Materials to study:
- The power point slides that I posted on the blog for you (mitosis, meiosis, mendelian genetics, and advanced genetics)
- Your notes that you took while I was giving the lectures that correspond to the above mentioned power-point slides
- The workbook, pages 77-100
- The videos posted on the blog, watch them again! They have a lot of great information.
- The cell division coloring packet and the DNA coloring packet
- Any homework, classwork, or quizzes that I have handed back to you.
- Neok12.com quizzes on cell division and genetics
Topics:
- Why is mitosis important to single celled eukaryotic cells?
- Why is mitosis important to multi-celled organisms?
- What is interphase? It is part of the cell cycle, but not part of mitosis. What happens during interphase.
- List the stages of mitosis and what happens in each. Draw a picture of an animal cell in each of the stages.
- Mitosis is the division of the cell's nucleus. How does the cytoplasm divide?
- How many cells with how many chromosomes are produced at the end of mitosis?
- How many chromosomes do human body cells have?
- Can bacteria undergo mitosis? Why or why not?
- Why is sexual reproduction important to diversity, survival of species, and evolution?
- Where does meiosis happen in animals? In plants?
- Describe the stages of meiosis I and meiosis II. Which stage are the really important differences in? How many cells with how many chromosomes does meiosis I make? How many cells with how many chromosomes does meiosis II make?
- Why is it important for sex cells to have half as many chromosomes as body cells?
- What is the production of eggs called? How many eggs are made? What is the production of sperm called? How many sperm are made?
- What is independent assortment?
- What is crossing over?
- Who was Gregor Mendel? Why is he so famous? What did he do that others before him did not?
- What is meant by mendelian genetics? The study of traits coded for by one gene that exists as only 2 alleles with one dominant and one recessive. This is "simple" genetics.
- Punnett Squares! Practice. Be sure to be able to set up a cross and then determine the probably of an offspring having a certain genotype or phenotype.
- Advanced genetics: Polygenetic inheritance. What type of traits are coded for by many genes? Things that you see a range in; hair color, skin color, eye color, height.
- If given a data set, plot the data in a histogram and determine if the trait is likely to be controlled by more than 1 trait.
- Box plots.
- incomplete dominance, remember the flowers and the cows.
- Multiple alleles- Blood Type, A, B, and O. Can have genotype AO, AB, AA, BB, BO, OO and phenotype, A, B, O, or AB (A and B are codominant, O is recessive)
- DNA, what does it stand for? What is it made out of? Twisted ladder, the sides of the ladder are __________________ and the rungs of the ladder are ____________________________
- Where does DNA stay?
- What is RNA, what does it stand for? How is it different from DNA?
- What are the 3 types of RNA and what do they do?
- What are Amino Acids? the building blocks of proteins
- Practice coding from DNA to mRNA to tRNA to AA
- How are the different types of cells in our body different if they all have the same DNA?
- What can happen if the DNA in a body cell is damaged? Can this be passed on to babies?
- What happens if DNA in a sex cell is damaged?
