Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Genetics

Today we'll be working on the last section of the Biology course - Genetics.  Answer the following questions in your books -
  1. Define sexual and asexual reproduction - http://www.biotopics.co.uk/genes1/asexual_and_sexual_reproduction.html
  2. Using the link from question 1, what type of reproduction leads to variation in a population?
  3. What does DNA in genes code for? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/aqa/geneticvariation/whyorganismsaredifferentrev1.shtml
  4. Place the following in order from smallest to largest - Nucelus, DNA, chromosome, gene.
  5. Apart from genetics, what else can influence how an organism looks? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/aqa/geneticvariation/whyorganismsaredifferentrev3.shtml
  6. Briefly describe what cloning is and outline one way that it can occur - http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/tech/cloning/whatiscloning/
  7. Play this game, what things are randomly separated to determine what the offspring will look like? - http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/whoami/thingdom.aspx
Try any of these once you're finished - http://nature.ca/genome/04/041/041_e.cfm

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