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MODULE 2: GENETICS, VARIATION AND NATURAL SELECTION (cont’d)
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES EXPLANATORY NOTES SUGGESTED PRACTICAL
ACTIVITIES
Aspects of Genetic Engineering (cont’d)
Students should be able to:
4.2. explain the basic steps An overview of the process
involved in Recombinant including the isolation of
DNA (rDNA) technology; genes; cloning of genes;
vectors. Use examples
including insulin
production.
4.3. discuss the successes and Concept of gene therapy.
challenges of gene therapy Use case study examples
in modern medicine; and, including cystic fibrosis.
4.4. discuss the implications of Medical, agricultural,
the use of genetically ethical and social
modified organisms on implications.
humans and the
environment.
5. Natural Selection
Students should be able to:
5.1. explain how Examples such as
environmental factors act resistance to antibiotics,
as forces of natural Biston betularia
selection; (peppered moth), the
Trinidadian guppies and
the Dominican anole.
5.2. explain how natural Directional, disruptive and
selection may be an agent stabilising selection;
of constancy or an agent of knowledge of appropriate
change; graphs is required.
5.3. discuss natural selection Darwin’s theory, its
as a mechanism of observations and
evolution; conclusions.
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