Biology Unit 1 Day 5

Learning Objective: Students will learn about patterns of inheritance by doing a genetics activity in partners and will analyze and interpret their data in writing using technical vocabulary (phenotype, genotype, independent assortment, dominant allele, recessive allele) and science ideas (patterns of change).

Questions:

1. What characteristics or traits are not inherited? (book or brain)
2. When might cloning be a good idea? (book or brain)
3. A plant can have either brown (B) or red (b) leaves. Brown is the dominant trait. If a plant has genotype Bb, which best describes the plant?

Answer choices for number 3:
	A. Homozygous with red leaves B. Heterozygous with red leaves C. Homozygous with brown leaves D. Heterozygous with brown leaves

Exit Ticket for Day 5:

• What did we do in today's learning activity? (summarize)
• Today we learned about ____________________ by ....
• How did this learning activity connect to the other activities this unit? 
• This learning activity was about ________________ it connected to other activities because ....