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CREATE A BABY
Grade Level:
11
Subject:
SBI3U_Biology (University Prep)
Topic:
Intro to Genetics - Create a Baby Lab
Objective:
Through an interactive paired lab, students will be working to 'create' a mock-up of what their child would look like. This is meant to introduce students in a grade 11 university prep Biology class "investigate genetic processes, including those that occur during meiosis, and analyse data to solve basic genetics problems involving monohybrid and dihybrid crosses" (OME, 2008, p. 54 - D.2.).
There are multiple application for this unit to extend throughout the unit when students will be considering the "social and ethical implications of research in
genetics and genomics" for instance in looking at CRISPER and Designer Babies (specific expectation D1.1); "the concepts of DNA, genes, chromosomes, alleles, mitosis, and meiosis, and how they account for the transmission of hereditary
characteristics according to Mendelian laws of inheritance" (specific expectation D3.2); and looking at genetic disorders (specific expectation D3. 4)... to name a few.
This also opens the door for multiple cross curricular opportunities (with Math, Health Sciences, Art, and English - see poster board and refer to presentation).
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Prep:
- Print student handouts (1 per group of 2)
- Print allele representations (3 for the class)
- Assemble art supplies (depending on format being used)
- Coins
