9Aa Quick Check

Shalini has been doing her homework. Here is a question and below it is her answer.
9
A How can two brothers naturally have different eye colours?
Explain as fully as you can.

Each brother can get the eye colour of one of the parents.

Here is a marking scheme for the question.

Level Marking scheme

4 Describes the variation found in human characteristics.
5 Explains that the eye colour is inherited from parents.
6 Explains how sex cells fuse during fertilisation and that this causes mixing of the
information from the parents which in turn cause variation in characteristics.
7 Explains how genes are found in the nuclei of cells, how they are transferred from
parents to offspring and how the genes determine inherited characteristics.
8 Explains how alleles can be dominant or recessive and how receiving two recessive
alleles can cause a different characteristic compared with receiving at least one
dominant allele.

1 What level would you give Shalini?

2 Rewrite Shalini’s answer to obtain a higher level.

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