Slide Preview for 3 - Reproduction and Inheritance

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Use this slideshow to help you teach the 3rd topic from the EdExcel iGCSE (9-1) course. It covers: sexual vs asexual reproduction, fertilisation, the structure of a flower, reproduction in plants, pollination, seeds and how they grow, cloning plants, the male and female reproductive system, fertility and the role of hormones, the role of the placenta and umbilical cord, DNA and some basic facts about it, RNA vs DNA, how proteins are synthesised, how sex is determined by chromosomes, definitions of terms such as phenotype and allele, monohybrid cross diagrams, determining inheritance using punnett squares, family pedigree charts, codominance, cell growth through mitosis and meiosis, variation, environmental differences, mutating DNA, how the risk of mutations can be increased, the basics of evolution through natural selection.