Content Area: Science

 

Index: 5.5C Grade 12 CPI 2

 

Standard: 5.5 - Characteristics of Life

 

Strand: C - Reproduction and Heredity

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 2 - The student will explain how genetic material can be altered by natural and/or artificial means; mutations and new gene combinations may have positive, negative, or no effect on organisms or species.

 

Grade: 12

 

Sample Activities:

 

·       Evolution of cookie or mutations of cookies: using cookie recipe as analogy for species and altered recipes for mutations or variations  http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/AEF/1994/johnson_chips.html

 

 

 

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