English National Curriculum - Science Science

1. Explore dominant and recessive alleles

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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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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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