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=Learning Experience 7: A Gene for Everything and Every Gene in Its Place=

**Day One**
**Prologue and Brainstorming** page 204-205  **DNA, DNA, Wherefore Art Thou, DNA?** page 205  Homework:
 * Prologue provides the context for further learning about Chromosomes and Inheritance
 * Brainstorming Questions --> what do you already know about Chromosomes? How do you think this will connect with what you know about genes and DNA?
 * Read page 205 out loud in class. Answer **What is a Chromosome?**
 * Rather than the suggested activity, I suggest these three
 * 1) Go to this video on [|DNA packaging]. Ask students to **describe how DNA is packaged in a Chromosome**.
 *  Read page 208-209 **Characterizing Chromosomes **aloud, in class.
 * Define **Karyotype** and **diploid**.
 * 1) Go to the web site of the [|Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah].
 * Scroll Down to the section on the left labeled //More About Chromosomes//
 * Click on the two sections: //How Do Scientists Read Chromosomes?// (Write down three important things that help distinguish one Chromosome from another) and //Make a Karyotype// (Go ahead and have students make a Karyotype)
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Answer Analysis p.210 #1-5; Try to answer in class if time allows. Discuss student responses.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Make paper chromosomes to model Fruit Fly Chromosomes
 * Print Out a copy of the Fruit Fly Chromosomes on white paper
 * Cut out each of the four Fruit Fly Chromosomes
 * Label each by writing or taping the Chromosome number to the back of the chromosome
 * Place the 4 chromosomes in a Zip Loc plastic bag or envelope. You will use these in our next class.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Day Two - //**Reading the Future? Analyzing Chromosomes and Explaining Consequences**//

 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Debrief/Discuss Homework Responses from page 210.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">How is DNA packaged? Why do you think DNA is packaged right before cell division?


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Reading the Future? Analyzing Chromosomes and Explaining the Consequences: Write a genetic counseling letter.


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Use the Chromosome Analysis Kits from Carolina; one for each group.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Photograph the Karyotype; research the genetic condition.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Career Focus: Genetic Counselor