Year-8 Biology Adaptation and Inheritance: Inheritance

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In this lesson students will explain how characteristics are inherited. They will also describe the structure of DNA and some of the history of DNA discovery. The slides include extension questions, and students can choose from a variety of different tasks.

Year-8 Biology Adaptation and Inheritance: Inheritance

In this Year-8 Biology Adaptation and Inheritance: Inheritance lesson, students will explain how characteristics are inherited. They will also describe the structure of DNA and some of the history of DNA discovery.

The slides include extension questions, and students can choose from a variety of different tasks.

This lesson includes:

  • Title slide with learning objectives
  • A starter activity
  • Group reading (literacy)
  • Keywords (vocabulary: fertilisation, genetic information, DNA, chromosomes and genes)
  • Task boxes
  • Order the steps
  • Handout sheet task
  • Answer slides included for self-assessment

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Lessons for Key Stage 3, Year 8 Biology Topic 3 Adaptation and Inheritance

  1. Competition
  2. Adapting to Change
  3. Variation
  4. Continuous and Discontinuous Variation
  5. Inheritance
  6. Natural Selection
  7. Extinction
  8. Adaptation and Inheritance End of Topic Revision Lesson

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