STATION 1: ONE-PAGER STUDY POCKET! Directions: 1. Take blank piece of paper 2. Fold the paper in half 3.

Staple the paper along the bottom and side to create a pocket (see sample at your station) 4. Turn your pocket into a one-pager by decorating it using these guidelines: Use all of the space Use at least three colors Use your previous daysheets and include the most important information from our genetics unit 5. Put the materials you collect from each station into your study pocket. This pocket and its contents will count for half of your test grade!

STATION 2: PUNNETT SQUARES Directions: Complete the Punnett Square practice problems below. When youve finished, hold onto this paper - fold the paper in half and put it in your study pocket once youve created it!

1. In humans, hair on fingers is dominant to no hair on fingers. Two heterozygous individuals are crossed.
Key: _____ = hair on fingers _____ = no hair on fingers Parents: ____ x ____

Answer the following questions: a. What are the possible genotypes of the offspring? b. What is the probability their child will NOT have hair on its fingers? c. What is the expected ratio of hairy fingered to hairless fingered children? 2. In chickens the allele for brown feathers (F) is dominant. The allele for red feathers (f) is recessive. A chicken (FF) and a rooster (Ff) are crossed. Key: _____ = brown feathers _____ = red feathers Parents: ____ x ____

Answer the following questions: a. What is the probability the offspring will have brown feathers? b. What is the expected ratio of brown to red chickens?

3. In daffodils, five petals (P) is dominant to three petals (p). A heterozygous flower (Pp) and a homozygous recessive (pp) flower are crossed.
Key: _____ = five petals _____ = three petals Parents: ____ x ____

Answer the following questions: a. What are the possible genotypes of the offspring? b. What is the expected ratio of plats with five petals to plants with 3 petals?

4. In humans the allele for black hair is dominant (H) and the allele for red hair is recessive (h). A homozygous dominant female and a heterozygous male are having a child. Key: _____ = black hair _____ = red hair Parents: ____ x ____

Answer the following questions: a. What are the possible genotypes of the offspring? b. What is the probability the child will have red hair? c. What is the expected ratio of black to red-haired children? 5. In Pan troglodytes (chimpanzees), the allele for a short tail is recessive and the allele for long tail is dominant. A heterozygous chimp and a short-tailed chimp are crossed. Key: _____ = Long tail _____ = Short tail Parents: ____ x ____

Answer the following questions: a. What are the possible genotypes of the offspring? b. What is the probability the offspring will have a long tail? c. What is the expected ratio of long to short-tailed offspring? 6. In elephants, the combination of small ear (s) and large ear (l) alleles produces a new phenotype that is medium ears (sl). This illustrates incomplete dominance. Fill in the Punnett Squares for each of the crosses below and then answer the questions. Two heterozygous individuals are crossed: __sl__ x __sl__

a. What is the probability an offspring of this cross will have small ears (ss)? b. What is the probability an offspring of this cross will have large ears (ll)? c. What is the probability an offspring of this cross will have medium ears (sl)? d. What is the expected ratio of small to medium to large-eared offspring?

STATION 3: GENETICS VOCABULARY Directions: 1. Work together as a team to match the word cards with their definitions 2. When you think you have the correct matches, raise your hands so your teacher can come check 3. Copy the definitions onto the Genetics Vocabulary Foldable 4. Cut along the dotted edges to create complete your foldable 5. Use your remaining time to quiz yourself using your foldable. Put your foldable into your study pocket!

STATION 4: MEIOSIS, MITOSIS, AND CHROMOSOMEs oh my! Directions: 1. Work together as a team to sort the cards into 3 piles: Mitosis, Meiosis, or Both 2. When you think you have correctly sorted your cards, raise your hand for your teacher to check 3. Copy the terms into the correct space in the Venn Diagram Below 4. When youve finished, hold onto this paper - fold the paper in half and put it in your study pocket! MITOSIS BOTH MEIOSIS

Directions: HAMMER out the question Use your 1N and 2N columns to figure out what you have and what you are trying to find Use the following rules to calculate chromosome number: 1N 2N MULTIPLY BY 2 1N 2N DIVIDE BY 2

1. If the sperm cells of a fish contain 12 chromosomes, how many chromosomes would be found in the diploid cells of that fish? A. 3 B. 6 C. 12 D. 24 2. If an organism has a diploid number of 28, how many chromosomes would be found in one of its unfertilized egg cells? A. 7 B. 14 C. 28 D. 56 3. After a mouse egg cell containing 30 chromosomes is fertilized, how many chromosomes will be in the zygote? A. 0 B. 15 C. 45 D. 60 4. Horses have 64 chromosomes in each hair cell. How many chromosomes should be in each horse gamete? A. 16 B. 32 C. 64 D. 96 5. The bromeliad flower has 100 chromosomes in each haploid pollen cell. How many chromosomes will be a bromeliad root cell? A. 25 B. 50 C. 100 D. 200 6. The species Ursus maritimus has 70 chromosomes in each somatic cell. How many chromosomes do Ursus maritimus receive from their father? A. 15 C. 70 B. 35 D. 140

