AC9S9U02 Year 9 Science

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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.

describe the form and function of reproductive cells and organs in animals and plants, and analyse how the processes of sexual and asexual reproduction enable survival of the species

Elaborations

• 1 examining how the male and female reproductive organ structures work collectively as a system
• 2 explaining how the forms of male and female gametes relate to their specific function
• 3 identifying and comparing sexual and asexual reproductive strategies in plants
• 4 exploring how sexual reproduction creates a greater rate of variation among offspring compared with asexual reproduction
• 5 examining how the reproductive strategies of multicellular animals are related to their environment and the complexity of the organism
• 6 examining how the number of offspring produced by animals is related to the amount of parental care

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