Standard Area - MST:
Math, Science & Technology
- Standard - MST4: Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.
- Key Idea Code - MST4.LE:
- Key Idea - MST4.LE2: Organisms inherit genetic information in a variety of ways that result in continuity of structure and function between parents and offspring.
- Academic Level - MST4.I.LE2:
- Performance Indicator - MST4.I.LE2B: Students describe simple mechanisms related to the inheritance of some physical traits in offspring.
- Major Understandings - 2.2a : In all organisms, genetic traits are passed on from generation to generation.
- Major Understandings - 2.2b : Some genes are dominant and some are recessive. Some traits are inherited by
mechanisms other than dominance and recessiveness.
- Major Understandings - 2.2c : The probability of traits being expressed can be determined using models of
genetic inheritance. Some models of prediction are pedigree charts and Punnett squares.
