Elizabeth Rice, Marianne E. Krasny, Margaret E. Smith0873552644, 9780873552646
Tired of teaching genetic concepts with the same old pink petunias and Mendel s peas? With Garden Genetics, you can present core content in ways that are fun for students and fresh for you. This two-part set a teacher edition and companion student edition is adaptable to biology students at all levels, including AP. It uses a series of activities and inquiry-based experiments with familiar foods to teach genetics while helping students make connections to ecology, evolution, plant biology, and even social science. What makes Garden Genetics unique is its emphasis on modern food-plantbased situations. For example, to learn about Punnett s squares, students taste variations in bitterness in cucumber seedlings and then design experiments investigating the surprising role that bitterness plays in protecting plants from insects. To learn about plant breeding, students re-enact a trial in which farmers sued seed companies to compensate for $1 billion in U.S. corn crop losses caused by genetic uniformity. Designed to be flexible, you can use each chapter as a unit or teach the book as a whole. Most important, the innovative content emphasizes the problem-solving skills demanded in today s cutting-edge science classes. |
Table of contents :
Table of Contents……Page 5
Introduction……Page 11
“It Skips A Generation”……Page 19
Bitterness and Non-Bitterness……Page 41
Survival Strategies……Page 59
Domestication……Page 83
Risks of Improvement……Page 99
Genetic Engineering……Page 125
Sweet Genes in Corn……Page 141
Centers of Diversity……Page 163
Quantitive Traits……Page 179
“It Skips A Generation”……Page 215
Bitterness and Non-Bitterness in Cucumbers……Page 231
Survival Strategies……Page 249
Domestication……Page 265
Risks of Improvement……Page 281
Genetic Engineering……Page 301
Sweet Genes in Corn……Page 315
Centers of Diversity……Page 333
Quantitative Traits……Page 347 |
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