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Subject Area - 3:
Science and Technology and Engineering Education
Science and Technology and Engineering Education
- Standard Area - 3.4: Technology and Engineering Education
- Organizing Category - 3.4.E: The Designed World
- Grade Level - 3.4.8.E: GRADE 8
Standard - 3.4.8.E1
Analyze what technologies are used in genetic engineering and predict how it may change the future of medicine.
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Assessment Anchor - S8.B.2
Continuity of Life
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Anchor Descriptor - S8.B.2.1 Explain the basic concepts of natural selection.
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Eligible Content - S8.B.2.1.1 Explain how inherited structures or behaviors help organisms survive and reproduce in different environments.
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Alternate Eligible Content - S8.B.2.1.1a Identify structures or behaviors that enable plats or animals to survive in their environment (e.g., size of plant, leaf shape or appendages, coverings, nocturnal behaviors.)
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Eligible Content - S8.B.2.1.2 Explain how different adaptations in individuals of the same species may affect survivability or reproduction success.Eligible Content - S8.B.2.1.3 Explain that mutations can alter a gene and are the original source of new variations.Eligible Content - S8.B.2.1.4 Describe how selective breeding or biotechnology can change the genetic makeup of organisms.Eligible Content - S8.B.2.1.5 Explain that adaptations are developed over long periods of time and are passed from one generation to another.
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Anchor Descriptor - S8.B.2.2 Explain how a set of genetic instructions determines inherited traits of organisms.
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Eligible Content - S8.B.2.2.1 Identify and explain differences between inherited and acquired traits.Eligible Content - S8.B.2.2.2 Recognize that the gene is the basic unit of inheritance, that there are dominant and recessive genes, and that traits are inherited.
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