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Unit 3: Heredity, Evolution, and Classification

Grade Level:: 7
Subject:: Life Science
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Understandings:: “God is the creator and sustainer of all things pertaining to scientific study.” * (John 1:3)
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1. Describe the experiments of Gregor Mendel and explain the difference between dominant and recessive traits.
2. Discuss how genes and alleles are related to genotype and phenotype.
3. Demonstrate how to use a Punnett Square to determine the probability of possible offspring combinations.
4. Compare and contrast mitosis and meiosis.
5. Describe how chromosomes determine sex and how sex linked disorders can be passed from parent to offspring.
6. Describe the basic structure of DNA and explain how DNA molecules can be copied.
Outline the basic steps in making protein.
7. Identify three types of mutations that can occur during DNA replication.
8. Compare a Biblical account of creation to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
9. List the seven levels of classification used in classifying organisms.
10. Use the rules for naming and classifying organisms to identify a living organism.
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Unit 3: Heredity, Evolution, and Classification

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