Human Reproduction
Human reproduction...Chapter 4! It is pretty neat and we talked about a lot of interesting things and saw some videos. Here are links to some of them that may help you out.
For "The Greatest Miracle" there is the life of the Sperm (16:00 minutes) and then the female reproductive system (21:30)
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Answer Key to Practice Test HERE
Mitosis!!
Atypical Meiosis
The word of the day was nondisjunction. We watched a number of videos that taught us a bit more about nondisjunction, and specifically when nondisjunction occurs in chromosome 21, or in the sex chromosomes.
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Oh yeah...we also looked a little at fermentation and the chemistry behind fermentation. That may be more chemistry..but we did learn how sugar is converted to ethanol (and eventually into acetic acid) and carbon dioxide in the fermentation process. Cool, eh?!
Sex-linked traits (Section 4.4)
Punnett Squares and different genotypes!!! Click HERE for the Worksheet Answers on Punnett Squares 1f is 250