AQA GCSE Biology (8461) · AQA 8461
4.6 Inheritance, variation and evolution
Written & reviewed by James Millett — Biology (Imperial College London), PGCE Science (University of Cambridge).
Practice questions on Inheritance, variation and evolution
- Describe how the classification of living organisms changed when Carl Woese developed the … (4 marks, Describe)
- Explain why fossils are important as evidence for the theory of evolution by natural selec… (4 marks, Explain)
- Explain why scientists initially disagreed with Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by na… (4 marks, Explain)
- Explain why farmers use selective breeding to produce new varieties of wheat with higher g… (4 marks, Explain)
- Explain how natural selection can lead to evolution in a population of organisms. (4 marks, Explain)
- A farmer wants to produce a large number of offspring from a prize-winning cow. Explain wh… (4 marks, Explain)
- Describe the role of meiosis in sexual reproduction, including how it contributes to genet… (4 marks, Describe)
- Explain why sexual reproduction produces offspring with more genetic variation than asexua… (4 marks, Explain)
- Describe how mutations contribute to variation within a population, and explain why most m… (4 marks, Describe)
- Explain why organisms produced by asexual reproduction are genetically identical to their … (4 marks, Explain)
- Strawberry plants can reproduce both sexually and asexually. Describe the differences betw… (4 marks, Describe)
- Compare sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction in terms of the genetic variation pro… (4 marks, Compare)
- Explain why a population of bacteria can become resistant to an antibiotic through natural… (4 marks, Explain)
- Describe how the work of Carl Woese led to a new system of classification, and explain why… (4 marks, Describe)
- Explain how Gregor Mendel's work contributed to our understanding of how characteristics a… (4 marks, Explain)
- Explain how the Linnaean system classifies living organisms. (4 marks, Explain)
- Explain how the discovery of DNA helped scientists to understand evolution and classificat… (4 marks, Explain)
- Explain why the binomial system is used to name living organisms rather than using common … (4 marks, Explain)
- Explain why scientists use evolutionary trees when classifying living organisms. (4 marks, Explain)
- Compare the Linnaean system of classification with the three-domain system developed by Ca… (4 marks, Compare)
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