Science Curriculum

8th Grade

Course Purpose:

 Eighth grade students will use scientific principles to quantify interactions among the components of the world they see.

Outcomes and Components:

SC.8.6 Students will evaluate mutations of genes to determine probability of passing on a disorder.

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Standard(s)
  SC.8.6.1 Describe how genes control types of proteins produced and that those proteins express traits. MS-LS3-1
  SC.8.6.2 Use simulation to show passing of traits and how mutations can occur. MS-LS3-1
  SC.8.6.3 Model mutations in DNA. Amino Acids carry and connect in a specific way. MS-LS3-1
  SC.8.6.4 Modeling mutation to determine whether it is beneficial, harmful, or neutral. MS-LS3-1
  SC.8.6.5 Write a scientific explanation describing how a mutation can occur and what it may look like in the human body. MS-LS3-1

Academic Vocabulary:  Evaluate, probability, describe, utilize, model, analyze, construct an explanation

Content Vocabulary: DNA, nucleotides, adenine, thymine, guanine, satisfying,  ribosome, mutations, deletion, substitution, mutagens, pedigree, genetic engineering