Old KS4 Science Curriculum - Science
Mission Objectives
Understand the difference between dominant and recessive alleles
Identify dominant and recessive traits in humans
Understand how dominant and recessive alleles are inherited
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Words and meanings to learn
extensive
covering or affecting a large area
variation
any difference between cells, individual organisms, or groups of organisms of any species caused either by genetic differences
species
a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding
natural selection
the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tends to survive and produce more offspring
mutations
the changing of the structure of a gene, resulting in a variant form that may be transmitted to subsequent generations
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Handout: Dominant and recessive traits chart
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