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Transfer of Heritable Information

Virginia SOL BIOII.4

Investigate how the transfer of heritable information leads to the continuity of life.

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What students need to be able to do

  • Develop and use a model to explain how processes during sexual reproduction (crossing over, independent assortment, and random gamete combinations) increase genetic diversity.
  • Make, support, and evaluate a claim about the effect of mutations in DNA (frameshift, insertion, deletion, and substitution) or nondisjunction on diversity.
  • Make, support, and evaluate a claim about the type of intra-allelic gene interactions (dominance, incomplete dominance, codominance, and multiple alleles) in a given scenario.
  • Compare gene linkage and sex-linked inheritance with intra-allelic interactions.
  • Predict genotypes and phenotypes from genetic crosses of dihybrid and sex-linked traits in simple organisms.
  • Develop and use a model to explain patterns of polygenic inheritance.