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Bitesize GCSE Biology

How you get things from your biological parents, how everyone is a little bit different, and how life forms have changed over billions of years

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Series 5: Inheritance, variation and evolution
1. Reproduction
Dr Alex Lathbridge breaks down the key facts about sexual and asexual reproduction.
24 Mar 2023,8 mins
Series 5: Inheritance, variation and evolution
2. Inheritance
How genetics determine biological sex and inherited health disorders.
24 Mar 2023,10 mins
Series 5: Inheritance, variation and evolution
3. Variation
Why variation happens within one species and the genetic and environmental causes.
24 Mar 2023,8 mins
Series 5: Inheritance, variation and evolution
4. Evolution
What evolution is and the four key stages of the process of natural selection.
24 Mar 2023,9 mins
Series 5: Inheritance, variation and evolution
5. Evidence for evolution
Dr Alex Lathbridge breaks down the different types of scientific evidence for evolution.
24 Mar 2023,10 mins
Series 5: Inheritance, variation and evolution
6. Changing organisms
How selective breeding and genetic engineering happens in a laboratory, pros and cons.
24 Mar 2023,11 mins
Series 5: Inheritance, variation and evolution
7. Classification
The Linnean System, the Three-Domain System and the Binomial System.
24 Mar 2023,10 mins