Thursday, January 28, 2010

MENDELIAN GENETICS BOOKLET


Parents and Students:
An important project ('Mendelian Genetics Booklet') is due on Friday the 29th (tomorrow). Students should have a pink handout describing the project.


If, for some reason, students lose this handout, it is available as a PDF file here.

Our class has already spent part of three periods assembling and labeling the basic parts of th booklet. Now it's up to the student to complete this assessment!

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

LIFE'S GREATEST MIRACLE

Students watched the opening two segments of the NOVA program 'Life's Greatest Miracle' in class on Tuesday. This is helpful for understanding the special form of cell division called meiosis, and how the 'crossing-over' of chromosomes helps generate genetic variation.
You can watch it online here!


Friday, January 22, 2010

POWER POINT: MENDEL'S EXPERIMENTS


Here's the link that will take you to the Power Point containing the notes I've given in class on Mendel's experiments, probability and meiosis. The Lecture Guide (available here as a PDF file) is based upon these notes.