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Growth and Development: On/Off Switch

Growth and Development: On/Off Switch

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Biology

9th Grade

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Emma Willett

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23 Slides • 13 Questions

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Open Ended

Prediction: How do some cells end up with proteins that other cells do not have if they have the same DNA?

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Multiple Choice

Decide if Insulin...

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Needs to be made in abundance and all of the time in the cell.

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Needs to be made in abundance, but only at specific times. (And quickly!) 

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Needs to be made more sparingly in the cell (lower amount) but still all of the time.

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Multiple Choice

Decide if Rhodopsin...

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Needs to be made in abundance and all of the time in the cell.

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Needs to be made more sparingly in the cell (lower amount) but still all of the time.

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Needs to be made in abundance, but only at specific times. (And quickly!) 

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Multiple Choice

Decide if Hemoglobin...

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Needs to be made in abundance and all of the time in the cell.

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Needs to be made more sparingly in the cell (lower amount) but still all of the time.

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Needs to be made in abundance, but only at specific times. (And quickly!) 

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Multiple Choice

Decide if Keratin...

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Needs to be made in abundance and all of the time in the cell.

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Needs to be made more sparingly in the cell (lower amount) but still all of the time.

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Needs to be made in abundance, but only at specific times. (And quickly!) 

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Multiple Choice

Decide if pepsin...

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Needs to be made in abundance and all of the time in the cell.

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Needs to be made more sparingly in the cell (lower amount) but still all of the time.

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Needs to be made in abundance, but only at specific times. (And quickly!) 

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Open Ended

Prediction: Why are pepsin and insulin not always on while the other genes are?

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Open Ended

Prediction: What do you think turns genes on and off? How does this "thing" know when to turn a gene on or off?

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Multiple Choice

What do you notice about the number of bases compared to genes?

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There are more genes than bases

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There are more bases than genes

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There is an equal number of bases to genes.

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Multiple Choice

What is the molecule called that turns a gene on and off?

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A light switch

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Enzyme

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Ribosome

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Transcription factor

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Multiple Select

Where do transcription factors bind in relation to the gene?

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Upstream

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Downstream

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After the gene

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Before the gene

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Multiple Choice

What is the vocabulary word for the process of genes being turned on and off?

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Genes working

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Gene regulation

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Gene switching

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Gene coding

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Multiple Choice

True or False: Gene expression is a simple concept that scientists know everything about

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True

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False

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Write the Vocabulary Words that are posted in Google Classroom to your notebook.

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