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Genotype Phenotype Lab: Overview

Students will participate in a lab to learn about human genotypes and phenotypes by documenting their own traits and genetic makeup. They will determine if traits are dominant, recessive, or codominant by compiling class-wide results and analyzing ratios. Objectives include understanding how genes govern physical traits, learning one's own genotype for several traits, and distinguishing dominant from recessive alleles to determine phenotypes from genotypes. Standards address recognizing trait types, distinguishing dominant and recessive alleles, and illustrating inheritance patterns over generations.

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Genotype Phenotype Lab: Overview

Students will participate in a lab to learn about human genotypes and phenotypes by documenting their own traits and genetic makeup. They will determine if traits are dominant, recessive, or codominant by compiling class-wide results and analyzing ratios. Objectives include understanding how genes govern physical traits, learning one's own genotype for several traits, and distinguishing dominant from recessive alleles to determine phenotypes from genotypes. Standards address recognizing trait types, distinguishing dominant and recessive alleles, and illustrating inheritance patterns over generations.

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GenotypePhenotypeLab

Overview:
Duringclasstodaystudentswilllearnabouthumangenotypesandphenotypesby
participatinginalabdesignedtoshowhowtraitsareexpressedviagenes.Theywillself
documentseveraloftheirphenotypesaswellastheirpossiblegenotypes.Wewillthencompile
aclasscharttoshowhowdifferentproportionsofphenotypesinapopulationshowgeneticists
ifanalleleisdominant,recessive,orcodominant.Theywillthenbegiventimetoanswer
questionsaskedattheendofthelab.

Objectives:

Studentswillunderstandbetterhowtheirphysicaltraitsaregovernedbytheirgenes.

Studentswillknowtheirgeneticmakeupforseveraltraits.

Studentswillseehowdifferentratiosrepresentedinapopulationscumulative
phenotypeshowgeneticistswhetherthetraitisdominant,recessive,orcodominant.

Studentswillbeabletoabletodistinguishbetweendominantandrecessivealleles.

Studentswillbeabletodeterminethephenotypethatresultsfromagivengenotype.

Standards:
LS.12Recognizethattraitscanbestructural,physiologicalorbehavioralandcaninclude
readilyobservablecharacteristicsattheorganismallevelorlessrecognizablefeaturesatthe
molecularandcellularlevel.

LS.12Distinguishbetweendominantandrecessiveallelesanddeterminethephenotypethat
wouldresultfromthedifferentpossiblecombinationsofallelesinanoffspring.

LS.12Describedominant,recessive,codominant,sexlinked,incompletelydominantand
recessivealleles,punnettsquares,traits,andillustratetheirinheritancepatternsovermultiple
generations.

Materials:
Studentanswersheet,labguidesheet,whiteboard,PTCpaper.

Lesson:
LabIntroduction[5min]
oFirst,Iwillexplainhowthelabwillworkforthestudents,andhowitrelatesto
humangeneticsandtopicscoveredinpreviouschapters.WhiledoingthisIwill
handoutthePTCtastestrips.
oPhenotypesareourtraitsandtheexpressionofourgenesorourgenotypes.
oDominantalleleswillexpresstheirtraitsandmaskarecessivealleleiftheyare
pairedtogether.
oIttakestworecessiveallelesfortherecessivetraittobeexpressed.

oWecanlookatyourphysicaltraitsanddeterminewhetherthedominantor
recessivetraitisbeingexpressed.Ifthedominanttraitisshownweknowyou
haveoneoftwogenotypes.Iftherecessiveconditionisshown,weknowyou
mustbehomozygousrecessiveforthetrait.
PTCtastingtrait[10min]
oOnceIvehandedoutthePTCpaperIwillexplainthatifthestudentstaste
somethingsouronthepapertheyarepositiveforPTCtastinggeneandiftheytaste
nothingtheyarenegativeforthegene.
oIwillthenshowthemhowtofilloutthechartontheiranswersheetusingthePTC
tastinggeneasanexample.
GenotypePhenotypeLabworktime[15min]
oNextIwillhavethemgetintopartnerstorunthroughthelabwhichincludesseveral
othertraits.
oTheywillrecordtheirfindingsonachartincludedintheiranswersheet.
oAftertheyfinishthechartontheiranswersheetIwillhaveeachgroupputtheir
findingsonaclasschartdrawnonthewhiteboard.
oTheywillthenhavetimetoanswertherestofthequestionsaskedofthemintheir
lab.
Inheritancepatterns[5min]
oOnceeverystudenthasenteredtheirinformationintotheclasschartIwilltotal
theirnumbers.

oThen,Iwillgetthestudentsattentionandshowtheclasstotalsforeachtrait.
oUsingguidingquestions,Iwillthendemonstratethatbecausesometraitsare
recessivetheyarerepresentedbyalowerpercentageofthetotalspopulation.
oIwillthengetintoinheritancepatterns,andexplainthatwecanuseratiosof
individualswithdominanttraitsversusindividualswithrecessivetraitstodetermine
ifanalleleisdominantorrecessive.
Timetoanswerlabquestions[10min]:
Studentswillhavetherestofthetimeinclasstofinishthequestionsaskedinthelab.
Whatisnotfinishedinclassishomework.

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