First Semester
Mrs. Clearys Tiger Stars Lake Asbury Junior High School, 7E Science
Week # 17
Essential Question: How is probability related to inheritance?
Objectives:
1. Describe Mendels research with pea plants.
2. Identify the role of alleles in controlling the inheritance traits.
3. Identify dominant and recessive genes.
4. Define probability and describe how it helps explain the results of genetic crosses.
5. Explain what is meant by genotype and phenotype.
Schedule subject to change!
Day
Monday
Homework
Lessons
December 5, 2016
Vocabulary retest on Friday. Lesson 4 Meiosis as a mean of sexual
reproduction. Page 426 to 433
Chapter 12/13 test Monday. (meiosis, gametes).
Tuesday
STUDY
December 6, 2016
Mendel Lesson 2 (fertilization, allele,
purebred, hybrid, dominant and recessive
genes).
Genotype vs. Phenotype.
Practice worksheets.
Wednesday
STUDY
Lesson 3 probability and heredity
(probability, pedigree, genotype, phenotype,
homozygous, heterozygous, Punnett Square).
STUDY
Dominant vs Recessive traits Practice.
December 7, 2016
Thursday
December 8, 2016
Punnett Square practice.
Friday
STUDY
Punnett Square.
December 9, 2016
Vocabulary Test retake.