Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Biology 2 Unit 1

Day Starter
Objective: Students will interpret and analyze inheritance patterns in order to determine traits in offspring using a lab activity and punnett squares and the following vocabulary: dominant trait, recessive trait, genotype, phenotype, heterozygous and homozygous.

Question: 
1. Describe what determines someone's genotype and phenotype.
2. How are genes and alleles related?



Exit Ticket
Today we talked about why you look the way you do. Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph explaining this; use at least 2 of the following words in your response: heterozygous, homozygous, recessive allele, dominant allele, genotype, phenotype.