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Designing Effective Projects: Designer Genes
Content Standards and Objectives
Targeted Content Standards and Benchmarks
National Science Standards
Science: Grade 8-10 
  • Understand the history and the basic principles of heredity and human genetics  
  • Explain genetic mutation as it occurs in nature
  • Explain how genetic engineering could be helpful/harmful
Student Objectives
Students will be able to:
  • Describe how the traits of an organism are passed from generation to generation 
  • Explain the structure and function of DNA
  • Explain how genotypic variation occurs and results in phenotypic diversity 
  • Describe the information that might be carried on a gene
  • Describe genetic mutations and hybrids
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