NOTE: this post is for Tuesday & Wednesday classes.
Objective: By the end of today, students will be able to interpret Punnett Squares, complete monohybrid crosses and begin to look at probability.
Opening problem:
Hairy vampire bats are dominant to bald vampire bats. Draw a punnett square that shows a cross between a homozygous dominant male and a heterozygous dominant female. What percentage of the offspring are hairy? What percentage of the offspring are bald?
New vocabulary for today:
monohybrid cross
genotype
phenotype
probability
carrier
Homework: make vocab cards for the words above
