Thursday, January 17, 2008

Visual Vocabulary

Objective: 1. create visuals for all of the new vocabulary 2. Learn how a pedigree can be used to track traits.

After completing a set of practice problems, students selected one of the following words/concepts to create a poster for. These posters are now displayed above the white board to help us remember (and use) the words.

Next we moved on to the basics of a pedigree (see below).

Homework: Read the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs on page 8 in the packet. CAREFULLY FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS to discover the geneotypes of individuals A-G.


Circles are female, squares are male. If the shape is colored in, it means that the individual is affected.