{"id":2,"date":"2022-07-26T20:20:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T19:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/n5bioevolution\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2022-10-26T10:06:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T09:06:26","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/n5bioevolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution of Species"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong>The following links offer some useful revision on Reproduction to support your learning:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bitesize\/guides\/ztn9y4j\/revision\/1\">BBC Bitesize &#8211; Evolution of Species<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bitesize\/guides\/ztn9y4j\/video\">BBC Bitesize Video &#8211; Evolution of Species<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>West OS &#8211; Evolution of Species<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/n5bioevolution\/uploads\/sites\/11695\/2022\/10\/26100512\/Key-Area-6-Evolution-of-a-Species.pdf\">Evolution of Species Summary Note<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>To help with your learning, you may also wish to try some of the following resources:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordwall.net\/resource\/3013084\/biology\/evolution-of-a-species\">Evolution of Species Wordwall Game<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quizlet.com\/44656418\/bi-n5-life-on-earth-key-area-6-flash-cards\/\">Evolution of Species Quizlet Game<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/n5bioevolution\/uploads\/sites\/11695\/2022\/10\/26100517\/Unit-3-Key-Area-6-Revision-Questions.pdf\">Evolution of Species PPQs<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/n5bioevolution\/uploads\/sites\/11695\/2022\/10\/26100521\/Unit-3-KA-6-Mark-Scheme.pdf\">Marking Scheme<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Within the National 5 Biology course, you will need to know:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>A mutation is a random change to genetic material.<\/li>\r\n<li>Mutations may be neutral, confer an advantage or a disadvantage to survival.<\/li>\r\n<li>Mutations are spontaneous and are the only source of new alleles.<\/li>\r\n<li>Environmental factors, such as radiation and some chemicals, can increase the rate of mutation.<\/li>\r\n<li>New alleles produced by mutation can result in plants and animals becoming better adapted to their environment.<\/li>\r\n<li>Variation within a population makes it possible for a population to evolve over time in response to changing environmental conditions.<\/li>\r\n<li>Species produce more offspring than the environment can sustain.<\/li>\r\n<li>Natural selection or survival of the fittest occurs when there are selection pressures.<\/li>\r\n<li>The best adapted individuals in a population survive to reproduce, passing on the favourable alleles that confer the selective advantage. These alleles increase in frequency within the population.<\/li>\r\n<li>Speciation occurs after part of a population becomes isolated by an isolation barrier, which can be geographical, ecological or behavioural. Different mutations occur in each sub-population.<\/li>\r\n<li>Natural selection selects for different mutations in each group, due to different selection pressures. Each sub-population evolves until they become so genetically different that they are two different species.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following links offer some useful revision on Reproduction to support your learning: BBC Bitesize &#8211; Evolution of Species BBC Bitesize Video &#8211; Evolution of Species West OS &#8211; Evolution of Species Evolution of Species Summary Note To help with your learning, you may also wish to try some of the following resources: Evolution of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/n5bioevolution\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Evolution of Species&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6619,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/n5bioevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/n5bioevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/n5bioevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/n5bioevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/n5bioevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/n5bioevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/n5bioevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/n5bioevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}