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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Daily Summary 04-04

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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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