Worksheets

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Textbook assignment

Step 1:

Read Chapter 12 pages 232-233, and all pages of Chapter 13, in your text and answer the related questions on your worksheets.

If you need help, there is an answer key at the front desk of the Biology Learning Center.

Textbook publisher's web activities

Step 2: Complete the following activities from the textbook publisher's website. Answer the related questions on your worksheet. These activities are from a previous edition of your textbook - that's OK. (Note: Only complete the activities listed below, not all of the activities for each text chapter.)

Chapter 13 textbook publisher's web activities

• 13.2 - Exploration - Heredity in families
• 13.2 - Exploration - Gene segregation within families
• 13.2 - Art Quiz - Patterns of inheritance
• 13.2 - Art Quiz - Sickle cell anemia and malaria
• 13.3 - Exploration - Constructing a genetic map (Optional but recommended)
• 13.3 - Introduction to chromosomes
• 13.3 - Recombination
• 13.3 - Sex
• 13. 3 - Art Quiz - Barr bodies
• 13.3 - Art Quiz - Nondisjunction and sex chromosomes
  

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Lab activities

Complete the following activities and answer the related questions on your worksheet. (All labs for this unit can be completed at home)

Step 3: Complete Internet Activity - Determining Karyotypes
for lab points, can be completed at home

Step 4: Complete Internet Activity - You've Got the Cutest Little Baby Face
for lab points, can be completed at home

Step 5: Complete Internet Activity - Human Genetics and Blood Types Problem Sets
No points, but important for your exam, can be completed at home

Step 6: Complete Internet Activity - Sex Linked Inheritance and Colorblindness Problem Sets
No points, but important for your exam, can be completed at home

Self quiz

Step 7: Review material from lesson 10 to prepare for your exam.

Use the self-quiz below to review material from lesson 10 that will be on your exam. These questions are similar, but not identical, to questions on your exam.

Click here to begin the multiple choice self-quiz for lesson 10

Optional

Human Blood - Palomar Community College
This site, from a physical anthropology course, has a good section explaining the inheritance of blood types.

OMIM - Online Inheritance in Man - Johns Hopkins University
This site is quite technical, but it does include some information and references about genetic disorders in humans.