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A3BLY
In this unit, students
- understand the cellular processes and mechanisms that ensure the continuity of life, and how these processes contribute to unity and diversity within a species
- understand the processes and mechanisms that explain how life on Earth has persisted, changed and diversified over the last 3.5 billion years
- understand how models and theories have developed over time
- use science inquiry skills to design, conduct, evaluate and communicate investigations into heredity, gene technology applications, and population gene pool changes
- evaluate, with reference to empirical evidence, claims about heredity processes, gene technology, and population gene pool processes, and justify evaluations
A4BLY
In this unit, students
- understand the mechanisms by which plants and animals use homeostasis to control their internal environment in a changing external environment
- understand the ways in which infection, transmission and spread of disease occur in vector-borne diseases
- understand how biological models and theories have developed over time
- use science inquiry skills to design, conduct, evaluate and communicate investigations into organisms’ responses to changing environmental conditions and infectious disease
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