Lab Project 2

Attached Files:

• BI114 Lab Project 2 Rubric.pdf (82.949 KB)

THIS PROJECT GOES ALONG WITH UNIT 2 AND IS DUE FIRST: WEDNESDAY of WEEK 3 by 11:59 Eastern Time. Note that is long before Project 1 is due in Week 6! Click on the assignment TITLE above to get to where you can submit your results … scroll down when you get there to submit all answers in the box or attach files.

How do you determine if someone’s chromosomes are normal and how are traits inherited? Let’s find out! Be sure and review the attached rubric below so you see what I expect when I am grading these.

For your Module 2-related lab project you will complete several online activities related to genetics and inheritance patterns from the marvelous University of Arizona Online Biology Project site:

1) You will complete three human karyotypes (examinations of a person’s chromosomes for abnormalities in number or appearance) online. There are questions following each karyotype for Patients A, B and C (SEVEN total including an internet search problem) that you should answer and submit to me with your answers to parts 2 and 3 below by the lab project #2 due date on the calendar. Submit your entire report at one time in a single .doc, .docx, or .rtf file attachment below, please!

First, go to:

Reading Chromosomes

Karyotyping and Genetic Disorders-Aneuploidy

Karyotyping and Genetic Disorders- Rearrangements

Read about and watch animations of what happens when things go wrong in meiosis there!

Then try your hand at matching chromosomes up here:

Make a Karyotype

Nothing to report there, just practice.

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THEN for Part 1 of your lab assignment go to: Human Karyotyping Activity

Read the instructions there CAREFULLY include all background materials, then click on Patient Histories and follow the directions!

NOTE: DO NOT overlook the assignment after Patient C to find and write a brief summary of a genetics-related website. That is included in the project grade!

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Part 2) Next complete the Colorblindness Inheritance Activity (NOT the Sex-Linked Inheritance Problem set- you want to complete the one about color-blind Audrei and her family, NOT fruit flies!)

Colorblindness Inheritance Problem Set

Read the opening page and then click on Brief Introduction to Sex-Linked Inheritance at the bottom. Read that and then click on the Color Blindness Problem Set button at the bottom of that page). Please submit your question answers for this set to me along with the karyotypes and the final Blood Types activity describe next.

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Part 3) Last, complete the Blood Types Problem Set, including your answers to the questions in your report:

Blood Types Problem Set

Click on the project title and submit ALL results for parts 1, 2, and 3 and your human genetics website review as a SINGLE attached .doc, .docx, .pdf, or .rtf file OR copy all of your answers to in the Assignment Submission box.