Competency Goal 5: The learner will conduct investigations and utilize appropriate technologies and information systems to build an understanding of heredity and genetics.

Objectives

5.01 Explain the significance of genes to inherited characteristics:

• Genes are the units of information.
• Parents transmit genes to their offspring.
• Some medical conditions and diseases are genetic.

5.02 Explain the significance of reproduction:

• Sorting and recombination of parents' genetic material.
• Potential variation among offspring.

5.03 Identify examples and patterns of human genetic traits:

• Dominant and recessive.
• Incomplete dominance.

5.04 Analyze the role of probability in the study of heredity:

• Role of each parent in transfer of genetic traits.
• Analysis of pedigrees.

5.05 Summarize the genetic transmittance of disease.

5.06 Evaluate evidence that human characteristics are a product of:

• Inheritance.
• Environmental factors, and
• Lifestyle choices.