At-Home Activities

Referring to your notes from Chapter 5, produce a chart comparing mitosis and meiosis.

• Obtain two different species of flowers from a garden and compare their reproductive structures.
• Locate a plant that is hermaphroditic and another that is of only one sex.

Conduct an inventory of the various foods in your home. Which foods are vegetables and which are fruits? Confirm your classifications through library or Internet research.

Research the destruction of the rain forest using a variety of resources.

Construct a glossary of new terms introduced in this lesson.

Based on what you have learned in this lesson, graph the levels of progesterone and estrogen during the different phases of the reproductive cycle.

Interview family members to learn their views on whether genetic screening should be widely available.

Conduct further research into karyotype use. Sketch karyotypes for Klinefelter or Turner syndromes.

The Chapter Review (pp. 228-229) in your textbook lists all the Key Expectations you have covered in the chapter and identifies the specific lessons in which the knowledge and skills have been developed.

You can use the Key Expectations list to help you create a personal study guide in preparation for an end-of-chapter test:

1. Copy down the list of learning expectations from your textbook.
2. For each learning expectation, locate the appropriate lesson(s) in the unit where the expectation was covered. These are identified in parentheses at the end of each expectation (e.g., 7.2).
3. Flip to the appropriate lesson(s) for each expectation and make study notes of the key ideas or skills you learned.