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title: "SB3: Heredity and Trait Transmission (Georgia Science standard)"
code: SB3
cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, Science, SB3
subject: science
grades:
  - high-school
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# SB3: Heredity and Trait Transmission

Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations.

- Subject: Science
- Appears in: High School, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/science/high-school.md

## Expectations

- **SB3.a**: Use Mendel's laws (segregation and independent assortment) to ask questions and define problems that explain the role of meiosis in reproductive variability.
- **SB3.b**: Use mathematical models to predict and explain patterns of inheritance.
- **SB3.c**: Construct an argument to support a claim about the relative advantages and disadvantages of sexual and asexual reproduction.

## Georgia Milestones coverage

- Biology (EOC). Cellular Genetics & Heredity. Cellular Genetics & Heredity (about 24% of the test; 11 points; shared with other standards, so count these points once and never add them up per standard)

Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.