shared from one generation to the next, passing on all kinds of characteristics like eye color, dimples, freckles, and height.

This classroom resource provides a video that describes the process of inherited traits. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short test to assess their understanding. This resource can provide background information to students before they construct and use their own models.

Content Standard(s):

Science
SC2015 (2015)
Grade: 7
Life Science

12 ) Construct and use models (e.g., monohybrid crosses using Punnett squares, diagrams, simulations) to explain that genetic variations between parent and offspring (e.g., different alleles, mutations) occur as a result of genetic differences in randomly inherited genes located on chromosomes and that additional variations may arise from alteration of genetic information.

Unpacked Content

Scientific And Engineering Practices:

Developing and Using Models

Crosscutting Concepts: Cause and Effect

Disciplinary Core Idea: Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits

Evidence Of Student Attainment:

Students:

Identify and describe the relevant components of the model.
Develop a model for a given phenomenon involving the variations that arise between parent and offspring as a result of randomly inherited genes and alteration of genetic material.
Use a model to explain a given phenomenon involving the variations that arise between parent and offspring as a result of randomly inherited genes and alteration of genetic material.

Teacher Vocabulary:

Punnett square - monohybrid cross
Homozygous and Pure
Heterozygous and
Hybrid
Homologous
Dominant
Recessive
Models
Genetic variation
Parent
Offspring
DNA
Genes
Inheritance
Allele
Variation
Mitosis (introduced in Standard 2; use here for comparison to Meiosis)
Meiosis
Chromosome
Mutation
Probability
Gregor Mendel
Mendel's laws
Sexual reproduction
Asexual reproduction
Sperm
Egg
Zygote

Knowledge:

Students know:

Chromosomes are the source of genetic information.
Organisms reproduce, either sexually or asexually, and transfer their genetic information to offspring.
Variations of inherited traits from parent to offspring arise from the genetic differences of chromosomes inherited.
In sexual reproduction, each parent contributes half of the genes acquired (at random) by the offspring.
Individuals have two of each chromosome, one acquired from each parent; therefore individuals have two alleles (versions) for each gene. The alleles (versions) may be identical or may differ from each other.

Skills:

Students are able to:

Construct a model for a given phenomenon involving the differences in genetic variation that arise from genetic differences in genes and chromosomes and that additional variations may arise from alteration of genetic information.
Identify and describe the relevant components of the model.
Describe the relationships between components of the model.
Use the model to describe a causal account for why genetic variations occur between parents and offspring.
Use the model to describe a causal account for why genetic variations may occur from alteration of genetic information.

Understanding:

Students understand that:

During reproduction (both sexual and asexual) parents transfer genetic information in the form of genes to their offspring.
Under normal conditions, offspring have the same number of chromosomes (and genes) as their parents.
In asexual reproduction: Offspring have a single source of genetic information and their chromosomes are complete copies of each single parent pair of chromosomes. Offspring chromosomes are identical to parent chromosomes.
In sexual reproduction: Offspring have two sources of genetic information that contribute to each final pair of chromosomes in the offspring because both parents are likely to contribute different genetic information, offspring chromosomes reflect a combination of genetic material from two sources and therefore contain new combinations of genes that make offspring chromosomes distinct from those of either parent.

AMSTI Resources:

AMSTI Module:
Studying the Development and Reproduction of Organisms

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards

AAS Standard:
SCI.AAS.7.12- Compare and contrast traits of animal parents and their offspring (e.g., eye color, hair/fur color, size); recognize that variations between parents and offspring are the result of randomly inherited genes; recognize that genes are located on chromosomes which are found in the cells of living things.

Tags:

gene, heredity, inherited traits, learned behavior, offspring, parent

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Comments

The test may be completed as a whole group or independently on student devices.

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Author:

Hannah Bradley

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Heredity StudyJam