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Year 10 / GCSE · Science

Biology: Genes And Evolution

Year 10 / GCSE learners practise evolution and genetics gcse biology.

The activities include Analyse the Advantages and Disadvantages of Sexual and Asexual Reproduction, Analyse The Evidence For Evolution, Discuss the Evidence for Evolution, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, practice, teach, worksheet. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Analyse the Advantages and Disadvantages of Sexual and Asexual Reproduction
  • Analyse The Evidence For Evolution
  • Discuss the Evidence for Evolution
  • Explain DNA Extraction
  • Explain The Evidence For Evolution
  • Explain the Genome and its Impact on Modern Medicine
  • Understand DNA Extraction
  • Understand Speciation
  • Understand The Evidence For Evolution
  • Understand the Genome and its Impact on Modern Medicine
  • Understand Variation and the Role of Reproduction

Checked learning resources

  • Sexual and asexual reproduction

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak KS4 Biology lesson comparing sexual reproduction, which combines alleles from two parents and creates variation, with faster one-parent asexual reproduction that produces genetically identical offspring; it uses plan

  • Classification and reclassification: genetic evidence

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak KS4 Biology lesson comparing Linnaeus’s observable-characteristic system with modern reclassification using microscopy, molecular evidence and DNA sequences, including Woese’s three-domain model.

  • The fossil record provides evidence for evolution

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak KS4 Biology lesson explaining how fossil sequences, transitional forms and changes in organisms over time provide evidence for evolution, while also addressing why fossil records are incomplete.

  • The chemical structure of DNA

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak Year 10 Biology lesson explaining DNA as a two-stranded nucleotide polymer in a double helix, with sugar, phosphate and the complementary A-T and C-G base pairs used in the activity activity.

  • Genetic testing for healthcare

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak KS4 Biology lesson explaining how genetic testing identifies disease-associated alleles, supports risk assessment and enables personalised healthcare while introducing reliability and ethical considerations.

  • Strawberry DNA extraction demonstration

    National Human Genome Research Institute · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Directly playable NHGRI demonstration showing fruit mashing, detergent and salt extraction solution, filtration, cold alcohol precipitation and collection of visible DNA, matching the banana-DNA practical sequence in act

  • The evolution of new species

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak KS4 Biology lesson defining species and speciation, then explaining how isolation, environmental selection pressures, genetic variation and natural selection can form new species and contribute to extinction.

  • The genome

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak Year 10 Biology lesson defining DNA, chromosomes, genes and the genome, where genetic material is stored and how genomic similarity can be interpreted.