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Friday - Homework Tonight (#3) Use the links below to videos for the project extensions or go straight to the YouTube playlist for "Building a Best Friend"
Extension F: Artificial Selection of the American Peach Bottom right, p. 110. TITLE & DATE.
After watching the video link for extension F, answer the following questions about peaches.
- What country do peaches originally come from?
- What are the differences between a wild peach and a peach grown on a farm by
artificial selection?
- What do you call a peach with no fuzz?
- What percent of peaches in the USA are from artificial selection?
Please put Extensions G-J on page 112. Design this page with the intentions of having four sections, one section for each extension. Title & date each section.
Extension G: Watch the entire video by Mark Drollinger and copy the Venn diagram. Please add one example of each type of reproduction to the diagram. Use the top left quadrant, p. 112. TITLE & DATE.
Extension H: Watch the entire video by Michael Flood and copy down advantages and disadvantages of asexual reproduction. Use the top right quadrant, p. 112. TITLE & DATE.
Extension I: Click on the image found below in the BBC doc or on ASPEN and read then copy down notes on advantages of sexual reproduction. (Bottom left quadrant, p. 112). TITLE & DATE.
Extension J: Watch the video by biol1003 and copy down notes on disadvantages of sexual reproduction. Use the bottom right quadrant, p. 112). TITLE & DATE.
Find links and updates at the GlynnSTEM Blog or the GlynnSTEM Primitive Website. Direct link to Building a Best Friend Info here.
Use the links below to videos for the project extensions or go straight to the YouTube playlist for "Building a Best Friend"
Extension C: Natural Selection vs. Artificial Selection.
(p. 110 Under Extension B, top left)
After watching the video on natural selection vs. artificial selection please take organized notes on the all of the information provided in the video. Make sure to write neatly, use underlines or highlighters to make titles/main words pop in your notes. If examples are given remember to include these too! TITLE & DATE.
Extension D: Wild Wolves to Man’s Best Friend
After watching the video for extension D, please answer the following questions on page 110 of your ISN, top right quadrant. Please make sure the notes are detailed and clear. Don’t be afraid to restate prompt or draw pictures to help support your work. TITLE & DATE.
- How did wolves turn into dogs?
- What type of selection did humans use to do this?
- What were Labradors breed for (purpose)?
- What were Greyhounds breed for (purpose)?
- What were Pekingese dogs breed for (purpose)?
Extension E: How the dog has changed over the last 100 years.
After watching the video link for extension E, pick 2 dogs you like the most and explain 2 ways that each have problems due to selective breeding (artificial selection). (Try to do 2 dogs that your friend/classmate did not do!) Include their name and 2 problems for each dog. Use the bottom left quadrant, p. 110. TITLE & DATE.
Building a Best Friend
Title for page 110: BBF Extensions A-E.
Title for page 111: Building a Best Friend
See the YouTube Playlist "Building a Best Friend" for Extension videos.
Homework Tonight:
Don’t lose Assignment Directions (handed out in class)
Secure Ownership Card (p.111 FLIP - leave room underneath for other stuff and notes) (handed out in class)
Finish Watching Today’s Video (Dogs and More Dogs, NOVA, on YouTube)
NEW: Watch Learn Biology: How to Draw a Punnett Square
Complete Punnett Square Practice squares (handed out in class).
Secure to the top left corner of page 110 as shown in class (ALLOW IT TO FLIP UP). Don't forget your title and dates!
There is plenty to see online. Within the syllabus schedule are several interactive extensions, videos, and readings that are helpful to understanding genetics. It is the toughest subject you'll face this year but that doesn't mean you should just accept defeat! Check out some of the links. At the very least, try some of the videos like Punnett Squares for Beginners and similar. Need another look at a dihybrid cross? Check here!
Totally lost? Make it short! The concise version: Everything you need to know in 3 minutes
If you still cannot access stuff online, you really need to see me!
from Monday in class:
Cells & Heredity text books
1. Read sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 (pages 80-85, 88-93, 96-100) in class
2. Answer questions: all checkpoints and review for each section (3.1=6 Qs, 3.2= 7Qs, 3.3=7Qs). PASS THESE IN at end of class today. Include NAME, DATE, LABEL SECTIONS, TITLES.
3. Page 109 in notebook: draw the following vocab, fully colored: trait, purebred, hybrid, dominant, recessive, allele, phenotype, genotype, homozygous, heterozygous, gene, probability. A, B,C,D of science drawing... don't forget title and date.
If all of this is done, complete the work form Thursday and Friday: Dragon Feathers Sim, Purple People Eater Sim and Practice, Mendel Experiments (p. 108), Give Peas a Chance due by Wednesday.
Work in class: students borrow books in class. They have text books assigned to them that they are supposed to leave at home. If they carry their own texts with them they shouldn't be leaving them behind in class. Likewise, they shouldn't be leaving the room with an extra book- we will run out of books!
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