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Genetics Unit Introduction

• Heredity Unit Plan (jm)
• Heredity Unit Plan (jd)
• Introduction to Heredity -Notes (jd)
• This is Gladys… aw, Gladys-PowerPoint (jm)
• Heredity is the passing of traits from parents to offspring

Genes and Chromosomes

• Chromosomes_reading (jm)
• Genes and chromosomes(jm)

DNA

• DNA Video(Standard Deviants)- Notes (jd)
• Watson-Crick 1953 Paper
• Rosalind Franklin and Photo 51images(jd)

Punnett Squares

• Introducing Punnett Squares (jm)
• Punnett Squares-Notes (jd)

Alleles

• ABO Blood System(jd)
• Sickle-Cell Handout(jm)

Biotechnology

• General Information
  • Biotechnology in Massachusetts
  • An Introduction to Biotechnology
  • Recombinant DNA PPT
  • Genetic Engineering- An Introduction
  • Challenges of Teaching Biotechnology (TD)
  
  
• PV92-Alu Lab-identifiying human alleles on chromosome 16
• PV-92 Instructor Guide(Biorad)-pdf
• ALU genetics-background information for students
• PV92 Informatics- PowerPoint
• ALU Analysis Lesson Plan


• Biotechnology and Cheese: Rennet/Chymosin Lab
  • Little Miss Muffet Lab
  • Lab Manual-Cheese Lab ( Arizona State)
  • Cheese Lab PowerPoint
  • Cheese Lab-Kits-Flinn Scientific
    
• Pglo Bacterial Transformation Lab
  • pGlo Bacterial Transformation Kit- Biorad
    

Other

• Mendel's Paper (German)-Word
• A story that must be told…(PowerPoint)(jm)
• Asexual_reproduction(jm)
• Genetic disorders Extracredit( jm)
• Genetic Probabilities (jm)
• Meiosis Review Notes (jd)
• test blanks
• Genetics I- Mendel, Mitosis, and Meiosis (jm)
• Genetics II- Chromosomal Linkage(jm)
• Genetics III- Pedigrees(jm)

Below: Alexi, the Tzarevitch of Russia, who carried a defective gene for hemophilia

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