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Science and Technology and Engineering Education
- Standard Area - 3.1: Biological Sciences
- Organizing Category - 3.1.B: Genetics
- Course - 3.1.B.B: BIOLOGY
PATTERNS
Describe how Mendel’s laws of segregation and independent assortment can be observed through patterns of inheritance.
Distinguish among observed inheritance patterns caused by several types of genetic traits (dominant, recessive, codominant, sex-linked, polygenic, incomplete dominance, multiple alleles)
CONSTANCY AND CHANGE
Explain how the processes of replication, transcription, and translation are similar in all organisms. Explain how gene actions, patterns of heredity, and reproduction of cells and organisms account for the continuity of life.
SCALE
Demonstrate how inherited characteristics can be observed at the molecular, cellular, and organism levels.
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Assessment Anchor - BIO.B.1
Cell Growth and Reproduction
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Anchor Descriptor - BIO.B.1.1
Describe the three stages of the cell cycle: interphase, nuclear division, cytokinesis.
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.1.1.1 Describe the events that occur during the cell cycle: interphase, nuclear division (i.e., mitosis or meiosis), cytokinesis.
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.1.1.2 Compare and contrast the processes and outcomes of mitotic and meiotic nuclear divisions.
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Anchor Descriptor - BIO.B.1.2
Explain how genetic information is inherited.
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.1.2.1 Describe how the process of DNA replication results in the transmission and/or conservation of genetic information.
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.1.2.2 Explain the functional relationships among DNA, genes, alleles, and chromosomes and their roles in inheritance.
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Assessment Anchor - BIO.B.2
Genetics
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Anchor Descriptor - BIO.B.2.1
Compare and contrast Mendelian and non-Mendelian patterns of inheritance.
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.2.1.1 Describe and/or predict observed patterns of inheritance (i.e., dominant, recessive, co-dominance, incomplete dominance, sex-linked, polygenic, and multiple alleles).
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.2.1.2 Describe processes that can alter composition or number of chromosomes (i.e., crossing-over, nondisjunction, duplication, translocation, deletion, insertion, and inversion).
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Anchor Descriptor - BIO.B.2.2
Explain the process of protein synthesis (i.e., transcription, translation, and protein modification).
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.2.2.1 Describe how the processes of transcription and translation are similar in all organisms.
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.2.2.2 Describe the role of ribosomes, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, and the nucleus in the production of specific types of proteins.
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Anchor Descriptor - BIO.B.2.3
Explain how genetic information is expressed.
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.2.3.1 Describe how genetic mutations alter the DNA sequence and may or may not affect phenotype (e.g., silent, nonsense, frame-shift).
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Anchor Descriptor - BIO.B.2.4
Apply scientific thinking, processes, tools, and technologies in the study of genetics.
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.2.4.1 Explain how genetic engineering has impacted the fields of medicine, forensics, and agriculture (e.g., selective breeding, gene splicing, cloning, genetically modified organisms, gene therapy).
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