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

Curriculum and WebXam connections

Read a gene card: NCBI Gene and MedlinePlus

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 uses authoritative sources and evidence to investigate.

WebXam

072110 Principles and Practice of Biomedical Technology

Domain: Biotechnology Research and Experiments

How it connects

PBS investigations lean on trusted sources; this is the gene-card version of that skill.

Shared concepts

Gene recordEvidence from a database

Shared skills

Read an NCBI or MedlinePlus gene card

GenDGenetics of Disease Fall and Spring

PLTW alignment

GenD's genetic-testing work reads gene and variant records.

WebXam

072130 Genetics of Disease

Domain: Bio-Molecular Technology

How it connects

Reading a gene card is the entry skill for GenD's genetic-testing unit.

Shared concepts

Gene functionClinical significance

Shared skills

Look up a gene

Shared vocabulary (same words, same meaning)

gene mirrors: Genes code for proteins
transcription factor mirrors: How genes are regulated
phenotype mirrors: Genotype to phenotype