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Standard: SB2 Analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations

Focus: Regulation of Cell Cycle and Differentiation

Chapter 10: Cell growth and division

Beginning Assignment: Write down vocabulary words

Work time:

*Notes:  Regulation of the cell cycle and differentiation

*Video:  Cancer

*Closing Activity:  Vocabulary Review

Homework: Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard: SB2 Analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations

Focus: Genetics

Chapter 11:  Introduction to Genetics

Beginning Assignment: How is the cell cycle regulated?  What consequences are there when it is not regulated properly?

Work time:

*Vocabulary Test

*Introduction to Genetics - Who was Gregor Mendel

*Worksheet and Reading:  How are traits passed down to successive generations?

*Closing Activity:  Finish Sponges

Homework: Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard: SB2 Analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations

Focus: Genetics

Chapter 10: Cell growth and division

Beginning Assignment: Describe Mendel's First Experiment

Work time:

*Finish meiosis and genetic diseases

*Sex and the Single Guppy

*Closing Activity:  Introduction to Dichotomous Keys

Homework: Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard: SB2 Analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations

Focus: Punnett Squares

Chapter 11:  Introduction to Genetics

Beginning Assignment: Vocabulary Review

Work time:

*Worksheet and Reading:  How are traits passed down to successive generations?

Homework: Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard: SB2 Analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations

Focus: Exceptions to independent assortment

Chapter 11:  Introduction to Genetics

Beginning Assignment: Study vocabulary

Work time:

*Worksheet and Reading:  How are traits passed down to successive generations?*Vocabulary Test

*Video:  Deserts

Homework: N/A

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Standard: SB2 Analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations

Focus: Predicting Traits

Chapter 11:  Introduction to Genetics

Beginning Assignment: Write down vocabulary words

Work time:

*Punnett Squares

*Codominance

*Sex Linked Traits

Homework: Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard: SB2 Analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations

Focus: Genetic Diseases

Chapter 12: DNA and RNA

Beginning Assignment: Genetics Problems

Work time:

*Genetic Diseases 1-4

Homework: Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard: SB2 Analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations

Focus: Introduction to Natural Selection

Chapter 16: Darwin's Theory of Evolution

Beginning Assignment: Compare/Contrast DNA and RNA

Work time:

*USA Test Prep

*Internet Assignment: Exploration Through Time; Understanding Evolution - Homology and Analogy

*Closing Activity: Reading - Homeostasis and Dogs

Homework: Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard: SB2 Analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations

Focus: Structure of DNA

Chapter 12: DNA and RNA

Beginning Assignment: Genetics Problems

Work time:

*Dichotomous Keys

*Genetic Diseases - Problems 5-7

*Finish Structure of DNA

Homework: Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard: SB2 Analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations

Focus: Structure of DNA

Chapter 18:  Classification

Beginning Assignment: Study vocabulary

Work time:

*Vocabulary Test

*Structure of DNA Questions

*Video: Finish Deserts

Homework: Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard: SB5 Students will evaluate the role of natural selection in the development of the theory of evolution

Focus: Introduction to Natural Selection

Chapter 16: Darwin's Theory of Evolution

Beginning Assignment: Write down vocabulary words

Work time:

*Notes:  Mutations/Protein Synthesis

*Transcription and Translation with words

*How DNA controls the workings of the cell

*Bacteria and Viruses

Homework: Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard: SB5 Students will evaluate the role of natural selection in the development of the theory of evolution

Focus: Introduction to Natural Selection

Chapter 16: Darwin's Theory of Evolution

Beginning Assignment: Endosymbiotic Theory

Work time:

*Notes: Evolution by Natural Selection

*Review of 6 Kingdoms

*Notebook Quiz

Homework: Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard: SB5 Students will evaluate the role of natural selection in the development of the theory of evolution

Focus: Introduction to Natural Selection

Chapter 16: Darwin's Theory of Evolution

Beginning Assignment: Binomial Nomenclature

Work time:

*Finish Internet Assignment: Arthropod Story, Exploration Through Time; Understanding Evolution - Homology and Analogy

*USA Test Prep

*Internet Assignment - Antibiotic Resistance (under Epidemiology)

*Notebook Quiz

Homework: Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard: SB5 Students will evaluate the role of natural selection in the development of the theory of evolution

Focus: Introduction to Natural Selection

Chapter 16: Darwin's Theory of Evolution

Beginning Assignment: Animal Symmetry

Work time:

*Pepper Moth Activity

*Antibiotic Resistance

*Classification of Animals

*Notebook Quiz

Homework: Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words

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Standard: SB5 Students will evaluate the role of natural selection in the development of the theory of evolution

Focus: Introduction to Natural Selection

Chapter 16: Darwin's Theory of Evolution

Beginning Assignment: Animal Phyla Matching

Work time:

*Vocabulary Test

*Animal Armageddon

Homework: Define, illustrate, and study vocabulary words