Lesson: Karyotypes Biology • First Year of Secondary School

Students will be able to

• define the terms chromosome, diploid, and haploid,
• describe how a karyotype can be used to view the chromosomes within the cell of an organism and that they are arranged in homologous pairs,
• recall that a human body cell will have 46 chromosomes, 44 of which are autosomes and 2 of which are sex chromosomes,
• recall that the sex chromosomes are X and Y,
• interpret provided karyotypes.