Due Friday 15th January. I shall be looking for EFFORT in your work.
http://www.anorak.co.uk/288298/scare-stories/the-daily-mails-list-of-things-that-give-you-cancer-from-a-to-z.html/
Imagine you work for the Daily Mail’s PR department and have to reply to a number of worried people writing in scared that they will get cancer. You must write in a polite, professional style and assume that the worried reader failed their Biology O Level exams 25 years ago.
Grade B/A
Use this link to explain what a mutation is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/higher/biology/genetics_adaptation/mutations/revision/1/
Grade A/A*
Evaluate the evidence.
Analyse the risk described. If an actual experiment has been conducted, how “reliable”, “valid” and “precise” is the study? If the article quotes a scientist, quickly google his/her name and find out how reliable a source he/she is. What is he/she actually saying and might his/her words have been misrepresented?
- 3.29 You should understand that mutation is a rare, random change in genetic material that can be inherited
- 3.30 You should describe the process of evolution by means of natural selection
- 3.31 You should understand that many mutations are harmful but some are neutral and a few are beneficial
- 3.33 You should understand that the incidence of mutations can be increased by exposure to ionising radiation (for example gamma rays, X-rays and ultraviolet rays) and some chemical mutagens (for example chemicals in tobacco).
http://www.anorak.co.uk/288298/scare-stories/the-daily-mails-list-of-things-that-give-you-cancer-from-a-to-z.html/
Imagine you work for the Daily Mail’s PR department and have to reply to a number of worried people writing in scared that they will get cancer. You must write in a polite, professional style and assume that the worried reader failed their Biology O Level exams 25 years ago.
Grade B/A
Use this link to explain what a mutation is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/higher/biology/genetics_adaptation/mutations/revision/1/
Grade A/A*
Evaluate the evidence.
Analyse the risk described. If an actual experiment has been conducted, how “reliable”, “valid” and “precise” is the study? If the article quotes a scientist, quickly google his/her name and find out how reliable a source he/she is. What is he/she actually saying and might his/her words have been misrepresented?