Beginning of the Second Semester!!

• Tues 1/28:  Final Exams Back and Recollect.  Start genetics.  Basic vocabulary.  Making Punnett Squares (grids) for Monohybrid and Dihybrid Crosses.  Card Simulation for Making Flowers.  Start Reading Chapter 14.
• Thurs 1/30:  Use the Chi-Squared Test to interpret results for your flower data.  Complete the work showing your Chi-Squared test results and write a brief conclusion stating what your data means.  Probability Rules and Genetics.  Epistasis, pleiotropy, multiple alleles, and polygenic inheritance.  Work on Problems 1-20 (old books) or 1-19 (new books) at the end of Chapter 14.  Clearly show your work and/or explain your thinking for each problem.  The problems are due Tues 2/4.
• Mon 2/3:  Go over Pedigrees.  Work time for genetics problems.  SPARK Lecture on Electricity today at 3:30!
• Tues 2/4:  Turn in Genetics Problems.  Chromosomal basis of inheritance.  Sex-linked genes.  Genetic testing and karyotypes.  Karyotype simulation.  Research genetic disorders.  Read Chapter 15.1 and 15.2.  
• Thurs 2/6:  Linked genes.  Gene maps.  Start Problems at the end of Chapter 15.  Problems 1-15 will be due Tues 2/11.  Read 15.3-15.4.