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Students learn
- outline the experiments carried out by Gregor Mendel
- perform an investigation to construct pedigrees or family trees, trace the inheritance of selected characteristics and discuss their current use
- solve problems involving monohybrid crosses using Punnett squares or other appropriate techniques
- process information from secondary sources to describe an example of hybridisation within a species and explain the purpose of this hybridisation describe the aspects of the experimental techniques used by Mendel that led to his success
- describe outcomes of monohybrid crosses involving simple dominance using Mendel’s explanations
- distinguish between homozygous and heterozygous genotypes in monohybrid crosses
- distinguish between the terms allele and gene, using examples
- explain the relationship between dominant and recessive alleles and phenotype using examples
- outline the reasons why the importance of Mendel’s work was not recognised until some time after it was published
