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2.5 Variation Selection Cover Sheet

This document provides an overview of the key topics and learning objectives covered in a GCSE Biology unit on variation and natural selection. The unit will investigate how variation arises in living things from both genetic and environmental sources. Students will learn how natural selection can act on this variation to potentially lead to evolution or extinction over time as populations adapt to their environment. They will also study selective breeding by humans and how it has changed plant and animal species over generations. Practical work and self-assessment tasks are included to support student learning.

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2.5 Variation Selection Cover Sheet

This document provides an overview of the key topics and learning objectives covered in a GCSE Biology unit on variation and natural selection. The unit will investigate how variation arises in living things from both genetic and environmental sources. Students will learn how natural selection can act on this variation to potentially lead to evolution or extinction over time as populations adapt to their environment. They will also study selective breeding by humans and how it has changed plant and animal species over generations. Practical work and self-assessment tasks are included to support student learning.

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GCSE Biology Topic Cover Sheet 2.

5 Variation & Natural Selection

UNIT 2: TOPIC 5; VARIATION AND NATURAL


SELECTION
LEARNING INTENTIONS:
 investigate variation in living things and display data using appropriate graphical techniques,
including:
o height and length as examples of continuous variation (histogram);
o and tongue rolling and hand dominance as examples of discontinuous variation (bar chart);
 demonstrate knowledge and understanding that variation in living organisms has:
o a genetic basis – mutations (random changes in the number of chromosomes or the
structure of a gene) and sexual reproduction produce different phenotypes in a population;
o an environmental basis influencing the development of a phenotype (for example height in
humans).
 demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how variation and natural selection may lead to
evolution or extinction, including:
o variation in the phenotypes of a population;
o competition for resources often leading to
o differential survival of the best adapted phenotypes, for example antibiotic resistance;
o surviving phenotypes are more likely to reproduce and pass on their genes to the next
generation;
o the theory of evolution as a continuing process of natural selection that leads to gradual
changes in organisms over time, which may result in the formation of a new species;
o the role of fossils in providing evidence for evolution; and
o extinction of a species over time as a consequence of failure to adapt to environmental
change;
 explain selective breeding in food plants and domesticated animals as a process in which:
o humans select individual plants or animals for their desirable genetic characteristics, for
example appearance, increased food quantity or quality or disease resistance, and breed
them to produce offspring; and
o repeated selection and breeding over many generations causes all the offspring to show the
desired characteristic;

KEYWORDS
1. Continuous variation 4. Environmental 8. Fossils
Variation
9. Extinct
5. Natural Selection
2. Discontinuous
10. Endangered
Variation
6. Antibiotic Resistance
11. Selective Breeding
3. Mutations
7. Evolution
12. Artificial Selection

The Wallace High School Biology Department


GCSE Biology Topic Cover Sheet 2.5 Variation & Natural Selection

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