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What's Genetic Diversity?

Lesson4 of 14 in this unit

SecondaryYear 7 - 8ScienceEnvironmentalBiodiversityConservationSustainability

Lesson Summary

Students explore examples of genetic diversity and explain its significance within the larger concept of biodiversity.

Learning intentions

Students will:

recognise that each individual organism has all of its features, adaptations and internal chemistry coded in its genes.
link the conservation needs of a species with genetics diversity i.e., for groups of individuals within in a region potentially having different genetics diversity compared to the same species in other regions.
show how genetic diversity assists survival in a species.

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Students can:

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