AC9S10U01 Year 10 Science

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

Elaborations

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