Rough draft.This research track is under review with Dr. Atit's lab. Content and sequence may still change.

Curriculum and WebXam connections

What a cleft is, and why timing matters

How this session lines up with the PLTW curriculum and the WebXam for each class it touches, including the vocabulary, concepts, and skills you share.

The classes below may be taught in different terms. This research track runs all year with HOSA, so a connection means the ideas line up, not that the class meets this week.

PBSPrinciples of Biomedical Science Fall

PLTW alignment

PBS connects DNA to proteins and to traits; a cleft is a trait traced back to a gene.

WebXam

072110 Principles and Practice of Biomedical Technology

Domain: Biotechnology Research and Experiments

How it connects

PBS's DNA-and-proteins work explains why a change in IRF6 can leave a cleft.

Shared concepts

Gene to proteinA trait from an instruction

Shared skills

Read a gene cardExplain a trait's cause

Shared vocabulary (same words, same meaning)

fusion mirrors: How structures form and join during development
critical window mirrors: Timing in development

GenDGenetics of Disease Fall and Spring

PLTW alignment

GenD (Medical Interventions) screens genes and links variants to conditions.

WebXam

072130 Genetics of Disease

Domain: Bio-Molecular Technology

How it connects

GenD's genetic-testing work is the molecular version of the question this session opens.

Shared concepts

Genotype to phenotypeDisease-linked gene

Shared skills

Link a gene change to a condition

Shared vocabulary (same words, same meaning)

gene mirrors: Genes code for proteins