AC9S10U01 Year 10 Science

This Content Descriptor from Year 10 Science provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

explain the role of meiosis and mitosis and the function of chromosomes, DNA and genes in heredity and predict patterns of Mendelian inheritance

Elaborations

• 1 using models and diagrams to represent the relationship between genes, chromosomes, and DNA of an organism’s genome
• 2 explaining how genetic information passed on to offspring from both parents by meiosis and fertilisation increases the variation of a species
• 3 using Mendelian inheritance to predict the ratio of offspring genotypes and phenotypes in monohybrid crosses involving dominant and recessive alleles or in genes that are sex-linked
• 4 using pedigree diagrams to show patterns of inheritance of simple dominant and recessive characteristics through multigenerational families
• 5 investigating First Nations Australians’ knowledges of heredity as evidenced by the strict adherence to kinship and family structures, especially marriage laws
• 6 exploring environmental and other factors that cause mutations and identifying changes in DNA or chromosomes
• 7 exploring the role of DNA in cancer or genetic disorders such as haemochromatosis, sickle cell anaemia, cystic fibrosis or Klinefelter syndrome

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