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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:
Big Idea 1
1.15 The student is able to describe specific examples of conserved core biological processes and features shared by all domains or within one domain of life, and how these shared, conserved core processes and features support the concept of common ancestry from all organisms.
1.16 The student is able to justify the scientific claim that organisms share many conserved core processes and features that evolved and are widely distributed among organisms today.
Big
Idea 3
3.1 The student is able to construct scientific explanations that use the
structures and mechanisms of DNA and RNA to support the claim that DNA and in
some cases, RNA are the primary sources of heritable information.
3.2 The student is able to justify the selection of data from historical
investigation that support the claim that DNA is the source of heritable
information.
3.3 The student is able to describe representations and models that illustrate
how genetic information is copied for transmission between generations.
Habits of Mind/Life skills being covered: