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B14 Triple Key Learning Points

This document outlines key learning points and revision activities about variation and evolution, natural selection, selective breeding, genetic engineering, cloning, and issues related to genetic engineering and cloning. It includes topics such as identifying genetic and environmental variation; explaining evolution through natural selection; describing selective breeding and its advantages and disadvantages; explaining genetic engineering and cloning processes; and identifying benefits, problems, and ethical issues related to genetic engineering in agriculture and medicine. Revision activities involve creating diagrams, tables, posters and other materials to demonstrate understanding of the concepts.

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B14 Triple Key Learning Points

This document outlines key learning points and revision activities about variation and evolution, natural selection, selective breeding, genetic engineering, cloning, and issues related to genetic engineering and cloning. It includes topics such as identifying genetic and environmental variation; explaining evolution through natural selection; describing selective breeding and its advantages and disadvantages; explaining genetic engineering and cloning processes; and identifying benefits, problems, and ethical issues related to genetic engineering in agriculture and medicine. Revision activities involve creating diagrams, tables, posters and other materials to demonstrate understanding of the concepts.

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B13 Variation and evolution

Key learning point Revision activity Tick


To be able to identify genetic and 1. Make a list of the characteristics that make you
environmental variation. unique. Sort them into a table showing whether they
are controlled by genes or the environment.
2. Write a method to investigate different forms of
variation and how they interlink.
To be able to explain how evolution happens 1. Bullet point the key steps of natural selection.
by the process of natural selection. 2. Make a case study of how a giraffe came to have a
long neck or why the peppered moth looks the way it
does now.
To be able to describe the process of 1. Make a flow diagram to show the steps of selective
selective breeding and identify the breeding.
advantages and disadvantages of selective 2. Make a table of the pros and cons of selective
breeding. breeding.
[Higher] To be able to explain how genes are 1. Make a flow diagram to show the steps of genetic
transferred from one organism to another in engineering.
genetic engineering to get the desired 2. Bullet point the steps to make insulin using genetic
outcome. engineering.
To be able to identify the benefits and 1. Make a table of the pros and cons of GM crops.
problems associated with genetic 2. Make a leaflet selling GM crops to the public,
engineering in agriculture and medicine. including risks and benefits.
To be able to describe the processes of 1. Make flow diagrams to show the steps of tissue
cloning in plants and animals. culture and embryo cloning.
2. Compare tissue culture and embryo cloning using a
Venn diagram.
To be able to explain the process of adult cell 1. Bullet point the key steps in how Dolly the sheep was
cloning. created.
2. Compare, using a double bubble, the processes of
embryo cloning and adult cell cloning.
To be able to recall some of the concerns 1. Use this link to summarise the key points:
about cloning and genetic engineering. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/aqa
_pre_2011/evolution/reproductionrev6.shtml
2. Make a poster to summarise the pros and cons of
cloning and genetic engineering.
Exam questions

3. Suggest some of the economic and ethical issues raised by embryo cloning in cattle (4)
4. In order, list the main steps in adult cell cloning (5)

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