10.1: Meiosis II
Teaching time allocated: 3 hours
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key vocab
prior learning & retrieval practice
Review topic 3.3 Meiosis
Review topic 3.2 Chromosomes
Crossing over
U1: Chromosomes replicate in interphase before meiosis.
U2: Crossing over is the exchange of DNA material between non-sister homologous chromatids.
U3: Crossing over produces new combinations of alleles on the chromosomes of the haploid cells.
U4: Chiasmata formation between non-sister chromatids can result in an exchange of alleles.
Exercise 1: Watch the video and complete the following:
Explain how replication of chromosomes in interphase allows crossing over in meiosis I to occur
How does crossing over lead to recombination of chromosomes?
S1: Drawing diagrams to show chiasmata formed by crossing over.
Guidance:
Diagrams of chiasmata should show sister chromatids still closely aligned, except at the point where crossing over occurred and a chiasma was formed.
Exercise 2: Draw and label a diagram of chiasmata formed by crossing over.
independent assortment
Essential idea: Meiosis leads to independent assortment of chromosomes and unique composition of alleles in daughter cells.
NoS: Making careful observations—careful observation and record keeping turned up anomalous data that Mendel’s law of independent assortment could not account for. Thomas Hunt Morgan developed the notion of linked genes to account for the anomalies. (1.8)
U5: Homologous chromosomes separate in meiosis I.
U6: Sister chromatids separate in meiosis II.
U7: Independent assortment of genes is due to the random orientation of pairs of homologous chromosomes in meiosis I.
Exercise 3: Outline how independent assortment increases genotypic variation.
