Division: Div C – High School

NC Essential Standards Alignment: Biology

Event Rules: See the National Rule Manual

National Event Page: Here

Required Materials: Writing instrument

Description:

Teams will answer questions, solve problems, and analyze data pertaining to classic, evolutionary, and molecular genetics. 

Materials:

Each team may bring writing utensils, two stand-alone non-programmable, non-graphing calculators, and one 8.5” x 11” sheet of paper that may contain information on both sides in any form and from any source. Affixed labels, as well as multiple sheets of paper, are prohibited. 

Scoring:

High score wins. Points are given based on a scoring rubric that takes into account the difficulty level of questions, accuracy and quality of answers, and use of proper scientific methods. elected questions will be used as tiebreakers. 

Resources

• Trihybrid tutorial
• Pearson trihybrid practice
• Kaiser science Trihybrid
• DNA forensics problems set 1
• Heredity resource page
• Designer genes resource page
• Arizona DNA analysis activity
• Mitosis and Meiosis
• Transcription and translation
• More transcription and translation
• PCR
• Hardy-Weinberg
• Phylogenetic trees
• Prok vs Euk gene regulation
• DNA sequencing
• More DNA sequencing
• Cloning
• CRISPR
• Population genetics and forensic analysis
• Lac operon    Structure of DNA

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