GCSE Biology – Evolution

Last updated: 30/04/2020
Eduqas GCSE Science – Biology higher Inheritance, variation and evolution GCSE Biology – Evolution

Learning Objectives

-I can recall that mutations continuously occur
-I can define evolution
-I can describe the theory of evolution

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  1. When did simple life forms first exist?

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  2. What causes a change in an individual’s genes?

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  3. Do mutations always result in beneficial characteristics?

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  4. When do mutations take place?

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  5. How often do mutations occur?

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  6. How often do mutations cause variation?

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  7. Why might mutations then cause evolution?

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  8. What is evolution?

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  9. Who made the evolution theory?

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  10. What is the name of the evolution theory?

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  11. How does evolution occur?

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  12. How long does it take for evolution to occur?

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  13. What might evolution eventually cause?

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  14. What have all species of living things evolved from?

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  15. If a new useful variation forms, what process occurs?

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  16. What is natural selection?

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  17. Why does natural selection occur?

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  18. What is passed on to the next generation?

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  19. Why are only the best-suited characteristics passed on?

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  20. What happens to the phenotype of a population over generations?

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  21. Why might two populations of the same species have the same phenotype?

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  22. Why might two populations of the same species have different phenotypes?

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  23. What happens if two populations of a species have extremely different phenotypes?

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  24. If two populations can no longer interbreed, what has formed?

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  25. Give an example of a useful variation for a camel.

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