Thursday, January 14, 2016

Thursday, January 14, 2016
Update your Table of Contents for the Genetics Unit as follows:
U3Act1: Heredity? - Page 52 and 53
U3Act2: Trailblazers of Genetics - Page 54
U3Act3: Structure of DNA - Page 55 and 56

If you were out, copy the summary below of lesson U3Act2: Trailblazers of Genetics to the unit connections pages  - page 50 or 51.

U3Act2 - Trailblazers of Genetics Summary
Gregor Mendel - Father of Genetics (Pea Plant Experiments)
Sir Archibald Garrod: linked genes and biochemicals in the body
Barbara McClintock - genes on chromosomes control traits
Francis Crick - DNA’s double helix
Hamilton Smith - DNA Cutters = restriction enzymes
Rosalind Franklin - Found data used by Crick (and Watson)
Herbert Boyer - Genetic Engineer entrepreneur
Paul Berg - genetic engineer (recombinant DNA)