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BIOLOGY
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IN CLASS:
- Objective: Using your understanding of Darwin’s ideas AND modern genetics, construct a group concept map showing the connections between the major ideas in chapters 15 and 16
- Warm up: What is a gene pool? What are the two main sources of genetic variation in populations of organisms? What is the difference between a single gene trait and a polygenic trait? How might you be able to tell if a trait is controlled by multiple genes by studying a population? [5]
- Notes and individual concept maps [20]
- Group concept maps [25]
HOMEWORK: Read section 16-3
TOMORROW: Genetic Drift Simulation
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HONORS BIOLOGY
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IN CLASS:
- Objective: Using your understanding of Darwin’s ideas AND modern genetics, construct a group concept map showing the connections between the major ideas in chapters 15 and 16
- Warm up: What is a gene pool? What are the two main sources of genetic variation in populations of organisms? What is the difference between a single gene trait and a polygenic trait? How might you be able to tell if a trait is controlled by multiple genes by studying a population? [5]
- Notes and individual concept maps [20]
- Group concept maps [25]
HOMEWORK: Read section 16-3
TOMORROW: Genetic Drift Simulation
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ELD SCIENCE
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IN CLASS:
- Silent reading
- Objective: Students will work on the individual parts of their museum boxes OR mobiles.
- Project progress checkup, today through Friday
- Work on Space Summary project on computers
HOMEWORK: Come up with more content for your Space Summary project parts
TOMORROW: Work on project again, read about Earth the moon and the sun
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