Students, below is a list of the vocabulary that we discussed in class on Tuesday. Cells – the basic unit of life and carry out basic functions (reproduce, consume energy, etc…) Robert Hooke – Was the first to discover cells. He discovered them in cork Anton van Leeuwenhoek – First to discover animal cells Cell…

Friday in class we took time to review for our upcoming genetics unit test on Monday. Review days for us are a little bit different than you typical review day. We used a up-tempo activity to acquire information and prepare ourselves for our test. Sharing the Work Load We first divide into five groups and…

Students, I have embed a copy of a completed study guide for our genetics test on Monday. Please review the information and be prepared for the test. Mr. McClung

I’m a horse! Continuing with genetics discussions in my science classes, today we focused on selective breeding. Selective breeding is the process by which two organisms are cross-breed because they have desired traits that are wanted to pass on to the next generation. In order to demonstrate how this works, today we performed a lab…

Students, below are all the terms that we will be covering this week in science class. Karyotype – Picture of all chromosomes in a cell. Pedigrees – “Family tree” that tracks which member carries a particular trait. Selective Breeding – Selecting organisms with desired traits to pass on to next generation. Inbreeding – Crossing two…

In the past week in science, we have had numerous decisions about genetics and heredity. In a recent activity we have put genetics and probability to the test. The activity is called spudoodle, in this activity students were given two sets of genetics….one from a mother and one from a father. Students were then asked…