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Transmission of heritable characteristics from one generation to the next involves DNA and genes (ACSSU184)

Elaborations

describing the role of DNA as the blueprint for controlling the characteristics of organisms
using models and diagrams to represent the relationship between DNA, genes and chromosomes
recognising that genetic information passed on to offspring is from both parents by meiosis and fertilisation
representing patterns of inheritance of a simple dominant/recessive characteristic through generations of a family
predicting simple ratios of offspring genotypes and phenotypes in crosses involving dominant/recessive gene pairs or in genes that are sex-linked
describing mutations as changes in DNA or chromosomes and outlining the factors that contribute to causing mutations

ScOT terms

Heredity

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