Thanks to middle school teacher Jennifer Leung for creating this awesome step-by-step presentation for students on their digital portfolio. There is an embedded Google Presentation and a YouTube video! Mrs. Leung is working on designing flipped class lessons as well as learning how to create screencasts and created these as an example of her learning … Continue reading Digital Portfolios: Getting Started
Final Project Reflective Blog
For my final project I learned a lot about general genetic diseases and applied my knowledge acquired over the term to figure out how genes can impact a person. I was very aware of Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria before I wrote about it for my final project, however I was not aware it was a dominant gene that … Continue reading Final Project Reflective Blog
Genetic Diseases Final
A genetic disease is that sickness you can never avoid. The question is, how many genetic diseases are there? What are some of the rarest genetic diseases and why are they rare? What is the most common genetic disease and why? There is over 6,000 genetic diseases that we are aware of, and given how … Continue reading Genetic Diseases Final
Gender and Genes
Sex-linked, sex-influenced, and sex-limited traits all affect genes differently. If a trait is sex-linked it is either carried on the X or Y chromosome. Traits that are on the Y chromosome will only affect males, since a female does not carry the Y chromosome. However if a trait is linked to the X chromosome, the … Continue reading Gender and Genes
Four Corners Activity
Before the activity I didn’t really think about anyone having access to your genes except for yourself and your doctor, however after the discussion I realized there were many troubling things about sharing your genes. For starters if you have the ability to develop some type of disease you could face discrimination, whether it be … Continue reading Four Corners Activity
Autosomal Dominant Traits
The four characteristics of autosomal dominant traits are: Affected people have an affected parent, affected people have a 50% chance of passing the trait onto offspring, males and females are equally likely to be affected, and dominant traits are usually seen in multiple successful generations. These four characteristics make perfect sense, and can be easily … Continue reading Autosomal Dominant Traits
Autosomal Recessive Traits
There are five characteristics of autosomal recessive traits; males and females are equally likely to be affected, the disease is often found in siblings, offspring of an affected person is a carrier, if a child is born to two carriers and is not affected they are â…” likely to be a carrier, and two carriers … Continue reading Autosomal Recessive Traits