STATION 5: pedigrees Directions: Use the key at the top and the pedigrees below to answer the questions = Unaffected Female = Affected Female = Unaffected Male = Affected Male

The following pedigree shows the inheritance of cystic fibrosis (CF) in a family. 1. How many females are in this family? _____ 2. How many males are in this family? _____ 3. How many affected males are in this family? _____ The following pedigree shows the inheritance of dwarfism in a family

1. How many males in this family are dwarfs? 2. How many females in this family are unaffected? 3. Is dwarfism a dominant or recessive trait? How do you know?

The following pedigree shows the inheritance of Tay-Sachs disease in a family

1. How many females are in this family? 2. How many affected females are in this family?
B

3. How many males with Tay-Sachs disease are in this family?

A

4. Is Tay-Sachs disease dominant or recessive? How do you know?

5. BONUS: T = normal

t = Tay Sachs disease

What is individual As genotype? ______ What is individual Bs genotype? ______

Directions: Wayne and Ambria are expecting their first child. They have a family history of cystic fibrosis (CF) and want to know their chances of passing the disease to their kids. Use the information below to shade in the pedigree to show the inheritance of cystic fibrosis in their family Family History Wayne has CF. Wayne has one brother and two sister. Waynes brother has CF, but his sisters do not. Neither of Waynes parents had the disease. Waynes maternal grandfather (his moms dad) had CF. Neither of Waynes paternal grandparents (his dads parents) had the disease. Ambria does not have CF. Ambria has two sisters, one of whom has CF. Neither of Ambrias parents had the disease. Ambrias maternal grandmother (her moms mom) had CF. Ambrias paternal grandfather (her dads dad) had CF. Key: = Unaffected Female = Affected Female = Unaffected Male = Affected Male

Wayne

Ambria

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Based on the pedigree you created, do you think Cystic Fibrosis is dominant or recessive? Why?

STATION 6: PRACTICE SOL TEST Directions: To receive full credit for this station use test taking strategies to answer the practice SOLstyle questions below! When you finish, check your answers with your group and with your teacher! 1. Horses have 64 chromosomes in each body cell. If a horse cell undergoes meiosis, how many chromosomes should be in each gamete? A. 16 B. 32 C. 64 D. 128 2. After an egg cell containing 16 chromosomes is fertilized, how many chromosomes will be present in the zygote? A. 8 B. 16 C. 32 D. 64 3. Which of these does not occur during meiosis? A. production of identical gametes B. production of new gene combinations C. crossing-over of homologous chromosomes D. reduction of chromosome number by one-half 4. Which of the following statements is true regarding the differences between genotype and phenotype? A. phenotype refers to the heterozygous and homozygous pairs of alleles B. phenotype determines genotype C. phenotype is the failure of homologous chromosomes to split D. genotype refers to the genes or alleles that are carried on the chromosome 5. Organisms that have two different alleles for a particular trait are said to be A. purebred B. homozygous. C. heterozygous. D. dominant. 6. Which of these is an example of a homozygous genotype? A. Rr B. RR C. wrinkled D. round 7. Which of these combinations results in the expression of a recessive trait? A. two dominant alleles B. a dominant X-linked allele and a Y chromosome C. two recessive alleles D. a dominant allele and a recessive allele

Use the information below to answer questions 9 and 10. In guinea pigs, the allele for black fur (B) is dominant. The allele for brown fur (b) is recessive. Two guinea pigs were crossed as shown in the Punnett square below.
b b

9. Which of these describes the phenotypes of the parent guinea pigs in the above cross? A. Both parents have black fur. B. Both parents have brown fur. C. One parent has black fur, and the other has brown fur. D. One parent has a mixture of black and brown fur, and the other has brown fur. 10. What is the probability that an offspring from the above cross would have brown fur? A 0% B 25% C 50% D 75% 11. In humans the allele for dimples (D) is dominant. The allele for not having dimples (d) is recessive. A woman (Dd) and a man (Dd) have four children. What are the possible genotypes of their children? A. Dd only B. DD or Dd C. DD, Dd, or dd D. dd only 12. In humans the allele for long eyelashes is dominant (L) and the allele for short eyelashes is recessive (l). A female who is heterozygous for long eyelashes and a male with short eyelashes have a child. What is the probability that their offspring will have short eyelashes? A. 0% B. 25% C. 50% D. 100% 13. How many women in the pedigree have attached earlobes? A. 0 C. 3 B. 2 D. 5 14. Which of the following best describes the inheritance of attached earlobes? A. Dominant C. Sex-linked B. Recessive D. Polygenic