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Biology
Topic: How Genes Work
Grade Level: High School
Student Lesson name and URL: How Genes Work
Standards
Addressed
High School
Science: Biology / Life
Sciences
Standards Addressed in Lesson Plan are in bold
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42 Biology/Life Sciences
Cell Biology
1. The fundamental life processes of plants
and animals depend on a variety of chemi-cal reactions that occur in specialized
areas of the organism’s cells. As a basis for understanding this concept:
a. Students know cells are enclosed within semipermeable
membranes that regulate their interaction with their surroundings.
b. Students know enzymes are proteins that catalyze
biochemical reactions without altering the reaction equilibrium and the
activities of enzymes depend on the temperature, ionic conditions, and
the pH of the surroundings.
c. Students know how prokaryotic cells, eukaryotic
cells (including those from plants and animals), and viruses differ in
complexity and general structure.
d. Students know the central dogma of molecular biology outlines
the flow of information from transcription of ribonucleic acid (RNA) in
the nucleus to translation of proteins on ribosomes in the cytoplasm.
e. Students know the role of the endoplasmic reticulum
and Golgi apparatus in the secretion of proteins.
f. Students know usable energy is captured from sunlight
by chloroplasts and is stored through the synthesis of sugar from carbon
dioxide.
g. Students know the role of the mitochondria in making
stored chemical-bond energy available to cells by completing the breakdown
of glucose to carbon dioxide.
h. Students know most macromolecules (polysaccharides,
nucleic acids, proteins, lipids) in cells and organisms are synthesized
from a small collection of simple precursors.
i.* Students know how chemiosmotic gradients in the
mitochondria and chloroplast store energy for ATP production.
j* Students know how eukaryotic cells are given shape
and internal organization by a cytoskeleton or cell wall or both.GRADES
NINE THROUGH TWELVE—BIOLOGY/LIFE SCIENCES
Instructional
Objectives
After reading the assigned
text pages as a class, students will be able to conceptualize the key
terms within the introductory context.
After studying the key terms,
students will be able to define the key terms.
After completing the 8 -1 reading
and and section 8 -1 Review Questions, students will recognize the names
of a few historical biologists who made various pioneering discoveries
regarding the structure and functions of DNA, and will be able to explain
the basics of the structure and functions of DNA.
After completing the 8 -2 reading
and and section 8 -2 Review Questions, students will be able to explain
RNA transciption and how RNA is used by the cell to make proteins.
After completing the 8 -3 reading
and and section 8 -3 Review Questions, students will be able to explain
the basics of how proteins bind to DNA to switch genes on and off.
Student
Activities
Introductory
Activity
Students will read and study
material from Chapter 8. Enabling
Activityies
Students will complete review
questions at the end of Chapter 8. Culminating
Activity
Students will complete a lab
constructing models of DNA structure, Transciption, Translation, and the
Effects of Mutation of DNA.
Assessment
Students labs are graded according
to standards of proper laboratory behavior, according to effort, and according
honesty and integrety of reporting experimental results.
Students will sit for a chapter
exam.
Results
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Web
Resources & Supplementary Materials
Introductory Activity
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and /or document files.
Enabling Activity
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TIBS: Trends in Biological Sciences
TIG: Trends in Genetics
MedLine
Students own internet searches.
Culminating Activity
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Armijo High
School (link to your school's homepage if you have one.)
824 Washington,
Fairfield, CA
Mr. Mike
Wilson MikeWi@fsusd.k12.ca.us
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Last Revised:
08/25/2000 Back to Top |
