Please put away cell phones and electronic devices at all times in class today
Journal Entry:
Draw a picture of a DNA nucleotide.
Learning Intentions
We will learn the history of scientists researching heritable information.
We will analyze the proof that DNA is the carrier of genetic information involved a number of important historical experiments. These include the works of Frank Griffith, Avery, McCarty and MacLeod, Hershey and Chase, and Wilkins, Franklin, Watson and Crick.
We will learn how to draw the basic structure of DNA and explain how it is copied.
We will learn how to extra DNA from your cheek cells.
Closing Task:
You can extract DNA from your cheek cells.
Content Standards being covered:
Topics:
IST-1.K Describe the structures involved in passing hereditary information
from one generation to the next.
IST-1.L Describe the characteristics of DNA that allow it to be used as the
hereditary material.
Science Practices:
1.C Explain biological concepts, processes, and/or models in applied
contexts.
Habits of Mind/Life skills being covered: