AP Biology: Unit 5
Heredity
Chemistry is not torture but instead the amazing and beautiful science of stuff, and if you give it a chance, it will not only blow your mind but also give you a deeper understanding of your world. - Hank Green 
Textbook— Chapters 13, 15, 16
8-11% of the AP Exam
Can you…
6.1
Describe the structures involved in passing hereditary information from one generation to the next?
Describe the characteristics of DNA that allow it to be used as the hereditary material?
6.2
Describe the mechanisms by which genetic information is copied for transmission between generations?
5.1
Explain how meiosis results in the transmission of chromosomes from one generation to the next?
Describe similarities and/or differences between the phases and outcomes of mitosis and meiosis?
5.2
Explain how the process of meiosis generates genetic diversity?
5.3
Explain how shared, conserved, fundamental processes and features support the concept of common ancestry for all organisms?
Explain the inheritance of genes and traits as described by Mendel’s laws?
5.4
Explain deviations from Mendel’s model of the inheritance of traits.
5.5
Explain how the same genotype can result in multiple phenotypes under different environmental conditions.
5.6
Explain how chromosomal inheritance generates genetic variation in sexual reproduction?
WEEKLY SCHEDULE
Week of January 27- 31
A Day
DNA/RNA Structure (6.1)
B/C Day
Unit 4 Test!
HW: DV notes 6.1-6.2
DUE: Unit 4 Personal Progress Check (MCQs+ FRQs)
D/E Day
DNA Replication Modeling activity
HW: DV notes 5.1-5.2, Meiosis TBD
DUE: DV notes 6.1- 6.2, January Field Experience
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LOOKING AHEAD…
5.3 has 3 videos! Maybe do one or more of them well ahead of the due date??? :)
Reading Ch 13.3 and 13.4 would be helpful for understanding meiosis
Week of February 3- 7
A Day
Meiosis activity (Draw out the process of meiosis using the textbook page. Label sister chromatids, nonhomologous chromosomes/tetrads, crossing over/chiasma, haploid and diploid numbers, Laws of Inheritance)
Hand out packet
HW: 5.3 DV Notes (3 videos— chi-sq notes from the last video are optional, but prob still a good watch as review), work on packet
DUE: 5.1-5.2 DV Notes (Grace period until D/E Day)
B/C Day
DNA Structure and Replication Activity
Work on Packet
HW: 5.4 DV Notes, work on packet
D/E Day
Work on Packet
Notes: Nondisjunction/Chromosomal Mutations, Plasmids
HW: 5.5 DV notes, Plasticity example Google slide, work on packet
**DUE: 6.1-6.2, 5.1-5.4 DV Notes**
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Week of February 10- 14
A Day
Meiosis and Replication Quiz
Review Environmental Plasticity slides
Work on Packet
DUE: 5.5 DV Notes
HW: 5.6 DV Notes (two videos), work on packet
B/C Day
Work on Packet
DUE: 5.6 DV Notes
HW: work on packet
D/E Day
Unit 5 Test?!?!
Unit 5 Test FRQ (Meiosis and/or DNA Structure and Replication)
Heredity stations
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LOOKING AHEAD…
Winter break this weekend!
Next week is C Day, D Day, A Day.
You must take the Unit 5 Test MCQs on A day, Friday, 2/21, next week