Biology Unit 1 Day 2

Learning Objective: Students will learn about inheritance patterns by conducting an investigation and will analyze and interpret their data in writing using technical vocabulary (genotype, phenotype, dominant allele, recessive allele, genetic diversity).

Questions:

1. Why are some genes more common than others? (brain)
2. What is genetic diversity? (book or brain)
3. In a certain cat, long whiskers (W) are dominant and short whiskers (w) are recessive. Two cats have genotypes Ww and ww. If they have an offspring with short whiskers, what is the genotype of their offspring?

Answer choices for number 3:
	A. WW B. Ww C. ww D. wW Exit Ticket for Day 2:  What did we do in today's learning activity? (summarize) Why did we do this learning activity? (analyze)