Learning Outcomes
By the end of this unit, students:
- understand the cellular processes and mechanisms that ensure the continuity of life, and how these processes contribute to unity and diversity within a species
- understand the processes and mechanisms that explain how life on Earth has persisted, changed and diversified over the last 3.5 billion years
- understand how models and theories have developed over time
- use science inquiry skills to design, conduct, evaluate and communicate investigations into heredity, gene technology applications, and population gene pool changes
- evaluate, with reference to empirical evidence, claims about heredity processes, gene technology, and population gene pool processes, and justify evaluations