1. Goal: Students will be able to explain how DNA was identified as the genetic material, describe the basic processes of replication, transcription, and translation, and explain how mutations in the DNA sequence or gametes may result in phenotypic changes.
4. Students are able to explain how DNA was identified as the genetic material, describe the basic processes of replication, transcription, and translation, and explain how mutations in the DNA sequence or gametes may result in phenotypic changes and how this relates to the cell cycle.
3. Students are able to explain how DNA was identified as the genetic material, describe the basic processes of replication, transcription, and translation, and explain how mutations in the DNA sequence or gametes may result in phenotypic changes.
2. Students are able to explain how DNA was identified as the genetic material and describe the basic processes of replication, transcription, and translation.
1. With help, students cannot explain how DNA was identified as the genetic material and describe the basic processes of replication, transcription, and translation.

2. KEY CONCEPT DNA replication copies the genetic information of a cell.

3. Replication copies the genetic information.
A single strand of DNA serves as a template for a new strand.
The rules of base pairing direct replication.
DNA is replicated during the S (synthesis) stage of the cell cycle.
Each body cell gets a complete set of identical DNA.

4. Proteins carry out the process of replication.
DNA serves only as a template.
Enzymes and other proteins do the actual work of replication.
Helicase enzymes unzip the double helix.
Free-floating nucleotides form hydrogen bonds with the template strand.
nucleotide
The DNA molecule unzips in both directions.

5. DNA polymerase enzymes bond the nucleotides together to form the double helix.
Polymerase enzymes form covalent bonds between nucleotides in the new strand.
DNA polymerase
new strand
nucleotide

6. DNA Polymerase works in one direction

7. DNA replication is semiconservative.
Two new molecules of DNA are formed, each with an original strand and a newly formed strand.
DNA replication is semiconservative.
original strand
new strand
Two molecules of DNA

8. Replication is fast and accurate.
DNA replication starts at many points in eukaryotic chromosomes.
There are many origins of replication in eukaryotic chromosomes.
DNA polymerases can find and correct errors.