GED SCIENCE LESSON 3
GENETICS
Competency: Examine the genetic basis of life.
Learning Objectives:
1. Distinguish between sexual and asexual reproduction.
2. Summarize the processes of mitosis and meiosis.
3. Relate the presence of DNA in cells to physical traits inherited.
Learning Activities:
___1. Read pgs. 40-41(mitosis), 50-57(DNA and Genetics) Steck-Vaughn GED Science
text and answer all the questions.
___2. Log on at killstutor.com and complete the Life Processes II and Genetics
exercises under Science I – Life Sciences.
___3 Draw a diagram to illustrate the life cycle of humans. Indicate when
and where mitosis and meiosis take place.
___5. Practice patterns of inheritance/genetics puzzles at the Windows to the Universe
Website.
dows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Life/genetics_inheritance.html
dows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Life/genetics_puzzle.html
___6. Visit Lew-Port’s Biology Place to view mitosis, meiosis, and DNA replication animations.
port.wnyric.org/jwanamaker/animations/mitosis.html - Mitosis
port.wnyric.org/jwanamaker/animations/meiosis.html -Meiosis
port.wnyric.org/jwanamaker/animations/DNA%20Replication%20-%20long%20.html - DNA replication
___7. Describe the relationship between DNA, genes, proteins, chromosomes and a
physical trait such as a cleft chin or eye color.
___8. Explain why sex cells contain half the number of chromosomes contained in body
cells.