Who’s the Daddy?
DNA fingerprinting is often seen in today’s media. This simplified model helps students visualize the analysis process, understand the underlying concepts and applications of DNA fingerprinting, and develop collaboration skills as young scientists.
Standards
Idea Sheets are cross-referenced to subjects listed in the Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards, and California Content Standards.
Follow precisely a multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks.||Common Core Language Arts||Grades 6-8||Reading Science/Technical||Key Ideas and Details|||Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6-8 texts and topics.||Common Core Language Arts||Grades 6-8||Reading Science/Technical||Craft and Structure|||Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).||Common Core Language Arts||Grades 6-8||Reading Science/Technical||Integration of Knowledge and Ideas|||Develop & use a model to describe why asexual reproduction results in offspring with identical genetic information & sexual reproduction results in offspring with genetic variation. [Use models to describe the cause & effect relationship of gene transmission from parent to offspring & resulting genetic variation.] ||Next Generation Science Standards||Middle School||Life Science||Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits|||Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.||Common Core Language Arts||Grade 7||Speaking & Listening||Comprehension and Collaboration|||Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.||Common Core Language Arts||Grade 8||Speaking & Listening||Comprehension and Collaboration|||Ask questions to clarify relationships about the role of DNA and chromosomes in coding the instructions for characteristic traits passed from parents to offspring. ||Next Generation Science Standards||High School||Life Science||Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits|||Follow precisely a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks, attending to special cases or exceptions defined in the text.||Common Core Language Arts||Grade 9-10||Reading Science/Technical||Key Ideas and Details|||Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 9-10 texts and topics.||Common Core Language Arts||Grade 9-10||Reading Science/Technical||Craft and Structure|||Translate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text into visual form (e.g., a table or chart) and translate information expressed visually or mathematically (e.g., in an equation) into words.||Common Core Language Arts||Grade 9-10||Reading Science/Technical||Integration of Knowledge and Ideas|||Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9-10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.||Common Core Language Arts||Grade 9-10||Speaking & Listening||Comprehension and Collaboration|||Follow precisely a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks; analyze the specific results based on explanations in the text.||Common Core Language Arts||Grade 11-12||Reading Science/Technical||Key Ideas and Details|||Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 11-12 texts and topics.||Common Core Language Arts||Grade 11-12||Reading Science/Technical||Craft and Structure|||Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., quantitative data, video, multimedia) in order to address a question or solve a problem.||Common Core Language Arts||Grade 11-12||Reading Science/Technical||Integration of Knowledge and Ideas|||Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 11-12 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.||Common Core Language Arts||Grade 11-12||Speaking & Listening||Comprehension and Collaboration
2.b. Sexual reproduction produces offspring that inherit half their genes from each parent.||CA Science||Grade 7||02. Genetics||2. A typical cell of any organism contains genetic instructions that specify its traits. Those traits may be modified by environmental influences.|||2.e. DNA is the genetic material of living organisms, and is located in the chromosomes of each cell.||CA Science||Grade 7||02. Genetics||2. A typical cell of any organism contains genetic instructions that specify its traits. Those traits may be modified by environmental influences.|||3.a. How to predict the probable outcome of phenotypes in a genetic cross from the genotypes of the parents and mode of inheritance (autosomal or X-linked, dominant or recessive).||Grade 9-12||03. Biology/Life Sciences||2. Genetics||3. A multicellular organism develops from a single zygote, and its phenotype depends on its genotype, which is established at fertilization.|||5.a. The general structures and functions of DNA, RNA, and protein.||Grade 9-12||03. Biology/Life Sciences||2. Genetics||5. The genetic composition of cells can be altered by incorporation of exogenous DNA into the cells.
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- Grades 6-8
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