✨ Free preview
🎲

Variation in populations

Explain how mutation, meiosis and fertilisation generate the inherited variation that natural selection acts on.

⏱ 18 min❓ 9 questions

What you'll be able to do

  • ✔I can distinguish inherited from environmental variation and continuous from discontinuous variation
  • ✔I can explain how mutation, crossing over, independent assortment and random fertilisation create genetic variation
  • ✔I can explain why genetic variation helps a population survive a changing environment

How this works

  1. 1Read the short explanations first — they teach you what you need before each question.
  2. 2Answer each question, then tap Check. A right answer moves you on automatically; if it's wrong, you'll see a friendly explanation of why.
  3. 3Finish all 3 steps to see your score — sign in and subscribe to unlock the full lesson and save it.

What's inside

9 questions and 1 quick teaching card, including:

  • 🔘Multiple choice — Tap the answer you think is best, then check it.
  • ✅Select all that apply — More than one can be right — pick every option that fits.

👪Grown-up tip: sit alongside younger learners for the first few lessons. Read the questions together and chat about the explanations — that's where the real learning sticks.

Sign in and subscribe to unlock the full lesson and save your progress.

Curriculum: AC9S10U02, AC9S10U01