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=Stage 1 Identify Desired Results= E. The Living Environment E4 Genetics and Heredity Grades 9-Diploma** Students examine the role of DNA in transferring traits from generation to generation in differentiating cells and in evolving new species. b: Describe genes as segments of DNA that contain instructions for the cells and include information that leads to the differentiation of cells. ||
 * **Establish Goals:** **(G)** ||
 * **Maine Learning Results: Science and Technology

//What understandings are desired?//
•DNA codes for different genes which makeup the human genome. •the sorting and recombination of DNA effects heredity. ||
 * //Students will understand that:// **(U)** ||
 * •DNA controls the differentiation of cells.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
•What is DNA and how does it affect your genetic makeup? •How does the sorting and recombination of DNA nucleotides affect the heredity of an individual? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * •How does DNA control the differentiation of cells?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
•Critical Details: Mendelian genetics, DNA, RNA, genes, chromosomes. •Relationships between DNA and gene formation, cell differentiation in the human body, genes and the formation of chromosomes, impacts of DNA formation on gene expressions. || •b: Describe genes as segments of DNA that contain instructions for the cells and include information that leads to the differentiation of cells. •Make sense of how the differentiation of cells contribute to the creation of systems within the human body. •Use their current knowledge of Mendelian genetics to predict the genotype of a monohybrid cross. •Analyze how nucleotides form codons, genes, and chromosomes. •Consider the role genetics and mutagens play in the development of diseases. •Reflect on how resistance in bacteria is affected by the makeup of DNA. ||
 * //Students will know:// **(K)** || //Students will be able to:// **(S)** ||
 * •Terminology: genotype, phenotype, transcription, translation, gene, codon, cistron, amino acid, nucleotide, chromosomes, gene expressions, base pair, gamete, meiosis, mitosis, zygote.

//**2004 ASCD and** **Grant Wiggins and JayMcTighe**//