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Biology - EC: BIO.B.2.2.2

Biology - EC: BIO.B.2.2.2

Continuum of Activities

Continuum of Activities

The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.

This continuum of activities offers:

  • Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
  • Questions/activities that grow in complexity
  • Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance

Activities

 

  1. The site of protein synthesis is what organelle?

  2. What organelle contains the instructions to make proteins?

  3. What molecule contains the instructions to make proteins?
  1. In cells, the instructions to make proteins must travel from the nucleus to what organelle? Explain the path.

  2. If ribosomes were removed from a cell, what process would be most affected and why?

  3. Identify 2 cellular organelles that are necessary for protein synthesis in the cell and explain each organelle’s function.
  1. Explain the connection between Cell, DNA, and Proteins.

  2. A cell could make a defective protein. Explain two different sources of the error.

Answer Key/Rubric

  1. Ribosome

  2. Nucleus

  3. DNA
  1. Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:

Nucleus to the endoplasmic reticulum, to the ribosome.

  1. Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:

Protein synthesis because the ribosome reads the mRNA and assembles the amino acids into a protein.

  1. Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:
  • Nucleus: stores the DNA; is the site of transcription
  • Ribosome: the site of translation; reads the mRNA and assembles the protein.
  1. Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:
  • Cells contain DNA that has the directions for making proteins.
  1. Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:
  • There could be a mutation within the DNA
  • Amino acids could be missing
  • Problem making the mRNA
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